Mary Daniel has been with Link Up Employment Services since January 1996. She is currently working as an employment consultant, assisting people with disabilities to return to the workforce by helping them with their job searches and connecting them with employers. Mary has also held positions at Link Up as a Training Consultant and Recruitment Coordinator.

Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts degree specializing in Therapeutic Recreation, as well as a college degree in Community Recreational Leadership Training Program. She is currently studying part-time at George Brown College in the Career Work & Counseling Program. Mary is also a member of Trillium Toastmasters and has recently earned her Advanced Toastmasters Members Badge (ATM).

Mary has a good understanding of working with people with various disabilities from pre-school to older adults, in the fields of employment and recreation. Not only does she have working knowledge in this area, she is also categorized as being disabled by society. Her condition is achondroplasia which is another word for dwarfism. This means she has an average-size trunk with small limbs. She is also hard of hearing, for which she wears a hearing-aid.

Through the years of having a disability and working with many people with disabilities, Mary has developed the resources to understand what accommodations are needed by those living with physical, hearing, vision, psychiatric and learning disabilities.

Mary has been a highly respected and fascinating trainer, working with Lauri Sue Robertson for the past  fourteen years.   Participants in workshops where Mary has spoken have frequently commented on the value of the information she has shared with them. Very few people know anyone with achondroplasia, or any other form of dwarfism, well enough to ask questions about the conditions, so the insights Mary provides are always useful. She uses humour and displays a strong sense of self-awareness in her presentations.