About ABILITYscaled

ABILITYscaled began with plans for a service business connecting practical support, skills development and opportunities for greater independence. Years of development brought together research, business planning and direct experience of the institutions involved.

The service business did not secure the funding needed to become operational. In June 2026, we put that accumulated work toward public accountability, policy and legislative advocacy. Those investigations, publications and proposals now form the foundation of the business.

Lance brings decades of business ownership to work spanning design, practical education and crisis management, alongside extensive marketing, sales and communications projects that bring ideas to audiences and markets. Across nearly five decades, he has designed products, developed financing arrangements, taught practical skills and worked with institutions responsible for difficult financial decisions. That experience informs the questions he brings to ABILITYscaled.

His involvement in disability work reaches back to Willowridge Training Wheels, where he taught students with disabilities and took responsibility for the curriculum and operation of a bicycle remanufacturing and repair facility. Through Wheelife, he pursued privately funded research into wheelchair design, skills training and independent living for young people with disabilities.

Twelve years in crisis management brought him into close working relationships with trustees, banks, accounting firms and lawyers. Assignments involved examining troubled businesses, reporting on their condition and working through reorganizations, liquidations and salvage projects. His responsibilities crossed finance, administration, marketing and operations.

That practical understanding of business also led to developing a Canadian bicycle-industry financing model using registered purchase-money security interests on serialized inventory. Through Strada Bici, he served as sole agent for the Ferrari/Colnago C35 bicycle line in the Western Hemisphere.

Media and creative work have been part of this experience too, from advertising and visual campaigns to producing a mixed-media bicycle exhibition at Toronto’s Bamboo Club. Today, ABILITYscaled’s publications and campaigns bring evidence, imagery, humour and direct argument into public discussions about disability.

Lance brings these experiences together to examine how systems work, whose interests they serve and how they could better support the lives of persons with disabilities.

• Lance Lattrulo on LinkedIn
• Lance Lattrulo on Facebook

Mike brings more than three decades of accounting and tax experience, including domestic and international Canadian taxation, corporate reorganizations and business transactions.

His senior tax roles have combined technical research, compliance and practical planning with the development of junior professionals. He holds an honours Bachelor of Accounting from Brock University and completed the In-Depth Tax Courses I, II and III. His advisory involvement with ABILITYscaled dates to 2018.

• Mike Capello on LinkedIn
• Mike Capello on Facebook

We retain control over our independent research, conclusions and editorial decisions. For commissioned work, we agree the scope and publication terms in advance. We disclose relevant funding relationships and conflicts of interest, correct factual errors, and apply the same standards of evidence and accountability to our own work.