Ronald Ligtenberg
- Sense stimulating music events for deaf people and photography projects for blind people worldwide.
- Specialises in making impossible things possible.
- Motivates and inspires people to start thinking and act on possibilities in every situation.
- In high demand by Human Resourcing teams looking to improve diversity in their organisation.
Ronald Ligtenberg is an inspirational speaker and organiser of remarkable events unlike any other. He is a specialist in working and inspiring people with disabilities.
Ronald is the co-founder of the Open Senses network: a group of sensory practitioners and experts that organised a festival in London, including a symposium, workshops, multi-sensory club nights and installations, happening in 24 venues like V&A museum, National Gallery, and Truman Brewery. www.opensenses.org. He uses his expertise to create multi-sensory brand or user experiences.
He wrote a book (in Dutch) about Possibilizing. It includes 10 stories around 10 values about how to use a limitation as a source of inspiration.
His personal journey has brought him to the world of Social Entrepreneurship via the Experience Economy, which is all about Imagineering and on to Disability Policies.
His lectures make audiences see beyond boundaries and challenge themselves to see problems as opportunities. Ronald’s story reveals the unexpected results that pop up when you take a ‘limitation’ as a source of inspiration. He calls it ‘possibilizing’: to think and act on possibilities, in any circumstance.
Diversity Speaking For The Deaf & Blind In The Workplace
As the founder and CEO of the Skyway Foundation, Ronald organizes music events for deaf people all around the world in which the audience is treated to aromajockey’s, vibrating floors and invited to experience taste sensations. He also organises workshops using body language to communicate to deaf people. His 3 1/2 hour workshop has deaf people functioning as communication experts for corporate managers.
For blind people, Ronald sets up photography projects. His diversity in the workplace programmes has been delivered with great success to many companies including Barclays, Deloitte and the How To Academy.
Do you want to develop? Cause a problem! Failures, Problems, Limitations, Breakdowns:
“All our life, we are trying to avoid them. Our whole way of life is organised to work ourselves around problems or to prevent them. But what if you just dive in, or even cause them deliberately? It might just be the start of unexpected growth!”
Ronald is passionate about inspiring people to explore, grow and meet new challenges. He is available as a speaker to share his experiences and learnings from his own journey, conquering problems and creating new ones to solve. Ronald originates from Holland and is now located in London.