+1 347 223 5128

+44 20 3744 5675

Our professional consultants are ready to guide you

Request a keynote

US: +13472235128

Inspiring Inclusivity with an Impactful Narrative

Grant

Risha Grant

travels from USA

Internationally recognized for her expertise in diversity, equity, and bias, Risha Grant has spoken at institutions like U.S. Airforce and Harvard University.

Request fees and availability

4.75 out of 5 stars

Risha was phenomenal. Word to best describe her: Authentic.

Christina Luconi - Rapid7 See all references

Reasons to book Risha Grant

  • Transform your organization’s culture with Risha’s insights, leading to a workplace environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion at its core.
  • She delivers a proven strategic inclusion framework, equipping your team with actionable tools to foster diversity and inclusion seamlessly.
  • Risha Grant is not just a speaker but a recognized leader, honored as one of the Top 10 Most Powerful Women Leaders in HR and a Top 100 HR Expert by industry authorities.
Non-binding request for Risha Grant

Send a simple request. You’ll get a quick reply with fees and availability

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
About icon

About Risha

Lecture icon

Keynote

Video icon

Video

References icon

References

Interviews icon

Articles

Request fees and availability
Unlock organizational transformation with Risha Grant—an award-winning diversity consultant and sought-after speaker. Her dynamic approach, recognized by Google, Procter & Gamble, and NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, navigates complex diversity challenges. As CEO of Risha Grant LLC, she blends humor, vulnerability, and expert insights to inspire Radical Acceptance. Featured in Forbes and more, Risha delivers keynote experiences that foster empathy, kindness, and inclusivity. Elevate your event with a speaker renowned for turning crisis into opportunity and leading the charge for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Reasons to book Risha Grant

  • Transform your organization’s culture with Risha’s insights, leading to a workplace environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion at its core.
  • She delivers a proven strategic inclusion framework, equipping your team with actionable tools to foster diversity and inclusion seamlessly.
  • Risha Grant is not just a speaker but a recognized leader, honored as one of the Top 10 Most Powerful Women Leaders in HR and a Top 100 HR Expert by industry authorities.

As a Motivational Speaker, Risha seamlessly weaves her personal mission into the fabric of everyday life. From navigating biases in our casual conversations to understanding the intricacies of diverse lifestyles, she addresses societal “isms” with a passion that sparks change. Book Risha Grant for your event, and witness firsthand the power of her motivational storytelling, a blend of honesty, humor, and vulnerability that transcends the mundane and taps into the profound.

Founder & CEO of Risha Grant LLC, an award-winning diversity consulting and communications firm, Risha is more than a Keynote Speaker—she’s a catalyst for cultural transformation. When you book Risha, you’re investing in a speaker renowned internationally for her expertise. From Google to the U.S. Airforce, her impact resonates across industries. She doesn’t just speak; she empowers, leaving audiences with shifted hearts and minds.

Motivated by her passion to correct societal “isms” like racism, sexism, classism and plain old stupidism, it is Risha’s personal mission to expose the subtleties and values of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion while shining a light on the impacts they create. From her race, gender and lifestyle choices, to growing a small business and tackling economic, moral, and business issues, every area of her life intersects diversity

In the competitive landscape of corporate events, booking Risha Grant isn’t just a choice; it’s a strategic decision to foster lasting change. Elevate your organization’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion—Book Risha for a keynote that transcends the ordinary, leaving an indelible mark on your team and workplace culture.

See keynotes with Risha Grant
Keynote by speaker Risha Grant

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 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.
Request a quote
Keynote by speaker Risha Grant

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 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.
Request a quote
Keynote by speaker Risha Grant

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. 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.
Request a quote
Watch Risha Grant in Action!

Risha Grant Diversity & Inclusion Speaker Presents- Permission::Granted

Watch Risha Grant in Action!

Risha Grant speaker reel

See keynotes with Risha Grant

References

Risha was phenomenal. Word to best describe her: Authentic.

Christina Luconi

Rapid7

D&I is hard work because we humans are complicated. the bottom line is, when you need an extraordinary facilitator—who is clear-eyed, compassionate, and unafraid to work on implicit bias—call Risha. She steered the conversation to illustrate the unacknowledged, unaware white privilege that was underneath many of the exchanges among the participants, yet always created an environment of safety. Risha is uniquely equipped to lead your people forward into better territory where everybody wins.

Tony Botti

Manager, Behavioral Health Service and Student Counseling and Mental Health Service, Harvard University

Risha’s presentation, Authenticity is Everything, was a candid discussion on how to identify and get rid of our biases so that we can show up as our authentic selves. The feedback from this discussion was overwhelming! Our members appreciated the safe space for discussion, asked thought-provoking questions that Risha answered truthfully, and walked away with tools on how to examine and overcome their own biases. Risha has such a dynamic personality that was felt even through the virtual environment (although I bet seeing her in person is even better!) and a disarming manner that made it easy for us to engage with her. If you’re looking for an energetic, no BS speaker to engage your organization on some tough topics, hire Risha.

Leah Cleary

Director of Education and Programing, Nestle Purina Women Leaders Forum

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

She received a standing ovation and was the perfect speaker to wrap up our conference!

Kristen Baker

Senior Project Manager, The Bridge Conference — The Direct Marketing Association of Washington

Her engaging storytelling talent and expertise in D&I will bring great value to any adult learner forum.

Emily Lawson

Director of Education, American Staffing Association

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. It allowed our team members to connect with her.

Reginald Johnson

Chief Diversity Officer & SVP NA Field Human Resources, Signet Jewelers

Risha captivated the audience and challenged us as HR professionals to look at what diversity and inclusion really means.

Karlina Christensen & Shauneen Scott

Committee Chairs, Northwest Human Resource Management Association (NHRMA)

Risha knocked it out of the park at our industry conference. She brought a ton of energy to the presentation and she got everyone in the room to come face to face with their own bias, which was amazing to watch. There wasn’t a person in the room staring at their phones. That told me she got their attention and they were really thinking about what she was saying. I highly recommend Risha and her message for any business or industry dealing with bias and needing more diversity.

Pat Hus

Senior Vice President, Bike Specialty

Risha did a fabulous job reminding us that everyone needs “to be the change” in understanding diversity and inclusion in order to affect a long-term, organizational cultural change. She reminded us the starting point is for people to “unpack your boxes” and look at how they deal with bias. She provided us with a great introduction to a very important issue that requires our attention. I highly recommend her to any business or district looking to have someone who genuinely connects with her audience and knows how to read a community.

Michael Giardina

Assistant Superintendent For HR, Minisink Valley Central School District

We recently had Risha speak at our annual Women’s Leadership Forum and she was phenomenal! She kept attendees engaged, challenging others to confront their own biases while also sharing her own raw and personal experience and biases. She was authentic in every aspect of the word and a true pleasure to work with!

Stacy Riddler

Senior Education Manager, IAEE
10.23.2017

Interview with Risha Grant

How did you begin your speaking career?
I met someone who was a national speaker and we became friends. I told her of my interest in also becoming a speaker. A short time later, an opportunity arose at a conference in which she was speaking. They were looking for someone to address Diversity & Inclusion in the outdoor industry. She recommended me and the rest is history.

How are your keynote presentations unique?
My keynotes are unique in that they are interactive. I never want to talk “at” my audience, the goal is to always engage thm. I believe more engagement creates a better experience.

Who or what inspires you most?
The opportunity to make a difference is what inspires me. In life, I think that there are certain people along life’s journey that will bring a message that is needed for another person to reach their goals, get out of a bad situation or see things differently. Speaking provides the means to make a difference in for others.

Do you have a favourite experience from your speaking career?
My favorite experience comes from looking out at the crowd and recognizing that I have connected with people in the audience. It is also speaking with attendees afterwards and knowing that something I said touched them or helped them to see a different perspective.

How much does humor factor into your keynotes and other speaking engagements?
Humor is very important. My subject matter – diversity, inclusion and bias are tough topics. I pride myself in creating an environment where we get comfortable discussing the uncomfortable and that involves laughing at things that people usually only feel comfortable doing with friends and family.

What’s your biggest advice to someone dealing with discrimination in their workplace? 

  • First, assess the situation and make sure that it is discrimination and that you are not being overly sensitive or complicit in those areas in which you feel discriminated.
  • Secondly, once you have done a self-check and are confident in your claim – report the issue to your human resource department. Make sure that you document every instance of the behavior you deem as discrimination.
  • Thirdly, be prepared to go the distance. Once you make claims of discrimination, it could take on many forms. Make sure you have the support you need and know that you are being courageous and helping to create a better work environment for all employees.
See keynotes with Risha Grant
Non-binding request for Risha Grant

Send a simple request. You’ll get a quick reply with fees and availability

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Or call us at

US: +1 347 223 5128 UK: +44 (0)20 3744 5675
Risha Grant
Risha Grant

4.75 out of 5 stars

Risha was phenomenal. Word to best describe her: Authentic.

Christina Luconi - Rapid7 See all references

Related speakers

See all speakers

Swipe left

Keynote topics with Risha Grant

Non-binding request for Risha Grant

Send a simple request. You’ll get a quick reply with fees and availability

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.