She didn’t let it stop her. She let it drive her.
Her Story
Victoria Mavis has been navigating the world with a disability since the age of four — on crutches, with a cane, and now on wheels. She has experienced every stage of what it means to move through life differently, which gives her an understanding of disability that goes far beyond any single moment or mobility device.
She grew up on a farm in Michigan, learned early that the world wasn’t built for people like her, and decided that wasn’t a reason to stop — it was a reason to push harder.
Over the next three+ decades, she built a career as a Human Resources executive, working with Fortune 500 companies and privately held organizations across the country. She specialized in labor relations, disability employment, and workforce development — fighting for inclusion long before it was a corporate buzzword.
She served as a volunteer at the American Legion Roger B. Chaffee Post 154 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and eventually created something no one had seen before: a mobility race that put able-bodied participants in wheelchairs and changed the way an entire parking lot of people thought about disability.
That race became One Day in the Chair™.
In 2021, she published Every Scar Tells a Story — a memoir about growing up with a disability across multiple stages of mobility, building a career, and finding that the scars we carry are not our limitations. They are our credentials.
What She Believes
Victoria believes that awareness without experience is just information. That inclusion isn’t a policy — it’s a practice. And that the most powerful thing you can do for someone who navigates the world differently is to spend one day trying to do it yourself. That belief is built into everything she does.
Credentials
- MBA — Business Administration
- SPHR — Senior Professional in Human Resources
- 30+ years HR leadership across Fortune 500 and privately held companies
- Disability employment specialist
- Published author — Every Scar Tells a Story (2020)
- Founder, One Day in the Chair™