Risha Grant

Speaking topics

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

• 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 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.

  In this keynote, Risha Grant 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.

  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.

• Get Rid of the BS and 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/or 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, DEI expert 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, equity, and inclusion.
  • A thorough awareness of biases.
  • A realization of how biases originated.
  • A recognition of the symptoms and results of bias.
  • Benefits of building a culture of inclusion.

• 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.

  Biases are always working against you in business. During this session, Risha Grant 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, Grant shows 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.

• 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 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.

  With mental health and psychological safety more important now than ever before in the workplace, 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 a profitable place to work.

  Risha Grant’s honest, memorable, and practical presentation 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 behaviours 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.