Amandipp Singh launched Enabled Talent in 2025 with a goal to remove bias against people with disability from the hiring process
Amandipp Singh knows firsthand how challenging it can be navigating a world not built for people with disabilities.
Born in India with partial sight, Singh worked his way through school and, later, his working life, struggling within a system that assumes everyone can see.
To sighted people, and others who don’t live with disabilities, he puts it this way: “Try working for a day with your eyes closed, not being able to speak or hear, or not being able to utilize your keyboard to type,” said Singh, who relocated to Canada in 2023.
“None of that makes us less talented, less passionate, less dedicated, less hardworking.”
Amandipp Singh is the founder of Enabled Talent, a business that aims to help break down employment barriers for people with disabilities. Image: LinkedIn.com/AmandippSingh
He always believed things could be different if some tools were created to help make their education and employment journeys more accessible.
It turns out that Singh was just the person to make that happen.
In 2025, he launched Enabled Talent, an online platform that aims to make the job-searching process more equitable for people living with disabilities.
Using artificial intelligence (AI), the platform helps users optimize their résumés and offers personalized interview coaching. Users can also connect with peers who have gone through similar journeys for support and mentorship.
Employers can use the platform to be matched with skilled applicants that meet their workforce needs. Applicants’ résumés are scored and ranked based on skill, removing bias from the screening process.
Too often, employers may want to hire employees with disabilities, but they just don’t know how or what tools to use to do it, Singh said.
“And then there is this pre-formed bias that anything related to integration of people with disabilities or any other underprivileged communities into workforces is a government thing, or it is a non-profit thing,” he added.
Singh argues that leaving disabled people out of the workforce is not only unjust, but it’s a big hit to Canada’s economy.
Nearly 27 per cent of the Canadian population — or one out of every four people — is considered disabled. Globally, that equates to more than 500 million people “who are working age, who, despite having education or skills, are not part of the workforce,” Singh said.
Think of it this way, Singh said. The English astrophysicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking used a speech-generating device to communicate after a motor neuron disease took away his ability to speak. Imagine if Hawking was born in a country without access to sophisticated technology. Would the world still have benefitted from Hawking’s numerous scientific contributions?
“How many Stephen Hawkings might be waiting if we give the the same kind of support and resources to other folks in the world as well?” Singh said.
After launching Enabled Talent last year, Singh has since branched out with pilot projects in Africa, where his company was accepted into the UNICEF Startup Lab, Saudi Arabia and Spain.
Before selecting his next launch area, Singh conducts detailed community research, connecting with local politicians, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and other stakeholders to gauge a community’s willingness to embrace the initiative.
He found his next target demographic in Sudbury, which he describes as “one of the most proactive communities” that’s “highly supportive and open to change and new ideas,” launching a pilot project there on April 8.
Based out of the NORCAT innovation centre, Enabled Talent will bring on an estimated five to eight full-time employees between April and September, followed by about 10 to 15 students from Laurentian University and Cambrian College.
“The goal would be to bring in some more students with disabilities, like people with lived experience, working alongside us as co-designers on different projects,” said Singh, who also plans to relocate to Sudbury.
One of those projects includes an inclusive office space concept that will lean on best practices gathered from Japan, South Korea, Austria and Germany, which will implement technology that helps integrate people with disabilities into the workplace.
He said he hopes to start the search for an office location by June, and will start on the project within the next year.
To fund this endeavour, Singh has accessed some grant funding, including from the UNICEF Startup Lab, NORCAT has pitched in some funds, and they have already secured a few clients, which is generating some revenue. Eventually, Singh said, he plans to fundraise and access some government funding.
The Sudbury pilot project will be monitored closely for a year, and other regions Singh has identified for expansion include Niagara, Hamilton and Brampton.
Greater Sudbury is an ideal spot for the pilot because the region represents one of the highest densities of people who are on unemployment programs like the Ontario Disability Support Program, which the province runs at an annual cost of $6 billion, Singh said.
With Enabled Talent, he believes they can work with someone who has, for example, visual impairment, identify what type of industry they could work in, pinpoint the training and skill development they need, and figure out what type of accessibility support they need to achieve it.
Through this process he believes Enabled Talent could help between 700 and 1,500 people within the next year, getting them off government assistance programs and integrating them into the workforce.
“Even if 300 to 500 people are moving into employment every year, that will be a very good start, considering they’ll be adding value into the GDP, and the government funding into income replacement programs will be getting reduced,” Singh said.
Singh praised the work of local organizations already assisting people with disabilities, and he emphasized that he’s not looking to replace their efforts. But he believes Enabled Talent can offer a more integrated approach so that the entire system works more efficiently for the people who need it.
“We don’t replace or come into the work they do, but we just bring in an additional layer of technology support for all the parties involved,” Singh said. “And that is where I see that it won’t be us doing it; it will be all of us doing it.”
