Creating Mindful Inclusion: Building Organizations That Mitigate Bias
Unconscious bias provides insight into how we think and how that thinking shapes our workplace behavior. These insights are often misunderstood and misused in a way that actually perpetuates some of the challenges organizations face. This session will reveal new research that requires you to rethink some of the strategies we have become comfortable with in order to allow for greater collaboration and truly transform the way we work with organizational diversity, cultural competency, dimensions of power, and inclusion. This session will answer the following questions:
· What? – How does the ordinary functioning of the mind create bias?
· So what? – How does this play out in organizations? How does it affect me? How does it affect my organization?
· Now what? – What can I do about it? What can WE do about it? What WILL we do about it?
Howard J. Ross
Howard Ross is lifelong social justice advocate, and is considered one of the world’s seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing unconscious bias. Howard has delivered programs in 47 states and over 40 other countries to audiences including Fortune 500 companies, colleges and universities, and major institutions within healthcare, government, and non-profit sectors. He authored the Washington Post best seller, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives, ReInventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance. His latest book, Our Search for Belonging: How the Need for Connection Is Tearing Our Culture Apart, published by Berrett-Koehler in 2018, received the Nautilus Gold Medal for Social Change and Social Justice. His next book, Building Belonging: 9 Pathways to Creating Inclusive and Joyful Organizational Communities, will be published in 2020.