Marissa Ellis
Unlocking the power of inclusion for happy, high performance
Main focus: Inclusive Innovation
Websites/blogs: www.diversily.com , https://www.linkedin.com/in/marissaellis/
Languages: English
City: Bristol
Topics: inclusion, diversity in tech, inclusive thinking, team success, culture change, inclusive leadership, mindset, purpose, inclusive intelligence, inclusive innovation
Services: Talk, Moderation, Workshop management, Consulting, Coaching
Willing to travel for an event.
I have spoken on event stages to hundreds of people (Tech Inclusion, Women in Payments Symposium, FinTech West), in virtual conferences and within global organisations such as SWIFT, ING, IMG, Booking.com as well as scaling tech businesses such as YouView, 11:FS & Paddle and public sector organisations.
Let's talk about how I can inspire your audience to shift their thinking and take inclusive action.
Marissa is a strategist, advisor, speaker, best-selling author and the founder of Diversily, a global inclusion consultancy. She has over 2 decades experience in senior roles in the tech sector, from well-known names such as Reuters, Barclays, SWIFT and lastminute.com to high growth start-ups and accelerators. She has seen first hand the negative consequences of a lack of diversity, equity and inclusion. She is known as a thought leader in 'Inclusive Intelligence' and her focus now is on helping organisatons unlock the power of diversity & inclusion to drive happy, high performance., while also creating a postive social imact.
Drawing on her extensive experience, Marissa challenges the status quo and has helped hundreds of leaders to rethink their approach to leadership and business, to take a more inclusive approach. She aims to change mindsets and inspire action on topics such as: inclusive leadership, mindset, purpose, inclusive innovation, diversity in tech, inclusive thinking, team success & culture change.
Marissa is hugely passionate about creating a fairer, more equitable future for us all, where technology can help us solve, not create, some of the world’s greatest challenges. She pioneered the creation of The Inclusive Innovation Playbook, to help propel the tech industry forward to adopt more inclusive innovation practices, as standard.
Examples of previous talks / appearances:
Delivered as part of our Inclusive Leadership programmes. I talk about:
- What Inclusive thinking has to do with Pringles
- Why Inclusive Leadership matters.
- The five stages to become an advocate for inclusion, and how as leaders, you can support others to progress.
- What an Inclusive Leadership 2.0 mindset looks like; why unconscious bias training is not enough and what we need to do instead.
- A roadmap you can follow to become a better, more inclusive leader.
Talk from Marissa Ellis, Diversily Founder at the Eden Chase Diversity and Inclusion Summit.
This talk is in: English
In 'The Power of Perspective' talk I talk about:
- Being wrong
- Whether 1+1 is always 2
- What 9/11 terrorist attack, the 2008 financial crisis and racist chat bots have in common
- The evolution of user experience to human experience
- How to use perspective to create more inclusive experiences, products and services.
Often diversity and inclusion is left to the HR practitioners, Diversity and Inclusion experts or the excluded minority groups. However, to drive any kind of transformational change 'Inclusive Thinking' should be a skill that everyone develops and uses as part of their day to day activities. This is how it becomes embedded, integrated and impactful and we collectively create solutions that work for more people more of the time.
Often there is a no or low cost option that is more inclusive but you need inclusive thinkers who can identify these options in the first place.
We all have a part to play.
This talk is in: English
With the rise of AI and data driven decision making there has never been a more pressing time for us to raise our collective inclusive intelligence. In this talk I explain what inclusive intelligence is, why it is so important and how we can develop it in both humans and machines.
This talk is in: English
Current innovation practices are broken. We are not systematically designing for everyone. The ‘other’ that we tend ignore, is actually the collective majority. With the rise of AI and data driven decision making we need to act fast to change mindsets and build inclusion into everyday practice. This isn’t just a sideline concern for the Diversity and Inclusion specialists or the minority groups - it should be built into the way we all think, act and make decisions. In this talk I share some practical suggestions for things we can all do to collectively drive transformational change, creating better solutions and more opportunity for all.
This talk is in: English
Most of us belong to the neutral middle — but being neutral is no longer enough.
Frankly, it isn’t actually neutral, either. It’s a tacit agreement that things are okay as they are, when they patently aren’t.
On this episode, I interview Marissa Ellis, Founder of Diversily and creator of the Change Canvas:
What we talked about:
The formula for change
Why neutrality isn’t neutral
The Change Canvas (P.S. it’s free)
Barriers to cultural change & how to overcome them
Marissa Ellis, the Diversily founder joined Julia Streets and Jane Welsh to record an episode of the DiverCity podcast. It is all about diversity and inclusion in financial services. The podcast seeks to shine a light on positive progress, call out areas requiring further focus, and offer lots of ideas to help drive change.
This talk is in: English