Member Event: Interim meeting – Unconscious Bias

The intrinsic nature of bias greatly affects our ability to achieve our potential as individuals and as businesses.

The session will introduce attendees to the idea of unconscious bias, to explore what unconscious bias looks like in practice, and to think about how they can positively impact their organisation’s culture.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Define unconscious bias, including how to recognise and manage your own biases
• Outline strategies and tools for minimising bias in decision-making
• Action-plan for addressing unconscious bias

About the Presenter:

Jasmine Gartner runs a training and advisory consultancy, specialising in unconscious bias, diversity and inclusion, and information and consultation. Jasmine is a social anthropologist, and brings this specialist knowledge to her work in the corporate world. While the training she provides is always engaging and interactive, it is also thoroughly underpinned by research and theory. The programmes she runs are developed through working with senior leadership and HR teams, and then rolled out across businesses. Most recently, she has run programmes and training for a wide range of organisations, including Aegis, Aegon, the CIPD, Dimensions, HarperCollins, Kames Capital, Matalan, Nomad Foods, Quantcast, Standard Life Aberdeen and United Welsh Housing Association.She has lived in London since 2008, and has worked extensively all around the UK. Before moving to London, she was a professor at the State University of New York, teaching cross cultural studies for international business majors.