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Widely regarded as one of the most empowering voices in motivational speaking today, Shayla Atkins is a highly sought-after keynote speaker; global diversity, equity, and inclusion strategist; and leadership expert. Leveraging nearly 20 years of professional experience as a human resource leader, Shayla is on a mission to impact audiences and provide sustainable strategies that stick to enable organizations and leaders in enhancing inclusive leadership capabilities, cultivating equitable workplace cultures and building DEI strategies that accelerate diverse representation in leadership, specifically women and people of color.

Shayla’s extensive leadership expertise has earned her invitations to speak on some of the largest corporate stages across the United States. And her exceptional skills have allowed him to deliver thought-provoking keynotes to some of the industry's most prominent corporations, including Kimberly Clark Corporation, Cox Enterprises, and Entergy Corporation, to name a few. Shayla has delivered dynamic speeches on live and virtual global stages, including Shawn Fair’s Leadership Experience Tour aired to millions of viewers on the Onstage Plus global network.

Shayla has become the leading authority in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategies and programs. She is a compelling thought leader dedicated to supporting mid-level and senior leaders to learn and apply inclusive and human-centric leadership principles. She facilitates sustainable training that helps organizations maximize diversity as a business imperative resulting in increased employee engagement, productivity, and retention. With over 15 years of strategic HR leadership experience in Fortune 500 companies and leading consulting firms, a Lean Six Sigma black belt and a certified business coach, Shayla understands the intersectionality of HR, Business Strategies and People.

In line with her unyielding passion for helping others succeed, Shayla is the CEO and Founder of The Atkins Impact Consulting Firm, a global company that accelerates racial and gender equity. She is the creator of it's signature professional and personal development program, Lead with S.P.I.C.E., whose mission is to engage, empower and equip black and brown women leaders to stop codeswitching, ditch perfectionism and other -isms to begin leading with authenticity to deliver results and leverage it as their competitive advantage in their career.

As a recipient of the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded by President Joseph R. Biden, Shayla is also a visionary who has been recognized for her leadership, commitment, and contributions to her community and the next generation. Her work has been featured on over 100 prominent media platforms such as ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and USA Today and in leading talk shows, radio segments, podcasts, newspapers, and magazines.

Current position (1)

CEO / Global DE&I Strategist & Leadership Coach

The Atkins Impact Consulting Firm

Degrees (1)

Organizational Development

Ashford University

2009 to 2013

Presentations

Presentations (4)

Women Can Lead With S.P.I.C.E. To Have a Seat and Voice At The Table

Just imagine, you can show up to work and be your full authentic self without leaving a piece of who you are at the door to fit into corporate cultural norms.

It has been reported that women suppress up to 65% of themselves daily in the workplace. And for black women, even more astonishing, up to 90% of themselves.

Shayla moves women to overcome the plague of changing who they are (“codeswitching”) to survive and shift to thriving and disrupting cultural norms by Leading with S.P.I.C.E.

Key Takeaways:
• Shayla teaches women of color in leadership to shed the layers that keep them stagnant and begin leading with their Savvy, Performance, Image, Communication and Exposure as their competitive advantage.

• She empowers and equips women to build intentional relationships, deliver results that matter, cultivate an authentic personal brand, position their authenticity as their differentiator and excel their career beyond middle management, by being themselves.

It's OK To Be A Leader And A Human: Humanizing Leadership to Build High Performing Teams

Are you expecting your employees to contribute 100% of themselves when they must leave a piece of who they are at the door?

Are your employees leaving at an alarming rate due to having managers instead of leaders?

Are your leaders challenged with leading employees in hybrid environments?

Key Takeaways:
• In a rapidly evolving world that is increasing the demands on leaders to be empathetic, agile, flexible and superhuman, Shayla is here to inform leaders, it’s OK to be human. It’s OK to lead with empathy, vulnerability, and vision to move you and your team closer to belonging.

• Shayla empowers, engages, and equips mid-level and senior leaders with the inclusive leadership traits and human centric leadership principles that undoubtedly increase employee engagement, loyalty, productivity, and retention.

• She doesn't stop there; leaders walk away with implementable actions that immediately bridge the gap between knowledge and activation.

Hidden Figures: Leading and Unlocking Women of Color in Leadership

Leaders, you have multi-cultural women top talent with high potential, but are they are hidden figures?

Leading diverse women requires an emotional and cultural connection to unleash their leadership power that yields revenue growth, unparalleled innovation, and unwavering loyalty.

It has been reported that women suppress up to 65% of themselves daily in the workplace. And for black women, even more astonishing, up to 90% of themselves.

One critical question is, how can leaders expect unwavering loyalty and 100% contribution when up to 90% of who they are is left at the door?

Key Takeaways:
• Shayla is compelling and charges leaders to lead multicultural women inclusively and with cultural competence.

• Leaders walk away with the capabilities and connection to lead women of color with empathy, confidence, and support.

• Leaders are prepared to have real dialogue with women that surpasses the surface and are equipped to provide the advocacy, sponsorship and coaching.

Needles and Threads: Integrating DE&I Into Your Cultural Fabric

Do you have numerous DE&I programs, councils and committees, but the efforts are not sticking?

You have program after program, training after training, but Inclusion is not a daily reality for employees?

That is because Inclusion is not seamlessly weaved into the fabric of your culture.

Leaders and DE&I practitioners will walk away with:
• Leaders and organizations understand how to shift their mindset and approach to DEI integration strategies without causing division.

• Knowing how to align, leverage and maximize diversity as a business imperative, equity as a cultural foundation and inclusion as their winning employer value proposition.

• Understanding the needle movers in their diverse workforce representation growth and the cultural threads that holds it all together for sustainability.

• Leaders will learn how to move their organizations from theory and fluff to daily application.

Past talks (4)

Women Can Lead With S.P.I.C.E.

The Leadership Experience Tour

Michigan State University Convention Center

October 23, 2022

S.P.I.C.E. IT UP In Your Career

Comeback Champion Summit

Global Virtual

May 15, 2022

Humanizing Leadership

Global Fireside Chat with the C-Suite

Kimberly Clark Corporation

April 14, 2022

Keynote Speaker: It's OK to Be A Leader and A Human: Leading the Person, Not Just The Employee

The Leadership Experience Tour

Michigan University Convention Center

March 26, 2023

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Shayla Atkins - Women Lead With S.P.I.C.E.

SHAYLA ATKINS- BUILD, GROW, SCALE!

FROM SOLO TO CEO - WORK WITH THE BEST! SHAYLA ATKINS IS BACK ON THE CW NETWORK!

Shayla is speaking to live audience - Human Centric Leadership

Shayla is an engaging speaker empowering women to lead unapologetically with authenticity

Shayla is speaking to a live audience of leaders, educating them on leading multicultural women

Live Fox TV interview highlighting her work as the creator of Women Lead with S.P.I.C.E.

Shayla is invited back to the conference as a keynote speaker

Speaker for The Comeback Champion Global Summit

Shayla received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award from President Joseph R. Biden

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Books & Articles (4)

President Joseph R. Biden Awards Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award to Shayla N. Atkins

Shawn Fair Announces the Dynamic Shayla N. Atkins as the Latest Addition to the Leadership Experience Tour Stage

Voyage Houston - Meet Shayla Atkins of The Atkins IMPACT Consulting Firm in Spring

Solo 2 CEO Business Academy Leads Women of Color From Being Solopreneurs To Being CEOs

Expertise (12)

Leadership

Other

Awards & certifications (6)

Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award from President Joseph R. Biden

Fair Consulting Group

2022

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Procter and Gamble

2008

Certified Change Management Leader

Prosci

2019

SHRM-CP

Society of Human Resources Management

2020

PHR

Human Resources Professional

Brainz Global 500 Entrepreneurs

Brainz Magazine

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Testimonials (1)

Wow! Is the greatest expression I can offer Shayla Atkins. She is a dynamic leader in DEI as well as empowering women in business to move away from misperceived professional norms such as “code switching” and “perfectionistic” behaviors. Through her talks I learned how to be authentic, engaging, how to avoid micro-aggressions, and still be able to lead with confidence, especially as a woman of color. I look forward to attending another engagement soon!
Adrienne Wise