Risha Grant | Diversity Speaker | Consultant Coach

Throughout this session, Diversity & Inclusion speaker Risha Grant allows attendees to express their biases, while giving them easily applicable tools to get over them, however screwed up they may be. Although diversity can often be an uncomfortable topic, Risha’s approach helps attendees to understand the concept, without feeling bored, judged or blamed.

Attendees will leave this keynote understanding:

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• A thorough awareness of biases
• A realization of how biases originated
• A recognition of the symptoms and results of bias
• Tools to address bias internally and externally
• Benefits of Building a Culture of Inclusion
• The stuff she thinks is important (that you should write down) as you establish your inclusive culture

Biases are always working against you in business. During this session, Risha will teach attendees to examine their own decision-making processes and identify ways to minimize biases in order to attract diverse markets and increase sales. With a majority of diverse communities holding $14 trillion in disposable income, Risha makes the case for how profitability and diversity can coexist. This session will review the benefits of advertising and marketing to diverse communities in order to attract them to your company’s products and services.

Attendees will leave this keynote understanding:

• How unconscious bias keeps companies from recruiting diverse candidates
• How to reach diverse candidates through unconventional methods
• Marketing ideas for recruiting diverse candidates
• The buying power of diverse groups

Risha’s honest, memorable and practical presentation on Radical Acceptance: Be Better Than Your BiaSphere, Belief Systems, and BS blends together stories from her life experiences as a bisexual black woman, former division one athlete, and small business owner to teach audiences how their diversity can become their superpower! Learn how your own behaviors can be shaped by your own BiaSphere, which includes all of the subconscious beliefs, thoughts, feelings and emotions you have about yourself and the rest of the world around you. Radical Acceptance: Be Better Than Your BS will provide your audience members with the awareness and education to help them become better leaders, employees, colleagues, and people.

Attendees will leave this keynote understanding:

• The power of authenticity to shift company culture
• How to use diversity as a competitive advantage
• The psychological need for belonging
• How our BiaSphere has shaped our view of the world