

Everyone's heard of 'unconscious bias' training, but what about 'disrupting bias' training? Trisha Walsh, the Director, IT at Yelp, one of the worlds largest crowd-sourced review platforms, is here to explain the difference, and dive into how disrupting bias training impacts the end user...
Everyone's heard of 'unconscious bias' training, but what about 'disrupting bias' training? Trisha Walsh, the Director, IT at Yelp, one of the worlds largest crowd-sourced review platforms, is here to explain the difference, and dive into how disrupting bias training impacts the end user support organization for Yelp's nearly 6,000+ employees.
Trisha Walsh, Director IT at Yelp. Trisha leads the end user support organization for the company's 6,000+ employees. Trisha is responsible for ensuring all internal customers get a 5 Star Customer Service experience to be their most productive selves.
I work in an environment that looks to "fit" as a significant component of hiring -- but we're not very diverse, so in my experience "fit" tends to reinforce discrimination. How would you suggest...
Neurodiversity is something a lot of organizations don't understand, let alone consider when constructing team policies/norms. How do we encourage awareness without forcing neurodivergent to...
Review sites tend to favor established white businesses more than those owned/targeting people of color. How do you account for the biases of public reviewers?
Are there things we should look for when we're interviewing for a new role that could help us see the level of bias a company (or department, or specific person) has before we get into the organization?
How do you best demonstrate the need and benefits of disrupting biases, especially to those who don't believe they have them or that they're a problem? In other words, where to begin. :)
Want to be aware of these biases and know how to handle them when I’m job searching
Women are sometimes told that they do not speak up enough in meetings—perhaps women do speak up—they are just not heard. Can you comment on this and provide strategies to be better “heard” in meetings?
Do women and men have different reactions to tone, detail, or other specific modalities when it comes to communication? In my experience this is gender specific and not so much...
How do you get a supervisor to be more aware of their biases against women without getting written up?
How to navigate if you feel like a person next to you is having a bias? How to navigate this and is it your place to say something and what is the most effective way to do that?
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