Joann Douziech

Joann Douziech is the founder of Ikigai Consulting Inc. in Saskatoon, Canada. Over 32 years in inclusive education, she taught students with intellectual and multiple disabilities and coordinated student services for learners with intensive needs. Her Ikigai Framework, a synthesis of her professional and life experience, is published in IASSIDD’s Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities (2024). It can inform policy, interdisciplinary practice and agency support models. Her greatest inspiration is her sister Marge, who is thriving at 66 and shows what is possible when people with intellectual disabilities are understood, taught and supported to flourish.