Risha Grant

WSJ & USA Today Best-Selling Author, Global Keynote Speaker, Culture Expert & BS Finder

Diversity Done Differently. It is Risha Grant’s personal mission to expose the subtleties and values of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion while shining a light on the impacts they create.

  • Risha Grant Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Oklahoma, USA

  • Risha Grant Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Oklahoma, USA

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BE BETTER!

THE GAME HAS CHANGED! It’s time to break free from initiatives that become silos in company culture. Every business loves to flex DEI, employee wellness, sustainability, corporate responsibility, plus customer experience upgrades–all aimed at crafting a top-tier ...

THE GAME HAS CHANGED!
It’s time to break free from initiatives that become silos in company culture. Every business loves to flex DEI, employee wellness, sustainability, corporate responsibility, plus customer experience upgrades–all aimed at crafting a top-tier workplace vibe. But rather than keeping them separate, it’s time to integrate them seamlessly into a dynamic overall environment that screams, we rock with our people, we roll with our community, and we support a world that wants to be better than the BS.

HINT: IT’S ALL ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE!
A top-notch workplace thrives on its people. The atmosphere isn’t shaped by your plans and initiatives; it’s defined by the folks making it happen. Your people-led integrated approach to culture starts with having the right leader and team in place. Cultures vibe better when every team member understands their role, feels safe, and trusts the process.

THIS IS WHERE THE BADDEST CULTURE COACH IN THE BUSINESS HITS NOTHING BUT NET!
In this keynote, Risha shares stories of empathetic, emotionally intelligent badasses who embrace connected culture and cultivating tight-knit teams because they chose to be better than their BS. The heart of the message revolves around her BET Framework, which demonstrates how personal improvement is the foundation to achieve organizational growth and transform culture. She also shows how personal growth ignites a slow but powerful transformation that positively impacts your team’s hustle, morale, and connection to consumers. Let her take your company culture from divided and disconnected to cooperative and connected.

WE WANT TO BE BETTER!
We’ve got you! International Speaker, Best-selling author, and Corporate BS Finder, Risha Grant will coach your team to success. Named one of the top ten most powerful women in HR and one of the top 40 female keynote speakers, she is poised to take your culture from toxic to transformational. Not because of the accolades, but because recognizing and conquering her own BS is what propelled her to reach every goal, she set for herself. From securing a Division One basketball scholarship to building a thriving multi-seven figure business that allows her to speak on global stages and hit several bestsellers lists, including the Wall Street Journal with her latest book, Be Better Than Your BS. Risha’s got the playbook locked and loaded. With half of her life dedicated to basketball and the other half grindin’ in the business world, she brings a unique perspective to educate and motivate by mixing in her DE&I infused expertise with 25 years of business acumen.

Attendees will learn:

  • Radical Acts to build a BS Free Culture
  • How Radical Acceptance breaks the barrier of scarcity mentality
  • How to Assess the BS (biasphere) holding you back
  • The BET Framework to impact personal and professional success

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GET RID OF THE BS & BUILD AN INCLUSIVE CULTURE

Whether implicit or conscious, bias is the number one threat to humanity and any company’s success. If your company’s goal is to create cohesiveness within your organization, increase revenue, be innovative and elevate your reputation-the bias in your workforce and ...

Whether implicit or conscious, bias is the number one threat to humanity and any company’s success.

If your company’s goal is to create cohesiveness within your organization, increase revenue, be innovative and elevate your reputation-the bias in your workforce and community is a roadblock. You know the problem. Getting Rid of the BS is your answer.

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

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GET RID OF THE BS TO ATTRACT DIVERSE MARKETS

Companies need to know how to get diverse customers to buy their products and services. Why? Because of business sustainability, competitive advantage, a constantly changing economy and trillions in buying power. During this session, D&I Speaker Risha Grant ...

Companies need to know how to get diverse customers to buy their products and services.

Why?

Because of business sustainability, competitive advantage, a constantly changing economy and trillions in buying power. During this session, D&I Speaker Risha Grant will share with attendees the keys to effectively engage various diverse groups and provide them with tips to increase their bottom line.

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

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RADICAL ACCEPTANCE: BE BETTER THAN YOUR BS

Empower Authenticity, Confront Bias and Create a Culture of Inclusion through Radical Acceptance. This speech will help audiences and individuals to understand Radical Acceptance and how their BiaSphere, Belief Systems, and BS stop them from welcoming and embracing all ...

Empower Authenticity, Confront Bias and Create a Culture of Inclusion through Radical Acceptance.

This speech will help audiences and individuals to understand Radical Acceptance and how their BiaSphere, Belief Systems, and BS stop them from welcoming and embracing all of humanity, including their own. Our BS shapes how we feel about ourselves, how we perceive the world, and how we interact with others. Radical acceptance teaches that through authenticity we can connect with others on a deeper level, and create a culture of acceptance and belonging. Mental health and psychological safety are more important now than ever before in the workplace, and companies who create an environment where everyone is allowed to be themselves without fear of rejection, are at the cutting edge of what it means to be an innovative and profitable place to work.

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

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About Keynote Speaker Risha Grant

Motivated by her passion to correct societal “isms” like racism, sexism, classism and plain old stupidism, it is Risha Grant’s personal mission to expose the subtleties and values of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion while shining a light on the impacts they create. 

Founder & CEO of Risha Grant LLC, an award-winning diversity consulting, communications and speaking firm, as well as an edgy, educational and motivational speaker, Wall Street Journal best selling author Risha Grant uses honest, humorous, and vulnerable storytelling to motivate audiences to embrace the inner tough work of Radical Acceptance while honoring diversity, equity, and inclusion without evoking feelings of judgement or assigning blame. 

These audiences have included Google, Levi Strauss, Nestle Purina, Xerox, YouTube, Procter & Gamble, Discover Card Financial Services, Samsung Electronics America, U.S. Airforce, U.S. Navy, Intuit, and Harvard University, to name a few.

She’s been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, HR News, The Financial Times, Glamour magazine UK, Bloomberg Media, and Black Enterprise among others.

Risha has received numerous honors such as being named one of the Top 10 Most Powerful Women Leaders in HR by PeopleHum in 2021, 40 Top Women Keynote Speakers by Real Leaders, the NBA OKC Thunder Changemaker Award in 2020 among others.

Testimonials

We just completed her session and it was the most well received of our 3 keynotes, in my opinion. She knocked it out the park. Or, to use a basketball reference, she was draining 3’s all speech long.
She did a fabulous job. I truly appreciated her story-telling and transparency. Read More

Chief Diversity Officer & SVP NA Field HR

Signet Jewelers

We loved having Risha as our Keynote Speaker for our 2020 Professionals of Color Conference. This year came with a lot of challenges, but Risha and her team made going virtual smooth. Risha’s content challenged the cultural norms and we appreciated her openly speaking her truth and experiences.

Amway

 

I want to say a HUGE thank you to Big Speak and to Risha. Risha’s talk was so impactful and we have received tons of positive feedback from our team. Risha was warm, engaging, and honest with our group. Read More

Madison

Ad Hoc

Risha Grant is a dynamic and very effective speaker. Her ability to demonstrate the value of Diversity & Inclusion, while providing individuals the opportunity to recognize and examine their own personal beliefs and behaviors, allows her message to truly resonate and live beyond her presentation.

Scott Welch

Global Corporate Relations Manager, Columbia Sportswear Company

Risha’s approach to diversity and expert advice impressed me to say the least. She is articulate, smart and provided a practical approach to improve diversity and easily applicable resources to achieve success.

Zohar Ziv

COO, Deckers Outdoor Corporation (Makers of Ugg Boots)

She spoke to over 90 attendees for 10 different Samsung Companies across the USA and Canada. She was inspiring, funny and brutally honest. I really appreciated her ability to tell a story, willingness to share her personal experiences and insight. She was professional and personable.

Michelle Manglal-Lan

Sr. Manager – Samsung, North America

Media

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Jul 17, 2020

A Dive into Diversity & Inclusion with Risha Grant

Diversity and Inclusion Expert Risha Grant recently sat down with BigSpeak to discuss businesses’ role within this historical moment centering...

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Jan 9, 2018

Diversity and Inclusion Will Be Your Company's Strength in 2018 and Beyond

Authored by Risha Grant, Diversity Expert As you begin to hear more and more about companies building a diverse workforce...

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Oct 13, 2017

Confront Your Biases and Be More Inclusive With This 3-Step Process

Risha Grant’s book That’s BS shows how to confront bias and be more inclusive. Are you biased? Have you ever...

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