The business case for companies with diversity and inclusion in leadership is clear. The more diverse and inclusive your business is in terms of gender, culture, and ethnicity, the more likely you are to lead your peers in profitability.

According to multiple McKinsey studies, executive teams in the top quartile for gender diversity were 25% more likely to have above-average profitability. Moreover, companies in the top quartile for ethnic and cultural diversity in leadership outperformed their peers by 36% in profitability. For example, Beats Electronics, became a market leader in headphones, outperforming its peers in profitability due in part to its diverse leadership.

If you’re looking to gain an edge in your industry, increased diversity and inclusion in your business can improve your innovation, profit, and market share. If you’re interested in leading your industry, BigSpeak speakers bureau can connect you with a top diversity keynote speaker. These top diversity, equity, and inclusion (D, E & I) keynote speakers have advised small and large companies alike to help them grow.

Top Diversity Keynote Speakers

Marcus Collins is a diversity keynote speaker and a Marketing Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Marcus teaches the significance of developing an empathetic muscle to recognize how we are more alike than different can improve your company culture and your bottom line.

Wema Hoover is a top  D, E, & I keynote speaker and consultant who has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, including Google as their Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Now, Wema consults with businesses, helping them use their internal data to promote diversity and inclusion in leadership, activate employee engagement, build diverse talent pipelines, and to interact with customers and clients in more meaningful ways that strengthen business performance.

Omar Johnson is a top diversity keynote speaker, branding expert, and former CMO at Beats Electronics. Johnson shares how he built diverse leadership teams while working at Beats and teaches how when your business partners with the communities they serve, your business can make more conscious decisions in its marketing and branding efforts.

Risha Grant is an in-demand D, E, & I keynote speaker, consultant, and author of the book That’s B.S. How Bias Synapse Disrupts Inclusive Cultures. Risha works with small and large companies to help uncover unconscious bias and to build more diverse and inclusive company cultures. Risha can show your business how to attract and keep diverse talent, communicate with diverse audiences, and capture new markets.

Jennifer Brown is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, diversity consultant, and author. Jennifer’s work in talent management, human capital, and intersectional theory has redefined the boundaries of talent potential and company culture. She is currently writing a book about the power of storytelling for a new era of leadership, and is well-known for her bestselling book Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will To Change, which creates the case for leaders to embrace the opportunity that diversity represents, for their own growth and for the success of their organizations.

Kimberly Bryant is a top diversity keynote speaker, creator of Black Girls Code, and a 2015 Apple Stem Partner. In 2013, Bryant was highlighted by Business Insider as one of “The 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology”. In her talks, Bryant shares how she became an “accidental social entrepreneur” and the lessons she learned along the way to shape a new paradigm for women and girls of color in the technology industry.

Glenn Llopis Glenn is a contributing writer to Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Huffington Post. A top business keynote speaker, he was recognized as a top 20 influential writer at Forbes and a top 100 leadership speaker and business thinker by Inc. Magazine. His writings, speaking engagements, and consulting assignments focus on leading diversity and inclusion as a growth strategy by investing in the Cultural Demographic Shift™.