Risha Grant

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Permission Granted to Get Rid of Your BS

  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/or elevate your reputation — the bias in your workforce and community is a roadblock. You know the problem. “Permission Granted” is your answer.

  Throughout this session, 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, Grant’s approach helps attendees to understand the concept, without feeling bored or judged.

  Attendees will leave with:

  • An understanding of Diversity and inclusion.
  • A thorough awareness of his/her biases.
  • A realization of how his/her biases originated.
  • A recognition of the symptoms and results of bias.
  • Tools to address bias internally and externally.
  • Tips to navigate bias in the workplace.

• Permission Granted to Build an Inclusive Culture

  Building an inclusive culture is imperative to business success. Learn the keys to creating a culture that welcomes all employees, boosts retention, and productivity. During this talk, Risha Grant shares applicable tips and strategies to take your company’s culture to the next level.

  Attendees will learn:

  • Keys to attract and retain top diverse talent.
  • Strategies to showcase how an inclusive culture provides a competitive advantage.
  • Items important to establishing an inclusive culture.

• Permission Granted to Attract Diverse Markets

  Companies need to know how to get diverse customers to buy their products and services. Why? Because of business sustainability, a competitive advantage, a constantly changing economy, and trillions in buying power.

  During this session, Risha Grant will share with attendees the keys to effectively engage various diverse groups and provide them with tips to create a diversity communications strategy for their company.

  Attendees will learn how to:

  • Create a successful diversity communications plan of action.
  • Communicate to diverse audiences.
  • Market to diverse groups vs. mainstream audiences.

• Radical Acceptance: Be Better Than Your BS

  Empower authenticity, confront bias, and create a culture of inclusion through radical acceptance.

  This speech was created to help audiences and individuals to understand radical acceptance and how their “BiaSphere”, belief systems, and bias synapse (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 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 Grant’s honest, memorable, and practical presentation blends 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! Audiences learn how their own behaviours can be shaped by their BiaSphere, which includes all of their subconscious beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and emotions that they have about themselves and the rest of the world. “Radical Acceptance: Be Better Than Your BS” will provide all 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.

• Workshop: Building Diverse and Inclusive Organizations

  Unpack the BS (bias synapse) in your organization, so that you can begin to build authentic relationships.

  Risha Grant hosts a fun, engaging, and interactive live webinar for your employees that includes three modules of training to help assess the cultural and organizational barriers blocking your employees and business from authentic change. This includes:

  1. Get Rid of the BS (Bias Synapse)
  2. Get Rid of the BS to Build an Inclusive Culture
  3. Micro-Aggressions: Negative Messages, Positive Changes

  Through this three-step process, participants will be able to identify, own, and confront their bias while learning to build an inclusive culture and understand the micro-aggressions that keep us irritated and frustrated with each other.

  Along with live hosting, this webinar includes:

  • PDF downloads.
  • Course terms.
  • Key messages.
  • Reflection questions.

  This virtual workshop runs 60-75 minutes.