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Negotiating unconscious bias in the workplace

“DIVERSITY IS being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.” With that generally helpful phrase, Diversity Consulting director Bev Cassidy-McKenzie recently opened a half-day workshop on unconscious bias in the workplace.

I was part of Bev’s 20-strong audience comprised of my academic and professional colleagues from Auckland University of Technology’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Law.

Over the course of three hours, colleagues joined Bev in navigating the sometimes steep, often unexpected pathways of

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