James Kinney is a bi-coastal HR executive, author, and speaker.
Kinney has over 13 years of experience as an in-house practitioner and external consultant.
[Implicit biases] affect everything in the workplace frompromotionsto whos hired to whos fired.

[Implicit biases] affect everything in the workplace from promotions, to whos hired, to whos fired.
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Akilah Cadet, DHSc, MPH, is a diversity educator and activist who holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Education in Community Based Public Health, a Master of Public Health, and a Doctorate of Health Sciences in Leadership and Organizational Behavior.
That, he says, is the importance of implicit bias training.
One example of an implicit bias training exercise is something she calls the cultural iceberg activity.
Although a lot of people think icebergs are big, the majority of the iceberg is underwater.
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So 10 percent is above the waterthats what you’ve got the option to see.
You dont know I have shortness of breath.
When I share those things, I can minimize stereotypes.

Someone else may share something about them afterward.
The iceberg trainingand, more generally, implicit bias trainingis a bang out of empathy work.
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