Janice Bryant Howroyd

Business Speaker, Founder and CEO, The ActOne Group, The First African American Woman to Own a $1 Billion Brand

Janice Bryant Howroyd Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$50,001 - $100,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
California, USA

Janice Bryant Howroyd Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$50,001 - $100,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
California, USA

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Work Will Continue to Redefine Itself

Automation and AI are not removing people from work. They are changing what work asks of us. The openings are there; the fit is what goes missing.

Who Gets Left Behind When the Tools Change

The opportunity gap runs wider than the wage gap, and it reaches the technically skilled and the technically unskilled alike. Grounded in what the data shows about who is moving and who is stalling.

Building When the Tools Move Faster Than the Plan

Nothing genuinely new is being invented. Uber put a new spin on the taxicab; Airbnb modernized renting a room. The most powerful tool for disruption is not a patent — it is imagination applied to what already exists.

Designing the Future With More People in the Room

Products designed by one kind of person tend to end up serving that kind of person. No part of the economy sits untouched by technology, which makes who builds it an economic question before it is anything else.

Keeping the Humanity in Human Resources

Hiring is judgment, and judgment does not delegate. What transfers when work is handed to a team, what doesn’t, and what it costs an organization to get that wrong.

Never Compromise Who You Are Personally

The distinction between being good at what one does and being good at business — and why the second has to be learned on purpose. Her standard, and the forty-seven years of practice behind it.

About Keynote Speaker Janice Bryant Howroyd

Businesswoman, entrepreneur, educator, ambassador, author, mentor and Presidential Special Appointee, Janice Bryant Howroyd is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The ActOne Group, a global leader providing customized cutting edge solutions in the human resources industry. The ActOne Group is a multi-?billion dollar (USD) award-winning, international Talent and Talent Technology enterprise with multiple divisions that each service unique areas of employment and provide talent management solutions.

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She is currently #39 on Forbes list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women. In 2014, Mrs. Howroyd was recognized by Black Enterprise as the first black woman to own and operate a billion?dollar company. She was BET’s first ever BET Honors Entrepreneur of the Year and has received Black Enterprise’s Business of the Year award. In 2013, she was appointed a USA Ambassador of Energy at the White House.

In May of 2016 she received a key Presidential appointment by President Barack Obama as a member of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In 2017, Howroyd was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission’s Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment (ACDDE).