Understand and Overcome Unconscious Bias
What you'll learn
- Understand the meaning and significance of unconscious bias, and how it can affect workplace interactions and decisions.
- Recognize common types of unconscious bias, such as affinity bias and confirmation bias.
- Develop awareness of microaggressions and their impact on workplace culture and relationships.
- Develop practical strategies to overcome unconscious biases and avoid microaggressions in the workplace.
- Gain practical communication skills and easily applicable tools for avoiding bias, engaging in leUnderstand how to develop community agreements to foster trust.
- Develop a personal action plan to apply learning from the training in the workplace
Requirements
- A desire to understand and address unconscious bias is all you will need.
Description
Led by two experts with over 25 years each in fostering inclusive attitudes and workplaces, this training is designed to give you an understanding of unconscious bias and tools that can be used both to counter your own bias concepts and interrupt patterns of bias you might observe. By the end of this course, you'll be able to better recognize and counteract the effects of interpersonal unconscious bias. The goal is to make a meaningful difference in addressing bias both in your live and in your workplace.
Specifically, this training will help you:
1. understand the meaning and significance of unconscious bias
2. recognize common types of unconscious bias such as affinity bias and confirmation bias
3. develop awareness of microaggressions and their impact on workplace culture
4. identify personal biases and their potential to impact relationships and decisions
5. develop practical strategies to overcome unconscious bias
6. understand how to create community agreements and foster trust
7. examine the role of language and communication in promoting inclusivity
8. gain practical communication skills and tools like the spark method and
9. develop a personal action plan to apply your learning
Join us in this journey to build a more inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for anyone who is interested in better understanding unconscious bias and how to address it.
Instructors
Layli Miller-Muro is a social impact consultant, advisor, trainer, and keynote speaker. She has over 25 years of experience as a corporate attorney for one of the top law firms in the world (Arnold & Porter), a government attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a human rights advocate for one of the most influential non-profit organizations in the U.S. She is currently a consultant and expert advisor for leaders and organizations to help them operationalize their values. She also serves as a corporate and philanthropic board member of several entities.
Layli founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Tahirih Justice Center for over 20 years. Tahirih is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting immigrant women, girls, and other survivors from human rights abuses. Since 2001, she led the organization in its service to over 31,000 women and girls, growing it from a staff of 6 to over 100, and expanding its offices to San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, and Baltimore in addition to the Washington, DC area with over $24M in total revenue.
In recognition of its sound management and innovative programs, under Layli’s leadership, Tahirih won the Washington Post Award for Management Excellence and its innovative use of pro bono attorneys to quintuple its resources was featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Layli was included in Goldman Sachs's inaugural list of the Top 100 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs and named by Newsweek Magazine as one of the 150 Most Fearless Women in the World.
She has appeared in numerous news outlets including CNN, Fox News, NPR, PBS, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She is a frequent lecturer and has given speeches at the United Nations; Women of the World Summit; TEDx; and other venues including academic, corporate, and community settings.
Layli graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Agnes Scott College; earned her J.D. and M.A. (in International Relations) from American University; was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Northern Illinois University, and has received Executive Education Certificates in Non-profit Management from Harvard University and Stanford University. She holds a certificate in ESG and Sustainable Capitalism from Berkeley Law School.
In her 20 years in the field as a psychotherapist,
clinical supervisor, adjunct professor, and
consultant, social justice and anti-racism has
been a focal point of Minou’s healing work. As a
consultant at Visions, Inc., she spent 10 years coleading intensive diversity workshops aimed at
creating multicultural environments that challenge
the “isms” within organizations. She is a member
of the Athens Black Therapist Collective and has
facilitated several process groups including the
ongoing (8 year) Phenomenal Women of Color
group and the yearlong Healing from Racism:
Therapist Process Group. She finds a deep sense
of purpose and fulfillment from assisting clients
from historically oppressed groups. The work
centers around affirming their experiences with
microaggressions and injustices, exploring ways
to advocate for themselves, identifying allies,
learning to set healthy boundaries, improving
their communication skills, and creating a plan for
psychological safety and self-care.