Risha Grant
Internationally Renowned Diversity, Inclusion and Bias Expert, and author
Edgy, sales and leadership keynote speaker, author Risha Grant, is an internationally renowned bias, diversity and inclusion expert. She covers these topics as NBC KJRH TV News 2 for You community correspondent and host of the JustUs series, through her Tulsa World column, Risha Talks, as a contributor to Black Enterprise Magazine, in her book, That’s BS! How Bias Synapse Disrupts Inclusive Cultures and her corresponding “BS” Video Series.
As a leading Diversity and Inclusion consultant, Risha has motivated and educated numerous corporations, associations and universities and lead them to a new place of respect and understanding. These audiences have included Discover Card Financial Services, Samsung Electronics America, Cox Communications, Wells Fargo, USAA Diversified Financial Group, Boy Scouts of America, U.S. Airforce, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, University of Oklahoma and Roger Williams University, to name a few.
Risha has been awarded numerous honors such as the 2019 Top 100 HR Influencers, 2018 Inclusive Leadership Award, Entrepreneur of the Year 2017, One of Four to Watch by the Tulsa World, one of the Most Influential African Americans, and one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs by Engage Magazine. She has also won the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s Top Inclusive Award three years and been nominated for the Journal Record Woman of the Year award several times.
She has been featured in Forbes, The Financial Times, Off Script, Bloomberg Media, Black Enterprise, Engage Magazine, Radioactive Radio, Take the Lead Radio, The Dream Catcher podcast, Money for Life podcast, DJC Oregon Newspaper, The Kansas City Star, WUSA-TV, KVUE-TV, KTLU-TV, WURD Radio, among other local and national media.
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Sometimes being authentic is not understand by the company and the hierachies. We must show that diversity is not a problem for the sucess of our work and sometimes contribute to get other ways to see the world and to do the work .
I agree it’s important to help others see the benefits of embracing diversity. This needs to be the work of allies too and not just the individuals who bring their authentic difference.
The beauty of diversity is that it gives a broad set of ideas, so increase the different point of view in the decision-making process, it also gives inclusiveness to the decision making process. can increase a sense of partnership and help a group of people to actually work as a single team to achieve common goals.
I will take this advice to get more diverse mentors for myself so that I can seek wisdom from many different minds.
This is a great action step to take! Congratulations and let us know how it goes.
Diversity is a superpower. Was the most realistic presentation that can help people overcome barriers, I have been teaching about love and seeing one another as brother and sister. It was priceless to receive a comment from a youth in church telling my audience that “Virginie Loves God and she Loves people” I was doing a presentation and I asked him to introduce me so I heard only two sentences Love God and love people. This is true if we do not develop internally to resemble the heart of God we cannot Love God and Love others. If I love God I must overcome all barriers of nationality, ethnicity, religion, politic, race, …. to deserve to be called a child( ren) of God. The reason why this is so important to interact with all types of diversity equally to do business. While many managers still struggling to work with diversity because they are impatient and they cannot bear with the language barrier. But most of the honest people who work hard for the company are such types of people. I am blessed to have this aptitude to interact with any type of Diversity and learning from all cultures. Thank you all for your presentations.
Thanks for all your comments!
Diversity can be the greatest assets of any company willing to embrace it.
Thank you for the inspiring session! After leaving a dead-end, government job (dead-end based on my differences) I have been doing more to reconcile who I am with the work I do. Thank you for the push to re-engage myself as me moving forward!
So glad you’ve also been inspired by Risha! Keep going!