Janet Stovall Speaking Fee: $20,000 to $30,000

Janet Stovall builds the systems that make inclusion work. Not the statements. Not the training. The actual infrastructure that changes how organizations operate and what they produce. She spent the first half of her career as an executive speechwriter and communications strategist, working inside the heads of CEOs and their direct reports at companies like UPS and HBOC. She learned how leaders think, what they respond to, and how to make ideas stick across functions that don't naturally speak the same language. Then she took that knowledge and used it to build inclusion functions from scratch. As a first-time Chief Diversity Officer at a global research and consulting firm, Janet built the inclusion function from the ground up. She partnered with HR to redesign policies, created the company's first ERG structure and developed an outcomes-focused annual plan that tied every initiative to a business metric. At UPS, she helped found the Equity, Justice & Action Task Force for 540,000 employees, authored the company's first inclusion annual report, and created the accountability framework that made senior leadership own their results. Through her consultancy, Pragmatic Diversity, Janet advises global companies on connecting inclusion to business outcomes. She developed a tool for a global pharmaceutical company's Business Resource Groups that generated $300,000 in new revenue. She created three proprietary models, The DOING Model™, The WORK Model™, and The EMPOWER Model™, that give organizations a concrete way to measure where they are and track where they're going. She's currently validating those frameworks through deep research and using them in corporate workshops while writing her second book, Belonging is Bullsh*t: How Your Equity Perspective Shapes Your Inclusion Practice. Janet is a three-time TED presenter with 3.5 million collective views. Her first book, The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t (co-authored with Kim Clark), was an Amazon bestseller and a Forbes CFO summer reading list selection. She holds a Certified Diversity Executive (CDE)® credential, a Master's from Georgetown University, and professional certificates from Yale, Cornell, and UC Berkeley. She teaches an MBA course on change leadership at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. She's won seven Cicero Speechwriting Awards, a Webby nomination, and multiple Telly and W3 awards. Janet sits on the Board of Trustees at Davidson College, where she is developing the Inclusive Leadership Institute, a national think tank and research center designed to position Davidson as the epicenter of inclusive leadership and establish how inclusive leaders are actually made. She has been published in Fast Company, Nasdaq, Bloomberg, NPR, and The Washington Post. She has spoken for Microsoft, Cisco, Google Cloud, Gilead, AbbVie, Edward Jones, Brown-Forman, FINRA, and dozens of other organizations worldwide. Janet doesn't talk about inclusion in theory. She talks about what it takes to make it operational, accountable, and tied to the numbers that matter.