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= Risha D. Grant = Risha Grant is an international award-winning diversity and inclusion speaker and trainer, and author of ''[https://www.amazon.com/Thats-B-S-Disrupts-Inclusive-Cultures/dp/0998994405/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=that%27s+bs&qid=1585665553&sr=8-1 That’s BS! How Bias Synapse Disrupts Inclusive Cultures and the Power to Attract Diverse Markets]''. She’s also the founder and CEO of Risha Grant LLC, an award-winning diversity consulting and communications firm.

Work and Career
Grant has trained and spoken before major corporations about unconscious bias, diversity and inclusion recruitment and retention, and diversity communication across the world including audiences from: Google, Levi Strauss, Nestle Purina, Xerox, YouTube, T-Mobile, Procter & Gamble, Discover Card Financial Services, AT&T, Samsung Electronics America, Cox Communications, Wells Fargo, USAA, U.S. Airforce, U.S. Navy, Intuit, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, and Harvard University.

Grant also founded DiversityConneX.com to assist her clients in creating a diverse workforce. The online platform allowed businesses and nonprofits to source professional, skilled diverse candidates for employment. Grant closed the company in 2016.

Works
''That’s BS! How Bias Synapse Disrupts Inclusive Cultures and the Power to Attract Diverse Markets'' was published in 2017 The book is a culmination of Grant's personal anecdotes and client experiences. The book teaches readers to call BS on their bias synapse with three simple steps: identify, own and confront. Grant's approach focuses on helping readers stop making their issues someone else’s fault. The three step process opens reader's minds to unconditional acceptance of colleagues. Professionally, three step process will remove barriers to assist readers with creating better products and enhancing their services. Additionally, That’s BS will help business and community leaders with strategies to build an inclusive culture and attract diverse markets.

Awards and Achievements
Grant has received numerous honors such as being named one of the Top 10 Most Powerful Women Leaders in HR by PeopleHum in 2021, 40 Top Women Keynote Speakers by Real Leaders, NBA OKC Thunder Changemaker Award and Top 100 HR Expert as well as 1 in 9 Speakers Turning Crisis into Opportunity by Entrepreneur magazine in 2020 , three years consecutive Engagedly Top 100 HR Influencers in 2019, 2020 and 2021 , 2018 Inclusive Leadership Award , and Entrepreneur of the Year 2017.