Risha Grant Featured Diversity Done Differently

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

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

• 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