Hello, I'm Manuela Saragossa. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Coming up, the former trader who made it big on Wall Street despite his disability.

As I started to mature in my career, I began to realize how much of an asset disability actually was, where, frankly, I'd get more attention because I was different.

It may have worked for him, but would it work for others?

We ask, what is the best way of getting more disabled people into the workforce?

Tone from the top makes a massive difference.

And part of that is about leaders making a personal connection

and recognising a personal connection with disability.

That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC.

There are an estimated 1 billion people with a disability in the world,

and chances are if you're one of them, you're probably

unemployed. Statistics bear this out. In the US, for example, employment levels may be at record

highs at the moment, but in 2018, only 29% of working age Americans with a disability participated

in the workforce. And globally, the International Labour Organisation estimates that unemployment

among people with a disability is as high as 80% in some countries. In the UK, meanwhile,

disabled people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people,

which may explain why this week the UK's disability charity scope launched a campaign

to change perceptions amongst businesses.

My top tips for employers would be to have the open conversations with the person you're

thinking of employing or you have employed.

Allow disabled people the chance to try and do something

and have that possibility.

Just making everything as easy as possible from the recruitment stage through to the

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