Rebekah Steele’s distinctive keynotes and dialogues galvanize audiences to drive positive outcomes for better lives, better business, and a better world.

• Shine a light on critical DEI trends

• Expand shared understanding and commitment

• Expose avoidable DEI myths, traps, and barriers

• Activate collective superpower for purpose and performance

Who are my audiences?

As a frequent speaker for start-ups, scale-ups, and established global organizations across sectors and around the world, I help boards, business executives, DEI leaders, councils, innovators, and change agents commit to meaningful outcomes that advance DEI and business success together.

My energizing speeches have inspired, informed, and activated thousands in public conferences and events, corporate meetings, board meetings, leadership summits, DEI councils and forums, webcasts and podcasts, MBA and university lectures, book events, and more.

What do I bring together?

My distinctive keynotes, dialogues, fireside chats, and guest lectures feature:

• Evidence-based insights

• Customized links to your business

• Engaging story-telling

• Original thinking

• Provocative questions

• Practical action

• Interactive experiences

• Resources to sustain insight, action, and impact

Emphasizing the value of DEI for everyone in the organization, I engage audiences in the links between DEI and business success, connect the dots between DEI and innovation, bring together DEI and sustainability, and propel action for results that are good for people, business, and society.

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Radically rethinking inclusion for sustainable business results

My INdivisible co-author Alison Maitland and I have addressed around 40 events internationally on the topic of inclusive organizations, from in-person and online conferences and ‘fireside chats’ to internal corporate DEI events. See INdivisible speaking events for more.

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Customized for you

Selected previous engagements include:

DEI for Business Results

• Creating an Inclusive Culture for Growth, ANA Chief Marketing Officer Global Growth Council

• Building Your D&I Strategy for Sustainable Business-Linked Results, Communitech HRNet Hosted by Miovision

• D&I Results That Matter, Annual Diversity & Inclusion Conference, New York, NY

• Evidence-Based Diversity & Inclusion Metrics, European Diversity in Business Council

• Special Board DE&I Session, Boards of Directors at companies in an array of industries including Retail, Finance, Energy, & Transportation

• Global Diversity in People Management, World Diversity Leadership Summit at Harvard University

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Next Generation DEI

• DEI Innovators’ Insights & Implications, Fireside Chat, The Conference Board, Council of DEI Strategists

• Gender Equity and Public Policy, Columbia University

• From Zero Sum to Everyone: Targeted Universalism, The Conference Board, DEI Executives Councils

• Acting on Critical DEI Trends, Diversity Week Kickoff, Fortune 50 Financial Services company

• Beyond the Golden Rule: INdivisible inclusion in distributed and hybrid work, The Conference Board Directors Meeting

• New Good Governance: An Ambitious New Approach to Inclusion, Chartered Management Institute

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DEI and Innovation

• Bold New Approach to Equity, Corporate Relations Strategists Council, TCB

• Driving Innovation with Diversity and Inclusion, Innovation and Technology Conference

• Creating a Culture of Innovation, Water Technology and Sustainability Conference

• Breakthroughs with DEI, Jack Welch Management Institute

• 20th Anniversary Celebration: Radical Breakthroughs in Radical Times, Institute for Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion (ISDI)

• Fit for the Future: Inclusion – a radical approach for sustainable business results, IORMA

• Making the most of the mix: Talent acquisition breakthroughs with D&I, Talent Rising Summit, Milwaukee, WI

• Design the Future of Inclusion, Inclusion Design Lab, San Francisco, CA

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