Sarah Todd
Role: Chair of the Board of Directors
Throughout her career, Sarah has promoted equality, diversity and accessibility, supporting people to reach their potential and widening participation in education, training and employment.
As Workplace & Research Lead at Wellmind Health, she leads on evidence-based digital interventions that help individuals overcome barriers to work and learning, while enabling organisations to build healthier, more inclusive environments. This includes an SBRI-funded project to improve outcomes for disabled jobseekers, co-designed with disabled and neurodivergent users at every stage – treating co-production as a design method rather than a consultation exercise, and accessibility as a matter of usability and lived experience, not WCAG compliance alone.
She previously served as Service Delivery Director at Brain in Hand, developing a hybrid model combining digital self-management with specialist human support for neurodivergent people and those with anxiety-based mental health conditions. Sitting on the Senior Leadership Team, she led a national specialist network reaching students at more than 80% of UK universities, and built and scaled the operational delivery behind it – recruiting, training and managing a distributed team of mentors and support staff, and developing the systems and processes needed to deliver consistent support at national scale. She helped shape DSA strategy and funding, and supported institutions through the digital transformation of disability support.
She also brings practitioner experience from across education, training and workplace settings – as a Specialist Mentor delivering Non-Medical Help, and as a Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant. Beyond NADP, she is a Trustee of The Zone, a Plymouth charity supporting young people’s mental health, housing and wellbeing, and provides supported lodgings for young adults aged 16–24 facing barriers to education, training and employment.
Sarah’s approach is evidence-led: understanding support needs in depth, evaluating what provision actually delivers, and tracking outcomes through robust data and reporting. That discipline underpins consistency and quality in support services, and shapes how she approaches NADP’s strategic priorities.
As Chair, Sarah is focused on strengthening NADP’s governance, amplifying the voice of its members in national policy, and championing inclusive practice that adds real value to disabled students’ university experience.