Sequel Ventures
Our Role Investor, Advisor
Miles Ridden 1,000 on horseback through Colombia
TED Talk Views 3 Million +
Global Impact 1 Billion People living with disabilities (15% of the world’s population)
Caroline Casey is an award-winning disability activist and social entrepreneur. Since taking the life-changing decision at 28 to leave her career as a management consultant, Caroline has been committed to building a global movement for inclusive business, that recognizes the value of the 1 billion people in the world with a disability across the full business value chain. She has spent the last 18 years working with and speaking to over 500,000 business leaders to revolutionise their approach to business inclusion.
Caroline is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and former advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, Ashoka Fellow, Eisenhower Fellow, TED Speaker and Counsellor for One Young World. Caroline’s solo trip across India on elephant-bank was the subject of the National Geographic Documentary Elephant Vision, her TED talk, which details her extraordinary personal story of coming to terms with her hidden disability has reached over 3 million views.
Caroline is the founder of the Dangerous Dreamers Foundation whose mission is to support inclusive business. In addition to Dangerous Dreamers, Caroline is founder of business inclusion company Binc, the founding team behind the recent #valuable campaign and founder of social enterprise ‘Kanchi’ which aimed to change business practices around disability, creating The Ability Awards, a business methodology building and recognising best practice and leadership in business disability inclusion.
I met Bill 10 years ago through the Eisenhower fellowships. At that time, Bill was the only CEO of a Fortune Company that agreed to take a meeting with me and talk about the disability business case. For me, that demonstrates best his willingness to take a risk and a curiousness that is rare. Over the past decade Bill has become one of my most challenging and patient mentors. He has guided and pushed me and never given up on me – always being the essential trusted hand on your back that all entrepreneurs and disrupters need.
Though he is a financial investor in #valuable and Dangerous Dreamers, it is his advice, support and decisive strategic insight that we have gained most from.
There is one piece of advice that I will never ever forget Bill giving me years ago, one I adamantly argued with at the time. “Casey, sometimes 80% is good enough – just do it” – And he was right!
Caroline Casey