Community & Engagement
Foster authentic community engagement with your local disability community to drive impact and collaboration.
Inclusive Innovation
Teach inclusive design practices in new mobility to design WITH people with disabilities instead of for.
Technical Excellence
Lead education on standards in accessibility to build accessible designs that go above and beyond.
Talent & Culture
To build a more accessible future, we need people with disabilities at the table to lead that transformation through inclusive workforce development.
Alan Hejl (he/him/his) is the founder and lead Accessibility Consultant at Spark Access. With a goal to improve accessibility and disability inclusion across the mobility industry for people with disabilities, Spark Access layers solutions for sparking inclusive innovation across products, services, and employment initiatives.
Accessibility and removing barriers is a personal passion of his, as he identifies with chronic nerve pain & neurodiversity and has a partner who is paralyzed and a manual wheelchair user. Outside of work, when he isn’t cooking or gardening, Alan serves with the Ferndale Accessibility & Inclusion Advisory Commission for the city of Ferndale, Michigan, serves as a Board Member of Michigan Disability Rights Coalition (MDRC), and participates as an active member with Detroit Disability Power.”
Ferndale Mayor Melanie Piana cites Alan as “a driving force in the Master Plan and the Non-Motorized Master Plan”, and “a calm, passionate, and compassionate voice in really advocating for disability rights.” for his volunteer work with the City of Ferndale.
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