Beat Gender Bias

(Paperback)

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Bias might be built in to how our brains work, but that doesn't make it acceptable. Recent advances in psychology and neuroscience have given us unprecedented insight into how biases interfere with good decision-making. When it comes to leadership, biases create a 'sticky floor', making it hard for women to rise to the top. The good news is that the change to gender balance can be accelerated if you know more about how bias works.

In this book, Dr Karen Morley explains how biases, particularly the insidious unconscious ones, trip us up. She outlines an approach for minimising their impact in organisations, with Bias Busters - specific actions you can take with the goal of making it easier to notice, talk about and overcome bias.

BEAT GENDER BIAS is for leaders and all men and women who want a better working world. By creating an inclusive culture, organisations create personal, social and economic value that will sustain future success.

This book makes it clear how you can make a difference and play a bigger, more satisfying part in creating a more inclusive world.

Reviews

A must-read for anyone interested in reducing gender bias and creating an inclusive workplace.

Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Professor of Business Psychology at Columbia University and UCL

Beat Gender Bias is easy to read, data-rich, and informative.It provides practical and clear suggestions for achieving change.

Andrea Durrant, Managing Partner, Boards Global

A fantastic framework for raising awareness and identifying behaviours in ourselves and our teammates, and for challenging these head on.

Michael Schneider, Managing Director, Bunnings

Encouraging inclusion and listening are keys to leveraging the diversity dividend. Karen's book gives all leaders the tools we need to do this.

Paul Axup, CFO, Aurecon

Author Bio

Karen's vision is to amplify leadership impact. A critical way to do that is to make sure that everyone's talents are developed to the full. That's why inclusive leadership strategies and practices are core to her work. She is an authority on the benefits of gender balanced leadership and how to help women to succeed at work.

It's her own history of experiencing difference and exclusion that drives Karen's motivation to beat bias. She's working hard to help leaders understand the value of inclusive leadership to organisational as well as social outcomes.

Karen has helped organisations like Bunnings, CSL, Department of Education, Department of Justice, Downer, Fulton Hogan Australia, HASSELL, Melbourne Water, QBE, Officeworks, and the University of Melbourne on their diversity and inclusion programs.

She has previously published Gender-Balanced Leadership: An Executive Guide to help organisations be fairer and get great results and Lead like a Coach: How to Make the Most of Any Team (Major Street, 2018) to help