Roianne Nedd

Global HR Executive · Keynote Speaker · Author · Board Advisor

Speaking truth to power — and building what comes after it.

Two decades leading inclusion, culture, and organisational change on the world's biggest corporate stages. Fellow of ACCA and CIPD. World Economic Forum contributor. Author of The Trusted Black Girl.

Book Roianne to speak Founder advisory
Oliver Wyman World Economic Forum Harvard Business School BBC London Fellow ACCA Fellow CIPD
20+
Years leading change
11
Published titles
2
Professional fellowships
3
Continents of stages
Roianne Nedd

Speaking

Conversations that move rooms — intimate or global.

Roianne facilitates the discussions organisations find hardest to have: leadership and culture, equity that survives contact with the P&L, and the future of work itself. Practical, evidence-led, and unmistakably direct.

  • IThe Work/Life RenaissanceWhy the working day no longer fits the lives we live — and what we'd build if we started again.
  • IIInclusive leadership that deliversBeyond statements: the leadership behaviours that unlock overlooked talent.
  • IIIThe Trusted Black GirlClosing the perception gap that holds Black women — and their organisations — back.
  • IVPeople through changeCulture, values, and talent through mergers, pivots, and reinvention.

Recently: Harvard Business School European Conference · BBC London Radio · Health & Wellbeing Conference keynote

"I make sure that when two founders come together, their people come with them."

Roianne Nedd — on the seat no deal team fills

Advisory

The person between two founders.

When companies combine, the technology and the numbers make sense on paper — and a year later the talent is gone. Roianne sits in the seat no deal team fills: aligning values, leaders, and teams through founder partnerships, mergers, and scale.

For founders

Integration advisory

Values, leadership alignment, and team design when two companies become one — before the talent walks.

For founders

Fractional people leadership

Chief-people-officer thinking for teams past MVP and into monetisation — without the full-time hire.

For organisations

Culture & change

Organisational effectiveness, crisis navigation, and the leadership work behind sustainable inclusion.

A portfolio practice — five founder seats, by application

Books

Eleven titles and counting.

From workplace equity to essays on joy, Roianne writes the way she speaks — with candour and evidence. Her next book, The Work/Life Renaissance, asks what work should look like thirty years from now.

Signed editions available

The Trusted Black Girl

The book that started a movement: challenging perceptions and maximising the potential of Black women in the workplace — with pragmatic advice leaders can act on the same day they read it.

Community & media

The rooms she's building next.

Network

The Trusted Black Girl

Conversations and community for Black women and women of colour navigating the workplace.

Club

The Renaissance Club

Free virtual gatherings on reinvention — careers, life, and everything the two collide with.

Coming soon

Podcasts

New shows in production — including a family conversation years in the making. Stay tuned.