You can find it in every work \;environment\, but most of us don&rsquo\;t see it. It interferes with good \;management decision-making\, affecting \;everything from hiring\, promotions\, \;layoffs\, and teambuilding to advertising\, marketing\, product development\, and \;product placement. It \;impacts our thought processes and can cloud our \;judgment. In this session\, Deborah Biddle will define unconscious bias and discuss how it impacts decision-making\, \;business environments and work relationships. Participants will \;leave with practical strategies to identify \;and counter biases\, as well as \;ways to \;for build deeper\, more robust intercultural relationships.

About The Speaker: \;\n\n

With a calm\, level-headed approach\, keen listening\, insightful \;questioning\, and a passion for individual and organizational belonging and \;thriving\, \;Deborah Biddle influences individuals and teams to successfully \;rethink and redo the ways they engage with people and make decisions.
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\nDeborah is an Inclusion Institute Certified Diversity \;Practitioner\, National Diversity Council Professional\, Certified Talent \;Management Consultant\, and a \;sought after Trainer and Speaker. She leads the \;diversity\, equity and inclusion consulting\, assessment\, training\, coaching and \;practitioner certification \;firm\, The People Company LLC. Deborah works with \;organizations that want to leverage the power of change to heighten development \;and \;performance for their people. She designs and delivers thought-provoking \;and challenging experiences that help people THINK better\, DO better and \;BE \;better at what matters most.
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\nDeborah \;serves as advisory board member of Dane County\, Wisconsin Office for Equity \;&\; Inclusion\, board member and Diversity Committee Chair of \;Wisconsin Center \;for Investigative Journalism\, board member of Madison-Based Impact Christian \;Schools\, United Way of Dane County Personnel \;Committee member\, Unitypoint Health-Meriter \;Community Health Impact Committee member\, Madison Downtown Rotary Racial Equity \;and Inclusion \;Committee member and Music Committee member\, and Golden Life \;Member of Schaumburg-Hoffman Estates Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma \;Theta \;Sorority\, Inc. She is also president of Reasonable Service Ministries\, which \;serves people through bible teaching and Christian music. \;
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\nA \;graduate of Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University\, Deborah \;holds a master of business administration degree and a bachelor of \;arts degree in \;finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also has a \;Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate \;from the \;University of South Florida.
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\nDeborah is the devoted \;wife to Lloyd\, Lead Pastor at River Valley Community Church\, and mother of two \;sons\, Jason\, a human resource professional and \;Jared\, a collegiate scholar.

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