Samer Sfeir
Managing Director, ProAbled
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“Innovation has led technology, food, and many other fields to great improvements. How can we create strategies to leverage innovation for taking disability inclusion to the next level?”
Samer Sfeir is a Lebanon-based social entrepreneur and the managing director of ProAbled, a resource center for innovative disability inclusion solutions. Through his work with ProAbled, he helps people around the world rethink how they approach disability inclusion. ProAbled collaborates with educational institutions on courses and workshops that change culture among students and instructors; it also provides the private sector with consultancy and training on accessibility and coaches people with disabilities in career advancement and employment.
Samer left work as a computer engineer in 2012 to pursue a master’s degree in business administration degree from the American University of Beirut and became certified in social entrepreneurship from INSEAD. He is the managing director and cofounder of ProAbled, M Social Catering, and shareQ. He is also a founding member and vice president of the Lebanese Social Enterprise Association and a university instructor in entrepreneurship. He has provided consulting, training, and coaching to companies, nonprofits, and universities in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Samer wants to see a world where groups like ProAbled don’t have to exist, where disability inclusion and equal access exists widely in schools, universities, at work, in social activities, and in the fibers of society. He believes that by combining purpose and vision with empathy, love, gratitude, faith, and character, we can all use our skills to find solutions to the inequities that exist today.