Seema Flower

Seema is an energetic, engaging and passionate Visual Awareness and Disabilities expert. A strategic thinker, with strong leadership, consultancy and project management skills.

She is Founder and Managing Director of Blind Ambition – a consultancy with a difference, aiming to create inclusivity. Seema has delivered training for leading organisations such as : Facebook, Microsoft, Marks & Spencers, John Lewis, Kew Gardens, Saatchi & Saatchi, Arriva, Crown Estates and University College London.

Her training to medical students, retail and business personnel, has raised awareness and made businesses disability confident and inclusive. She is committed to helping others, from training staff within schools and colleges, to other service providers, as well as empowering vulnerable youth in prisons to reach their full potential in spite of the constraints of being incarcerated. Seema is an inspirational and experienced professional, advocate and disability rights champion who has enthused many people to achieve their full ambition and potential through telling her own story. She has been registered blind since she was 9 years old, however this has not stopped her building a successful chain of businesses and property portfolio.

She has 12 years experience of running her own service based businesses in Central London, 10 years experience of working as an Education Officer for the RNIB, 5 years working as a Careers Advisor in West London and 20 years as a Private Landlord. She has developed resilience and a unique gift for inspiring others through the many challenges she has overcome daily and over the past four decades of living with blindness. Seema is also a qualified coach and career counsellor. She brings a wealth of experience and a truly unique insight into the Disability and Visual Awareness field as well as strategies for improving the experiences of those vulnerable and excluded groups in society. Her strength in resilience was demonstrated by her response to Covid-19. She switched to virtual training delivery and launched a series of free zoom webinars for visually impaired jobseekers in partnership with RNIB. These webinars have been there to provide support and advice. They’ve featured various charities and experts, offering advice on technology for the visually impaired, direct payments, changes in SEND Law and much more. Seema is a recognised entrepreneurial visionary who has contributed business insight with previous UK Disabilities Minister Justin Tomlinson, Easy Group’s Richard Shackleton, New Covent Garden Soup’s Founder and many more.

In recognition of her achievements, she is listed in the Shaw Trust #DisabilityPower100 for 2020 list and won London 2018 Venus Awards for Inspirational Woman of the Year (dubbed by Channel 4 as the Working Women’s Oscars).

Seema is confident and astute with excellent communication skills which have enabled her to become a media personality and influencer. She is in regular demand from the BBC and other media organisations for TV, Radio, online and print interviews to discuss disability issues and associated entrepreneurial challenges and effective strategies for overcoming these challenges.

She has a unique and fresh perspective and a message which resonates with audiences across the country. ‘I aspire to reach as many groups and individuals as possible with an impactful message that has become our mark with the aim of reducing the inequalities and social isolation that many face within our society.’ Seema Flower - Founder; Blind Ambition