Powerful Questions for Leaders, no. 11


How do your implicit biases affect the success of your team(s) and organization(s)

Leaders are in a unique position to interrupt implicit bias, but first we need to know what our own implicit biases are (after all, we all have them).

Try the Implicit Association Test (IAT) from Project Implicit, Inc. at Harvard University to uncover your own implicit biases – remember, we all have them. Then share what you discovered and how your will interrupt your biases moving forward.


Video: https://www.ted.com/talks/joan_c_williams_why_corporate_diversity_programs_fail_and_how_small_tweaks_can_have_big_impact

Interrupting implicit bias: https://hbr.org/2019/11/how-the-best-bosses-interrupt-bias-on-their-teams


Implicit Association Test (IAT): https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html