Did you know it’s profitable to be diverse? Multiple McKinsey studies have shown executive teams in the top quartile for gender and cultural diversity are more likely to have above-average profitability. Diversity and equity don’t only improve profits. Study after study has shown the more diverse a company is in its culture and gender, the more the employees are engaged and productive.

If you’re looking to gain an edge in your industry, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau works with the Top 10 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Keynote speakers. These speakers have advised large companies like Google and small businesses around the world. They can help your organization improve its innovation, profit, and market share. 

Top 10 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Keynote Speakers

1) Wema Hoover 
Wema Hoover is a culture and DEI keynote speaker who has dedicated her career to serving as a catalyst for change and as a transformational leader. As a trusted C-suite and board-level advisor, Wema has leveraged her background leading global DEI efforts for companies like Google, Pfizer, Sanofi, and Bristol-Myers Squibb to help inform and guide corporate leadership through evolving corporate culture, creating inclusive work environments and integrating DEI and sustainability to build high performance organizations and drive business results.

2) Omar Johnson 
Omar Johnson is a top diversity keynote speaker, branding expert, founder of ØPUS United, and former CMO at Beats Electronics. Johnson shares how he built diverse leadership teams while working at Beats and teaches how when partnering with the communities you serve, your business can make more conscious decisions in its marketing and branding efforts.

3) Risha Grant
Risha Grant is an in-demand Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Keynote Speaker, consultant, and author of the book That’s B.S. How Bias Synapse Disrupts Inclusive Cultures. Risha works with small and large companies to help uncover unconscious bias and build more diverse and inclusive company cultures. Risha can show your business how to attract and keep diverse talent, communicate with diverse audiences, and capture new markets.

4) Marcus Collins 
Marcus Collins is a diversity keynote speaker and a Marketing Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Marcus teaches the significance of developing an empathetic muscle to recognize how we are more alike than different, which can improve your company culture and bottom line.

5) Kwame Christian 
A business attorney and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI), Kwame Christian took his place among the world’s top negotiation experts when his TEDx talk went viral, spurring his bestselling books, Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life and How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race: Practical Tools for Necessary Change in the Workplace and Beyond, as well as Negotiate Anything, the  #1 negotiation podcast in the world. Defining negotiation as “any conversation in which somebody in the conversation wants something,” Kwame has worked with the Fortune 500 to apply the fundamentals of negotiation to virtually all aspects of corporate success. He has also helped thousands, from all walks of life, acquire a negotiation mindset that can be applied to universal situations, conflicts, and difficult conversations. As Kwame is frequently quoted, “The best things in life are on the other side of difficult conversations.”

6) Robin Hauser
Robin Hauser is an Unconscious Bias and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Keynote Speaker and an award-winning director of documentary films at Finish Line Features. She has spoken about unconscious bias, the importance of diversity and inclusion, and women’s rights at organizations such as NASA, Google, Amazon, SXSW, the White House, and more.

7) Tsedal Neeley
Tsedal Neeley is a top virtual work and organizational change expert, business thought leader, and a Professor at the Harvard Business School. Her 2022 co-authored book, The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI helps companies and leaders see, think, and act in new ways.

8) Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a top diversity speaker, writer, broadcaster, and award-winning social advocate with a background in mechanical engineering. She has traveled to over 24 countries across five continents, speaking to governments and organizations about inclusive leadership, tackling bias, and achieving substantive change.

9) Verna Myers 
Verna Myers is a top diversity speaker and founder of The Verna Myers Company, a consulting firm devoted to overcoming obstacles to diversity within the workplace. Myers is dedicated to educating others on the difficult but necessary conversations around bias, inclusion, and cultural competence. 

10) Cynthia Marshall
Cynthia Marshall is a top diversity speaker and founder of Marshalling Resources, a consulting firm concentrating on leadership, diversity, inclusion, cultural transformation, and the expansion of people as resources. Marshall works with companies to create strategies for regulating an inclusive culture. 

If you’re interested in a Top 10 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Keynote Speakers, call BigSpeak Speakers Bureau today.

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