DEI Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers who make diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging a business advantage your leaders can actually execute.
DEI keynotes work when they leave a room with something to do differently on Monday, and that is the bar this roster clears. Magic Johnson built a business empire proving that overlooked communities are growth markets. Carla Harris spent three decades at Morgan Stanley turning sponsorship into a repeatable strategy for moving diverse talent up. Cynt Marshall was hired to rebuild the Dallas Mavericks after a public culture crisis and became the first Black female CEO in NBA history doing it. Around them sit practitioners like Hyatt's Tyronne Stoudemire, culture builders like Dr. Ivan Joseph and Ryan Leak, and barrier-breakers like Anthony Robles, whose one-legged NCAA wrestling title became the film Unstoppable. Whether your audience is a skeptical leadership team, a global workforce, or a sales floor, the difference comes down to matching the right voice to the room, and that is what we do.
Inclusive Leadership in Practice
Executives who have run inclusion at scale, from Carla Harris at Morgan Stanley to Lt. Gen Jay Silveria and Hyatt's Tyronne Stoudemire.
Carla Harris
Vice Chairman at Morgan Stanley, gospel recording artist, and author of Expect to Win and Lead to Win. Three decades on Wall Street taught her how sponsorship, not mentorship, actually moves diverse talent up. Delivers inclusion as a performance strategy senior leaders can execute Monday morning.
Lt. General (Ret) Jay Silveria
Retired Air Force Lieutenant General and former Superintendent of the US Air Force Academy, where his unscripted response to a racist incident became a viral lesson in leading on values. Brings command-level authority to why inclusion is a readiness and performance issue, not a program.
Tyronne Stoudemire
SVP of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Hyatt Hotels, running inclusion strategy across a global hospitality workforce. A practitioner, not a theorist: he talks hiring pipelines, guest experience, and measurable culture change in terms operators and HR leaders can act on.
MJ DePalma
Microsoft's Global Director of Cultural and Inclusive Business Impact and one of the architects of inclusive marketing at one of tech's biggest brands. Shows teams how inclusion widens markets and drives revenue, backed by data on how customers reward brands that reflect them.
Culture and Belonging Builders
Coaches and authors like Ryan Leak, Dr. Ivan Joseph, and Kevin Brown who turn belonging into engagement, retention, and team performance.
Ryan Leak
Three-time New York Times bestselling author and executive coach who has trained leaders at Fortune 500 companies and NBA franchises. Approaches inclusion through everyday behavior: candid feedback, working with complicated people, and building teams where every player gets a real chance to level up.
Dr. Ivan Joseph
Award-winning performance coach and cultural transformation expert whose TEDx talk on the skill of self-confidence has tens of millions of views. As a championship-winning coach and university athletic director he built teams where belonging drove results, and he shows leaders how to do the same.
Kevin Brown
Bestselling author of The Hero Effect, drawn from a career rising from entry-level jobs to senior franchise leadership. Kevin Brown's message lands on belonging without the jargon: cultures win when ordinary people are seen, valued, and given a reason to deliver extraordinary work.
Barrier-Breaking Firsts
Magic Johnson, Cynt Marshall, and Anthony Robles: firsts whose stories prove what becomes possible when barriers come down.
Magic Johnson
NBA Hall of Famer turned billionaire businessman whose company brought theaters, coffee shops, and capital into underserved urban neighborhoods other investors ignored. The definitive proof case that inclusion is a growth strategy: overlooked communities and overlooked talent are markets waiting to outperform.
Cynthia ‘Cynt’ Marshall
First Black female CEO in NBA history, hired to rebuild the Dallas Mavericks after a workplace culture crisis, and former AT&T Chief Diversity Officer. Bestselling author of You've Been Chosen. The rare speaker who has actually run a high-profile culture turnaround and can share the playbook.
Anthony Robles
Born with one leg, won the 2011 NCAA wrestling national championship, the story behind the Amazon Prime biopic Unstoppable. Anthony Robles' message reframes disability and difference as fuel: what teams call limitations are often untapped advantages when leaders build around what people can do.
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The range on this page is deliberate. If you need inclusion translated into executive practice, Carla Harris, Lt. General (Ret) Jay Silveria, MJ DePalma, and Tyronne Stoudemire have run it inside Morgan Stanley, the Air Force Academy, Microsoft, and Hyatt. If the goal is culture and belonging that shows up in engagement and retention numbers, Ryan Leak, Dr. Ivan Joseph, and Kevin Brown build it from everyday behavior. And when a room needs the story itself, Magic Johnson, Cynt Marshall, and Anthony Robles are living proof of what opens up when barriers come down.
These speakers fit opening and closing keynotes, leadership summits, all-hands meetings, ERG conferences, HR and talent events, and sales kickoffs where culture is on the agenda. Rave Speakers handles the full booking: availability, fees, contracts, travel, and prep calls, so your team can focus on the event itself.
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