Rene Germain

Rene Germain is a writer, speaker and champion of the Black community. She has worked at leading investment banks, professional services firms and media companies. In 2017, she created the Instagram platform, 'Blk and Great', celebrating Black achievements and highlighting issues within the community. She co-created the viral hashtag #blackintheoffice to enable Black British employees to anonymously share their experiences of racism and discrimination in UK workplaces, prompting apologies from well-known organisations and contributions from Black employees around the world. Rene regularly contributes to and drives online conversations about the Black workplace experience and has written for a number of online publications which include Fortune.com, Stylist.co.uk, HuffPost UK and Cosmopolitan UK.  Her debut book Black and Great: The Essential Workplace Toolkit was published by Coronet, an imprint of Hachette UK in 2022.