Our President
Our President
Randy G. Wagoner
President & Lead Consultant
Our President brings a lifetime of experience as a Person with a Disability to the firm. He was born with a degenerative bone disease (X-Link Hypophosphatemic Rickets), and has been a wheelchair user since 1985. He has also been diagnosed with a significant and permanent hearing loss.
His life experiences have helped him to earn Degrees in Disability Studies and Education and he uses his education and personal experience to help to motivate and inform others on disability culture, equal access and universal design.
Mr. Wagoner is one of only 150 people, nationwide, to be trained by DREDF as part of an intensive, two part training through a joint project of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and is a member of the ADA Training and Implementation Network.
--Phase I Training Certificate-- ** --Phase II Training Certificate--
He is trained by the United States Department of Justice as a Mediator for Americans with Disabilities Act matters through the Key Bridge Foundation of Arlington, VA., the US DoJ contractor on ADA mediation issues. He continues his relationship with the Federal ADA Implementation and Enforcement agencies through the National Association of ADA Coordinators.
He speaks regularly to groups across the country on the ADA and Disability related issues. Known for his relaxed, common sense approach, liberally mixed with humor, his audiences have included business and advocacy groups alike.
Wagoner has participated in the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, Disability Leaders Network and is the former Coordinator of Accessibility Services for the State of Vermont and is a former member of the New Hampshire Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities. In 1993 he was selected as a participant in People First - A Report to the President.
He has addressed Governors, Judges, Legislators and Presidents on the ADA and
Disability policy and he testified alongside Justin Dart, Rick Douglas and Sandra Swift Parrino, before the United States Senate in June, 1992 (Digest Page D820 - "Rehabilitation Act") concerning the ADA and the Re-authorization of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. He is honored to have, on three occasions, been invited to be the guest of the President at the White House in recognition of his work related to the ADA and access for People with Disabilities.
In 2003, Wagoner was accepted as an Adjunct Faculty Member with Round Table Group. Round Table Group is a Washington, DC based Think Tank and is the nation’s leading expert services firm which provides expert witnesses to attorneys, customized research to investment managers, and corporate education to clients around the world.
An active member of his community, Mr. Wagoner was twice elected to serve on the Town of Hartford, VT Board of Selectmen, serving for 5 years, two years as Vice-Chairman. He is very socially and politically active on the local, State and National levels.
He is a member of the Board of Overseers for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and served on the Dartmouth College, 504/ADA Advisory Committee. He is the former Chair of the Vermont state Accessibility Task Force and the City of Lebanon, NH ADA Compliance Committee. He currently sits on the New Hampshire Department of Safety - Homeland Security/Emergency Management - Special Populations Committee.
He is often interviewed by the national and international media, including the LA Times, Forbes Small Business Magazine and ABC Nightly News. He has been published in several advocacy, business and human resource magazines, including the September 2000 issue of the EEOC Review, the fall 2000 issue of Inspire, an Australian publication focused on disability rights issues, and is a Featured Expert in the February 2004 issue of Commercial Builders & Architects Magazine.
He is currently working on two book projects;
a solo project based on one of his most popular lectures and; a collaboration with several well known psychologists.
His Textbook
"The Americans with Disabilities Act,
Employment Discrimination Issues for the 90's "
is published through the National Business Institute.
Other Published Articles Include:
Interacting with People with Disabilities
"What do we call them?"
.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance
Fiction vs. Facts
.
Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Consultants
How to Avoid the Snake Oil Salesmen
.
Speaking for the "Unfit"
A Commentary on Disability, the Holocaust and
the Modern Eugenics Movement.
Over the course of his life he worked as a Radio Disc Jockey and has spent over 28 years working with State and local Police Departments and Emergency Service agencies in the field of Emergency Communications and he is also a Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Counselor. He is an organizer and founding member of the Hanover NH local Police Union and serves as a Regional Vice President for the New England Police Benevolent Association (NEPBA). He is a former member of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officers (APCO) National ADA Advisory Committee. He currently serves on APCO's Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) National Training Standards Sub-Committee as their ADA Expert.
He is married, has two young children and resides in a scenic New England town not far from Dartmouth College. He relaxes by spending time with his family, traveling and singing Barbershop Quartet music. He participated in numerous 10K road races in the early 90's and was the first wheelchair user to ever finish the 26-mile charity marathon for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
Randy G. Wagoner was nominated for the 2001
Paul G. Hearne/American Association of People with Disabilities Leadership
Award.
