Sam Kusi
Leadership, diversity, and inclusion speaker
Speaker Sam Kusi is a motivational and diversity and inclusion speaker assisting organizations in optimizing their company through many different inclusions and forms of diversity. Sam provides actionable takeaways from his keynotes through conversations around how to implement certain practices or enhancing particular methods that may already be in play for company optimization.
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Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Sam Kusi: Respond to the Deafening Elephant in the Boardroom!
What practical strategies are in place to expedite the much-needed uptick of women and other underrepresented groups on boards?
Audience takeaway:
This compelling talk focuses on practical strategies that leaders can employ to ensure that diversity will trump homogeneity within their boardroom and diffuse throughout the organization.
Audience takeaway:
This compelling talk focuses on practical strategies that leaders can employ to ensure that diversity will trump homogeneity within their boardroom and diffuse throughout the organization.
Keynote by speaker Sam Kusi: How Do We Go From Patrons to Pioneers of Diversity?
In this keynote, Sam explores how businesses can rid themselves of the overtones of patronage and tokenism often associated with diversity, and in turn mushroom pioneers of diversity.
Audience takeaway:
Businesses pioneering diversity are passionate about it and etch it into their mission statement. Their aim is to do more than ‘drive diversity’. ‘Drive’ is something you feel you’re obligated to do. ‘Passion’ is something you can’t stay away from'.
Audience takeaway:
Businesses pioneering diversity are passionate about it and etch it into their mission statement. Their aim is to do more than ‘drive diversity’. ‘Drive’ is something you feel you’re obligated to do. ‘Passion’ is something you can’t stay away from'.
Keynote by speaker Sam Kusi: The Disability Diversity Deficit – Include the Excluded
Sam expounds on why fostering a business culture of inclusivity, for those with physical as well as neurodiverse disabilities, should be more than a ‘nice to have’ but rather a business imperative.
Audience takeaway:
Glean why many with a perceived disability have arguably the most important attribute needed in business to boost your bottom line. Focus on how to become a 'Disability Confident' employer.
Audience takeaway:
Glean why many with a perceived disability have arguably the most important attribute needed in business to boost your bottom line. Focus on how to become a 'Disability Confident' employer.
Keynote by speaker Sam Kusi: Neutralizing the Gravitational Pull of Unconscious Bias
Unconscious bias is inextricably linked with life and culture. However, to what extent is it unknowingly shaping your company culture, and what can be done to mitigate it?
Audience takeaways:
This keynote includes how to catch ourselves from the trance of unconscious bias. How to make job advertising a game changer in adjusting diversity deficits.
Audience takeaways:
This keynote includes how to catch ourselves from the trance of unconscious bias. How to make job advertising a game changer in adjusting diversity deficits.
Sam Kusi
Creating a non-bias environment for you employees
Why you should book speaker Sam Kusi:
A genuine thought provocateur, he fuses the latest research, gripping storytelling, and a refreshing sense of humor to illustrate his audience takeaways.
His mission is to both inspire, engage, and uplift. His research and passion will stimulate minds, penetrate hearts and set your event alight through his insightful keynotes
He explores and explains the role of unconscious bias as an invisible barrier and how mitigating this factor can future-proof a diverse workforce.
Speaker Sam Kusi is a motivational keynote speaker presenting impactful thought leadership presentations focusing on topics such as diversity and inclusion - as well as the problem of unconscious bias.
Sam believes the scarcity of diversity, especially in senior executive positions of actual influence, is detrimental to both revenue streams and also to best practice approaches to business. Furthermore, diversity problems at the upper echelon of numerous organizations and companies is out of sync with the actual demands of the globalized consumer market. In other words not just bad for morale but also bad for business. He possesses robust experience across a wide range of industries such as Education Management, Commodities, IP Management, Media Communications, and Real Estate. Navigating in and between these fields has given him real empirical evidence of subliminal common threads pertaining to workforce inclusivity or the lack thereof, as well as its resultant rationale.
Kusi believes that unconscious bias is inextricably linked with culture, including work culture. To what extent is it unknowingly shaping company culture around the world and what can be done about it? As a keynote speaker, Sam Kusi examines how businesses can rid themselves of the over-and undertones of patronage and tokenism often associated with diversity to instead mushroom pioneers of diversity.
A genuine thought provocateur, he fuses the latest research, gripping storytelling, and a refreshing sense of humor to illustrate his audience takeaways.
His mission is to both inspire, engage, and uplift. His research and passion will stimulate minds, penetrate hearts and set your event alight through his insightful keynotes
He explores and explains the role of unconscious bias as an invisible barrier and how mitigating this factor can future-proof a diverse workforce.
Speaker Sam Kusi is a motivational keynote speaker presenting impactful thought leadership presentations focusing on topics such as diversity and inclusion - as well as the problem of unconscious bias.
Sam believes the scarcity of diversity, especially in senior executive positions of actual influence, is detrimental to both revenue streams and also to best practice approaches to business. Furthermore, diversity problems at the upper echelon of numerous organizations and companies is out of sync with the actual demands of the globalized consumer market. In other words not just bad for morale but also bad for business. He possesses robust experience across a wide range of industries such as Education Management, Commodities, IP Management, Media Communications, and Real Estate. Navigating in and between these fields has given him real empirical evidence of subliminal common threads pertaining to workforce inclusivity or the lack thereof, as well as its resultant rationale.
Kusi believes that unconscious bias is inextricably linked with culture, including work culture. To what extent is it unknowingly shaping company culture around the world and what can be done about it? As a keynote speaker, Sam Kusi examines how businesses can rid themselves of the over-and undertones of patronage and tokenism often associated with diversity to instead mushroom pioneers of diversity.
Blog posts by Sam Kusi
Letter to my Younger self
Dear Younger Me,Thank you for being you – You have made it possible for me to be me.Remember that you cannot make a difference – unless you are different.Embrace your African heritage and enjoy the ethnic diversity of your London upbringing. Never betray your own values just to fit in. Don’t be quic
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