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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to be chairing our session tomorrow/today Wednesday on stuttering, AI and the workplace! #HeardAI #AI

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow: our webinar with Dr Hope Gerlach-Houck - “Exploring the impact of AI in the workplace for people who stutter”

💌 Email [email protected]
for the link to join

Good luck to everyone taking part as an interviewer or interviewee this week! 💬

#PracticeInterview #Inclusion #ISAD

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50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · 10d

Dr Gerlach-Houck, Associate Professor at Western Michigan University, researches the intersections of ableism and stuttering. Recently, she co-authored the research paper 'Stuttering and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States' and serves on the Leadership team of the HeardAI project.

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50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · 23d

Still time to apply for the Operations & Finance Officer role with 50 Million Voices! Applications will close Sunday 21st September.

Check out the thread below for more details 👇

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our small and friendly team is expanding!

We're #hiring for a 6 month term freelance Operations & Finance Officer.

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you're looking for a part-time, purpose-led, home-working UK) opportunity, this could be the role for you!
Info & application process via our website: www.50millionvoices.org/operations-f...
If not, then please share with your networks. Thanks 🙏

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50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Aug 27

About the role:
- 14 hours a week with flexible timing for mutual convenience
- UK based remote working (from home)
- Responsibilities include a mixture of financial and operational support
- £18 per hour, negotiable

Find out more details and how to apply: www.50millionvoices.org/operations-f...

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Aug 23

I love it when we attract someone from a 'new' country to our global Practice #Interview events. It suggests we're reaching more communities & helping more people who #stutter! With 3 new ones below, our program has now reached people in 42 countries!

Thanks to everyone supporting us. Please share

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Aug 23

Exciting mix of applications so far from 11 countries, incl. 3 new- Gambia, Gibraltar & Latvia - for our 9th global Practice Interview event!

Spaces still available for #interviewees #interviewers & #employers.

Event FREE for people who stutter.

Apply via website: 50millionvoices.org

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Aug 12

Can’t believe I missed re-posting this after our special @50millionvoices.bsky.social day together on 31 July strategising & enjoying each other’s company!

Huge thanks to EY for hosting us.

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Aug 4

A brilliant strategy day for the 50MV team, hosted by EY at their London Bridge office!

It was energising to get together in person - especially welcoming our Global Coordinator, Shilpa Sagwal, who travelled all the way from India, and our trustee, Chris Gemmell, who came down from Newcastle.

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50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Aug 11

A huge thank you to everyone who joined and contributed!

#StutteringWorldCongress2025

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50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Aug 11

The session covered:
- Key lessons from our flagship Global Practice Interview Events for people who stutter
- Stories and best practice advice on how to interview successfully
- Several questions, including on cultural and legal differences and their impact on successful interview strategies

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thrilled w/ feedback on our session ‘Interviewing successfully with a stutter’ - & delighted 2 co-present in person w/ Shilpa Sagwal for the 1st time, after giving so many virtual talks together over past 5 years.

Wearing a T-Shirt w/ our #50MV logo felt pretty good too!

#StutteringWorldCongress

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Aug 11

The 15th International Stuttering Association World Congress for People who Stutter took place in Rovaniemi from 6-10 August.

50 Million Voices were delighted to be represented by our Founder & Chair, Iain Wilkie, and our Global Co-ordinator, Shilpa Sagwal.

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Redefining Stammering @redefinestammer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Lovely to be back in Victoria Park with the #makingwaves #stammeringprideflag team today for another #stammeringpride march - great turn out, enthusiasm & conversations with old friends & new (very much helped by Scatman’s Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)! Happy pride all!

Photograph of Patrick Campbell addressing participants ahead of the march. Patrick is wearing a grey T-shirt and blue jeans. He is pictured holding a red notebook & standing next to the #makingwaves stammering pride flag

Photograph of Sam Simpson, Kristel Kubart & Patrick Campbell (left to right) standing arm-in-arm in Victoria Park. Kristel has a #makingwaves #stammeringpride flag draped over her shoulders

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Jul 29

We’re equally delighted that you’ve joined our Trustee board Andrew!

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Jul 29

As Chair of 50 Million Voices, am delighted that talented Andrew Janes @cartivist.bsky.social
has joined our Board of Trustees - enhancing our collective skill set and sharing his lived experience of stammering at work. Welcome Andrew!
#Governance #OKToStammer #StammeringTalent

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Jul 28

We’re excited and proud to welcome Andrew Janes as a new trustee of 50 Million Voices!

Andrew has stammered since early childhood and has been involved with the stuttering community in the UK and internationally for over twenty years.

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Jun 23

Please read and share. This kind of rejection of people who stammer is all too common. Thank you!

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Jun 23

We firmly stand behind Irmo Stijnberg whose entry into the European Film Festival was rejected as they didn’t consider stammering a disability.

Please read and share this brilliant open letter written by the charity Stamily to the director of the festival.

#equity #inclusion

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Jun 14

Enjoyed grasping this opportunity on behalf of @50millionvoices.bsky.social to help challenge the bias against #stammering voices in the global workplace. Feedback has been very positive! Great credit to the BBC Stammering Support Network for organising & leading the event. #OKToStammer

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Jun 6

We’re joining the BBC’s 'Stammering and Job Interviews' panel on 9 June, 13:30 UK.

Our Founder and Chair, Iain Wilkie, will share insights from our global Practice Interview Programme.

🎙️ Don’t miss it: bbc.zoom.us/j/95204538102

#stammering #inclusion

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · May 28

"I was baring my vulnerability, my stuttering vulnerability, and I knew there was no way back."

In this podcast, I share stories of my lived experience of stuttering at work & how @50millionvoices.bsky.social is helping more employers to benefit from the strengths of colleagues who stutter. Enjoy!

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · May 28

🎙️ Our founder Iain Wilkie joins Tom Scharstein on the Stuttering WORKS! podcast by World Stuttering Network.

From his career at EY to 50 Million Voices, Iain shares how stuttering can be a strength and how we’re helping shift employer mindsets globally.

🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6B...

Stuttering WORKS with Iain Wilkie

YouTube video by World Stuttering Network

www.youtube.com

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Jun 10

Super article from mentee Lauren about how the ASC mentoring scheme is helping mentees age 18-25 who stammer.

If you're 18-25 in the UK and have a stammer, this free mentoring scheme is worth checking out!

Action for Stammering Children @stammeringchildren.org · Jun 5

“I used to want to get rid of my stammer. Now, I don’t.” 💬

Lauren Burton shares how the ASC Mentoring Scheme helped her embrace her voice & stammer with pride.

📖 Read her story: buff.ly/XNk0BkA
📝 Apply to be a mentee: buff.ly/4CPIEBP

#StammeringAwareness

Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · May 28

"I was baring my vulnerability, my stuttering vulnerability, and I knew there was no way back."

In this podcast, I share stories of my lived experience of stuttering at work & how @50millionvoices.bsky.social is helping more employers to benefit from the strengths of colleagues who stutter. Enjoy!

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · May 28

🎙️ Our founder Iain Wilkie joins Tom Scharstein on the Stuttering WORKS! podcast by World Stuttering Network.

From his career at EY to 50 Million Voices, Iain shares how stuttering can be a strength and how we’re helping shift employer mindsets globally.

🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6B...

Stuttering WORKS with Iain Wilkie

YouTube video by World Stuttering Network

www.youtube.com

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50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · May 12

Wishing our friends across the pond a happy National Stuttering Awareness Week!

This year’s theme, “Unapologetically Me,” celebrates the power of authenticity, pride, and visibility within the stuttering community.

Here’s to embracing who we are and stuttering proudly, everywhere!

Graphic with green background and a white circle in the middle. In the middle of the circle are two speech bubbles; one is purple, the other gold. Below the circle it has the heading 'National Stuttering Awareness Week. Below the title it has the dates '12 - 18 May, 2025'.

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Redefining Stammering @redefinestammer.bsky.social · May 6

What a life-giving evening @citylit.bsky.social in conversation with Josh St Pierre! Wonderful to see such a great turn out & level of interest. Very much enjoyed the thought-provoking Q&A questions, buzz in the gallery over drinks & welcoming new faces to the community #transformativebelonging

Photograph taken as everyone was arriving of the holding PowerPoint slide entitled ‘Towards a world that stammers’ with three empty seats laid out for the panelists in the foreground

Photograph of Sam Simpson giving the opening introductions. Sam, a white woman in her fifties with grey, bobbed hair, is standing at the lectern & holding a microphone in her right hand. The holding PowerPoint slide is pictured behind her & the heads of members of the audience can be seen in the foreground

Photograph of Joshua St Pierre, a young white man, standing at the lectern & presenting. The title PowerPoint slide is pictured to the right of him behind three chairs prepared for a later panel discussion

Panellists (from left to right) Joshua St Pierre, Sam Simpson and Patrick Campbell are sat in chairs around a small circular table with three bottles of water on it. Behind them is the title PowerPoint slide: “Towards a World that Stammers” - white letters on a pink background

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intandem @intandem.bsky.social · Apr 28

Only just spotted this @iainwilkie.bsky.social - we’re equally delighted to have your voice & perspective represented in the book & that you were able to join us at the launch event! #SupervisioninSpeechandLanguageTherapy #MakingWaves 🌊🌊🌊

Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Dec 4

Delighted & proud to have contributed a stammering related chapter to this ground-breaking book on #SupervisionInSpeechandLanguageTherapy! Very enjoyable launch event meeting wonderful people & hearing about the life-changing impact made by Speech & Language Therapists in many different ways! #SLTs

Redefining Stammering @redefinestammer.bsky.social · Nov 24

Great stammering representation in this new book with chapters sharing personal stories & professional wisdom about the benefits of 1:1 & group #supervision from the perspectives of clients who stammer, stammering therapists & participants of a mentoring programme for young adults who stammer

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Apr 17

Super proud for @50millionvoices.bsky.social to be finalists for @businessdisability.bsky.social 'Global Disability Inclusion Award' alongside Coca-Cola & HSBC. Huge thanks to everyone involved! #OKToStutter #purpose #DisabilitySmartAwards2025

Business Disability Forum @businessdisability.bsky.social · Apr 17

If you want to see global disability inclusion in practice, look no further than the finalists for our Global Disability Inclusion Award: @50millionvoices.bsky.social, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and HSBC.

Read about their projects: ow.ly/m1VY50VuHXI

#DisabilitySmartAwards2025

Disability Smart Awards 2025 branded card for the finalists in the Global Disability Inclusion category, with their logos in a line: 50 Millions Voices, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and HSBC.

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Apr 9

Having had a stammer from age 7, it felt very special to be invited to the Houses of Parliament to attend Action for Stammering Children's important and enjoyable launch event last week in support of children who stammer.
Thank you to Ria Bernard and the ASC team!
#OKToStammer

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Apr 9

1 in 12 children in the UK stammer, yet many don’t get the support they need.

Last week, Action for Stammering Children launched their new report at Westminster, calling for action with 7 key recommendations.

We’re proud to support this vital campaign to improve support for children who stammer.

📸 Pictured at the event: our Chair Iain Wilkie with Dame Jane Roberts (ASC Chair), Ria Bernard (ASC CEO), and Kirsten Howells (Stamma Deputy CEO).

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Iain Wilkie @iainwilkie.bsky.social · Apr 5

Excited to be inviting applications for 2 new #trustee roles for @50millionvoices.bsky.social ! We're an ambitious award winning UK charity w/ a global reach (39 countries) transforming the world of work for people who #stutter, allies & employers. Pls see links below for role & application info.

50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Apr 4

As we move into our next phase of growth, we’re looking to expand our Board from 4 to 6 #trustees. We welcome applications from people who stutter and allies alike, and especially individuals with global experience.

Find out more and apply: www.50millionvoices.org/new-trustees/

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50 Million Voices @50millionvoices.bsky.social · Mar 10

Thrilled & proud for @50millionvoices.bsky.social to be shortlisted for the 'GlobalDisabilityInclusionAward' in these highly prestigious #DisabilitySmartAwards2025 #OKToStutter

Business Disability Forum @businessdisability.bsky.social · Mar 10

We're delighted to announce the finalists of the #DisabilitySmartAwards2025! Meet the finalists: ow.ly/rKry50VeVIH

Disability Smart Awards 2025 graphic, with blue and purple stars against a lilac background.

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