Our Founder and Lead Consultant brings a lifetime of experience as a Person with a disAbility to the firm. Born with a degenerative bone disease, he has been a wheelchair user since 1985. He has also been diagnosed with a significant and permanent hearing loss.

Dr. Wagoner uses his personal experience to help educate others on the need for ALL people to have equal access. Dr. Wagoner earned his Masters and Doctorate Degrees in Pastoral Counseling from the New England Theological Institute and Seminary.

He is one of only 150 people, nationwide, to be trained by the Disability Rights, Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) as part of an intensive, two part training through a joint project of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and is a member of the ADA Training and Implementation Network. He is also trained by the United States Department of Justice as a Mediator for Americans with Disabilities Act matters through the Key Bridge Foundation of Arlington, VA., the sole contractor for the US Department of Justice on ADA mediation issues.

He speaks regularly to groups, large and small, on the ADA and Disability related issues. Known for his relaxed, common sense approach, liberally mixed with humor, his audiences have included business and advocacy groups alike.  Dr. Wagoner is a participant in the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, Disability Leaders Network.  In 1993 he was selected as a participant in People First - A Report to the President.

Dr. Wagoner has addressed Governors, Judges, Legislators and Presidents on the ADA and Disability policy and he testified before the United States Senate in 1991.

View Photo of Dr. Wagoner with President George W. Bush

An active member of his community, Dr. Wagoner was twice elected to serve on the Town of Hartford, VT Board of Selectmen, serving for 5 years, two years as Vice-Chairman. He is very socially and politically active on the local, State and National levels.

He is a member of the Board of Overseers for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and serves on the Dartmouth College, 504/ADA Advisory Committee.

He has been interviewed by the local, national and international media, including the ABC Nightly News, and has been published in several advocacy, business and human resource magazines, including the September 2000 issue of the EEOC Review and the fall 2000 issue of Insight, an Australian publication focused on disability rights issues.

Over the course of his life Dr. Wagoner worked briefly as a Radio Disc Jockey and has spent nearly 21 years working with State and local Police Departments and Emergency Service agencies in the field of Emergency Communications. He is a former member of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officers (APCO) National ADA Advisory Committee.

Dr. Wagoner is married, has a young son and resides in a scenic New England community. He relaxes by spending time with his family, traveling and singing semi-professionally with a Barbershop Quartet.

He has participated in numerous 10K road races and is the first wheelchair user to ever finish the 26-mile charity ride for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

Dr. Wagoner was nominated for the 2001
Paul G. Hearne/American Association of People with Disabilities
Leadership Award.