What Bias Water are You Swimming in that is Ruining Your Life.
Uncover Hidden Biases Impacting Your Life
Explore and address unconscious biases that may be influencing your decisions and relationships, leading to personal and professional growth.
A FISH IN WATER
Working on a subliminal level in the brain, our biases affect our ability to look at the world around us. A simple example can be made of a fish that is in water. An old Chinese proverb says that a fish is the last one to know what water is. In this way, our biases can make us lose sight of the environment we live in—and often, it's value.
Working with asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru shook me – then a Salvation Army Minister– to the core. With an inherent belief I did not carry personal bias, the alternately confronting and rich experiences created in me an incredible level of awareness of the significant impact individual and corporate stories have on how we perceive the world.
I am determined to make bias conscious in the workplace. Rather than aiming to eliminate unconscious bias, we must accept that we are a result of our environment, inherently biased, and are better served finding and making those biases conscious, and then developing targeted strategies to drive successful growth and change.