Challenge your thinking.
Strengthen your workforce.

A passionate disability advocate, award-winning business leader, speaker, and podcast host, Julie Sowash is a true innovator in the DEIB and TA/HR field. As Co-Founder and Executive Director of Disability Solutions, she and her team have partnered with over 70 companies of every size and industry, including PepsiCo, Synchrony, and Bristol Myers Squibb, who value people with disabilities by helping them implement outcome-based programs and solutions throughout the engagement, hiring and retention process.  

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She supports the building and deployment of strategic solutions by first assessing current structures, systems, policies, and processes to identify areas for improvement. Julie provides a real-world perspective to her work as both someone living with a disability and a professional having worked in public, private, and vendor environments. She uses this experience to focus on mapping and identifying touch points, barriers, and gaps in the engagement process, including within technology, data, and vendor infrastructure. She then uses these findings to develop targeted strategies that will cater to an organization’s unique needs while focusing on creating greater opportunities for people with disabilities in every aspect of an organization.  

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Julie regularly speaks at state, national, and international conferences, including the United Nations Day of Persons with Disabilities Celebration and DisruptHR, focusing on topics such as compliance and disability inclusion. She is the Co-Host of the Crazy and the King podcast with Torin Ellis, discussing diversity, equity, and inclusion in everyday life. She leads Ability, Stronger, the DEIB strategy for Ability Beyond. She was also recognized as one of the Top 100 in Talent Acquisition Technology by TA Tech in 2021 and one of the Top 100 DEIB professionals by Untapped in 2022. 

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Julie has her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Indiana University. She has worked as a disability and employment leader for over fifteen years. Julie lives in Columbus, Indiana, with her husband, three children, and their dogs. 

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