Interview: Mike Adams OBE, CEO of Purple

'We have to win the commercial argument as well as hearts and minds'

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The insurance sector faces a huge opportunity but needs to get much more disability friendly first. We speak with Mike Adams about customers, employees and his own experience of taking out insurance

Mike Adams is on a mission to change the conversation on disability. He wants to demonstrate to insurers - and UK business as a whole - the value of being disability friendly. To encourage organisations to understand that it's not only the right thing for society, it's also the right thing for business.  With this overriding goal in mind, he has transformed Purple over recent years from a regional business into a national not-for-profit organisation. Purple offers support to businesses that choose to get involved in the Department for Work & Pensions' (DWP) Disability Confident programme...

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