• Uncover places within your organization where workers are evaluated from a personal rather than objective perspective.
• Stay open to listening to people within your organization who may challenge the usual way of doing things, recognizing that you may have blind spots when it comes to bias.
• Consider enacting a form of affirmative action, prioritizing the addition of and support for those who are underrepresented within the organization at all levels.
• Partner with people who have expertise in bias reduction to come up with new ways of doing things, rather than relying solely on past expertise.

Bias exists, in part, because our brains naturally seek shortcuts for understanding our complicated world. We categorize things we encounter in life (including people) and then absorb “cultural knowledge” (including societal beliefs and attitudes toward different groups of people...