In the wake of a tumultuous election, what can the audience expect for social healing in a changing, polarized America? Rich addresses social change in the US, helping his audience navigate immediate political developments and long-term social trends. His talk is perfect for corporations and nonprofit organizations and universities seeking to understand and address this country’s pressing conflicts. Rich speaks to the divides between a traditional, more socially-conservative America versus a younger, emergent, more racially diverse one — both very on edge politically. Rich offers the audience real-time, original insight into today’s conflicts over race, class, income inequality, gender, LGBT rights, and more. Leaving behind speculation or tired red-state, blue-state clichés, he unpacks an increasingly multicultural, complex nation. Rich offers key takeaways to help audiences plan and act for the present and future. In this compelling talk, Benjamin shows how America can reverse its polarization with dialogue — and action.

As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in. In this funny, honest, human talk, Rich shares what he learned as a black man in “Whitopia.” And then he offers practical lessons on what “Whitopia” can teach the audience about their own communities, particularly concerning fear, hope, and isolation, in all their forms.

The world is experiencing a moment of disruption — demographic, health and medical, political, economic, work-force, social, and technological. Rich’s talk reveals the role of disruption in un-nerving some Americans. Rich looks into the darker sides of disruption: layoffs, work-place reorganization, vigilantism, political extremism, and the rise of digital media’s “intensity machine”, including the alt-right. He denounces disruption as a platform for fear and bias.  And then he inspires people and institutions with strategies to withstand — and thrive in — disruption, amidst all its forms.

A prediction that makes headlines across the United States is fast becoming reality: By 2042 white people will no longer be the American majority. Rich has travelled 27,000 miles and lived two years in America’s whitest communities. From this experience, he offers the audience a unique look into "demographobia" — the fear of changing demographics. The browning of America now reaches a critical inflection point, one which shapes our politics, society, and markets. What will it mean to be "American," when whites are no longer the numeric majority, nor even the "mainstream?" How can communities and businesses prosper in a truly pluralist age? How can the spirit of entrepreneurship spark a new generation of inclusive, savvy business leaders and hopeful citizens? An adventurer and storyteller, Rich shares a positive vision of how the audience can go out and change the world as America becomes browner and more female.

What is your comfort zone at work? In your community? How does that comfort zone inspire and cage you?  With audience input, Rich peeks behind a person’s multiple comfort zones. He helps audiences to really understand their comfort zones — and inspires them to get beyond their “safe spaces” for better personal and collective gains, especially as our media and real-time worlds get more segregated and complex. He shares an original vision of shattering comfort zones in an era when America is re-segregating by income and race.

A seismic, historic presidential election. Hundreds of thousands dead from a pandemic. Ongoing mass incarceration of young men. Legions taking the streets of Portland, New York City, Baltimore, and elsewhere to protest the deaths of young black men at the hands of urban police. Calculated legal assaults on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and state legislative attempts to suppress the black vote. Recent years have festered more racial grieving than any other period since Dr. King was assassinated fifty years ago in 1968. Having reflected on MLK’s legacy for The New Yorker and on NPR, Rich takes the audience through the impressive gains and backward steps America has made toward King’s vision of a “a more beloved community.” He inspires the audience by looking toward decades of civil rights movement and Dr. King’s current relevance.