Seven Strategies for Overcoming Unconscious Bias

Seven Strategies for Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Presented By: Deborah Biddle, The People Company
 

You can find it in every work environment, but most of us don’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: 

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.
 
Deborah 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.
 
Deborah 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. 
 
A 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.
 
Deborah 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.