Shay Edmonds
Founder - Reinvention Works
Shay Edmonds is the founder of Reinvention Works, a human development company focused on what happens after life changes in ways we never planned for.
After losing most of his vision as an adult, Shay experienced firsthand a gap that millions of people encounter: treatment may address what happened to you, but it doesn’t necessarily teach you how to build a life you want afterward.
That experience became the foundation for his work exploring how people navigate acquired disability and major life disruption. His conversations challenge traditional ideas about resilience and focus instead on identity, attention, energy, adaptation, and the decisions we make when the old version of life no longer fits.
Shay also talks candidly about the parts of disability that often receive far less attention: rebuilding a career when the work you once did may no longer fit, navigating dating and relationships when independence and confidence have changed, developing new friendships and social connections, redefining success, and learning how to participate fully in a world that wasn't necessarily designed with you in mind.
His perspective extends beyond disability to anyone facing a major transition that forces the question: Who am I now, and what do I want the next version of my life to look like?
Shay is also the author of Stop the Self Sabotage: You’re Not Broken, You’re Unfinished, and brings a candid, practical, and sometimes humorous perspective to the complicated work of figuring out what comes next.
