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Valuing Everyone's Differences For Greatest Success!

Becoming Fearlessly Different!

From Special Education to Broadway's Biggest Stage

Past clients include Nordstrom, Pfizer, BrightHouse, APRA, The Kennedy Center, LEAD Conference, and more.

• From Special Education To Broadway
• Founding Artistic Director of the National Disability Theatre
• Featured by NY Times, the TODAY show, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and more.
• Past clients include Nordstrom, Pfizer, BrightHouse, APRA, The Kennedy Center, LEAD Conference, and more.

As an autistic and legally blind person, it was always made clear to Mickey the many things he was incapable of doing. But Mickey did them all anyway—and he succeeded because of, not despite, his autism. 

He became the first autistic actor to play the lead role in the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, landed the title role in the play Amadeus, and founded the National Disability Theatre. 

Mickey faced untold obstacles along the way, but his story ends in triumph.

Mickey inspires all people—autistic and non-autistic alike—that the things that make us different are often our biggest strengths.

As an autistic and legally blind person Mickey Rowe believes that when we design for accessibility, we help everyone to perform at their best, not just disabled folks. Mickey has had to advocate for himself his whole life as an autistic and legally blind person, yet becoming better at advocating for oneself and one’s company is a skill we all would benefit from. When we embrace all of our differences and value the things that make our colleagues' lived experiences different from our own, we are better able to collaborate with each other, embracing all of our different strengths. In this keynote, Mickey share's his own lived experience before emboldening participants to value their own differences and the differences of their colleagues and dares guests to advocate for themselves and others so they can truly perform at their best.

Mickey has been featured in the New York Times, the TODAY show, PBS, Vogue, Playbill, NPR, CNN, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, Forbes, on Smarter in Seconds. He is endorsed as a recommended speaker by the National Organization for Youth Safety.

Past clients include Nordstrom, Pfizer, BrightHouse, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Kennedy Center, Yale University, Columbia University, Disability Rights Washington, The Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, and more.

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