How to build a successful business around your disability
Disability Horizons contributor Nichola Daunton talks to James King, owner of Oliver James Garden Rooms and winner of the Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs 2013, about building a business around his disability.
Please could you tell Disability Horizons’ readers a bit about yourself and your business?
I’m a 47 year old father of three, living in Milton Keynes and I’ve been registered as blind since 1998. After leaving school, I started working on a building site as a bricklayer while also studying for my City and Guilds Bricklaying qualifications.
I realised quite early on that my main strength lay in organising other people rather than the physical art of bricklaying itself. So I started managing a team of builders and built several businesses up from there.
My Eureka moment regarding my business came on a winter’s day, when I was working at home. I thought I’d sit in our conservatory and do the paperwork. I opened the doors, walked across the cold floor and turned on the portable heaters. I went back a while later and it was still cold, so I turned on another heater and turned up the radiator.
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(http://disabilityhorizons.com/2014/02/build-successful-business-around-disability/)
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