Date & Time
12:00pm CST - 1:00pm CST
About This Event
The Office Rehab: Changing the Wallpaper for More Successful Inclusion
Is there anyone who didn’t go through implicit bias training pre-Pandemic? Indeed, there was a time when it felt like those efforts we used to call “DEI” were all about implicit bias. One thing we learned is that training can be helpful to raise awareness about bias, but training alone is insufficient to prevent or minimize bias in the workplace. Many workplaces also introduced bias interrupters in key processes such as recruiting, promotions, and compensation. That helped, but just as those efforts were taking hold, the legal profession and the country received a massive external shock coming from Washington that significantly impacted all work in this area.
So, while the legal profession may now be better attuned to the existence of biases both explicit and implicit, the reality has proven that awareness of that existence, despite the best intentions, is insufficient to eliminate those biases. And so, the status quo was maintained.
But, how do we reconcile the status quo with all the research that tells us that diverse teams that are also managed inclusively get better results? What can we do to achieve better inclusion so that we can enable diverse teams to work more effectively together to offer clients the best results and give us a competitive advantage?
At the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession (“IILP”), we weren’t about to let complacency stop us. Instead, when we found a researcher who, like us, wasn’t satisfied with the status quo and believed that somehow, some way, there was a means to do better. And that’s when we were introduced to Dr. Nilanjana (Buju) Dasgupta.
Dr. Dasgupta is Provost Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We read her book, Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities in one sitting. We couldn’t put it down because it seems that she may have discovered a different way to think about and address the challenges that biases bring that could be adapted to more meaningfully advance efforts to make the legal profession truly inclusive. We think you may find it as intriguing and promising as we do.
As a supporter of IILP, we’d like to invite you to a virtual introduction to Dr. Dasgupta and her research and work. If you’re as intrigued as we are, you and others from your organization can later join us for a more in-depth in-person presentation in either New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, or Silicon Valley. And, afterwards, if you’d like to learn more about how you might integrate the strategies Dr. Dasgupta has identified, you and others from your organization will have an opportunity to either participate in virtual training sessions or have the option to have IILP and Dr. Dasgupta work with you on an assessment with recommendations specifically tailored to your organization.
A limited numer of scholarships are available; contact info@theiilp.com for more information.
About This Event
The Office Rehab: Changing the Wallpaper for More Successful Inclusion
Is there anyone who didn’t go through implicit bias training pre-Pandemic? Indeed, there was a time when it felt like those efforts we used to call “DEI” were all about implicit bias. One thing we learned is that training can be helpful to raise awareness about bias, but training alone is insufficient to prevent or minimize bias in the workplace. Many workplaces also introduced bias interrupters in key processes such as recruiting, promotions, and compensation. That helped, but just as those efforts were taking hold, the legal profession and the country received a massive external shock coming from Washington that significantly impacted all work in this area.
So, while the legal profession may now be better attuned to the existence of biases both explicit and implicit, the reality has proven that awareness of that existence, despite the best intentions, is insufficient to eliminate those biases. And so, the status quo was maintained.
But, how do we reconcile the status quo with all the research that tells us that diverse teams that are also managed inclusively get better results? What can we do to achieve better inclusion so that we can enable diverse teams to work more effectively together to offer clients the best results and give us a competitive advantage?
At the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession (“IILP”), we weren’t about to let complacency stop us. Instead, when we found a researcher who, like us, wasn’t satisfied with the status quo and believed that somehow, some way, there was a means to do better. And that’s when we were introduced to Dr. Nilanjana (Buju) Dasgupta.
Dr. Dasgupta is Provost Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We read her book, Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities in one sitting. We couldn’t put it down because it seems that she may have discovered a different way to think about and address the challenges that biases bring that could be adapted to more meaningfully advance efforts to make the legal profession truly inclusive. We think you may find it as intriguing and promising as we do.
As a supporter of IILP, we’d like to invite you to a virtual introduction to Dr. Dasgupta and her research and work. If you’re as intrigued as we are, you and others from your organization can later join us for a more in-depth in-person presentation in either New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, or Silicon Valley. And, afterwards, if you’d like to learn more about how you might integrate the strategies Dr. Dasgupta has identified, you and others from your organization will have an opportunity to either participate in virtual training sessions or have the option to have IILP and Dr. Dasgupta work with you on an assessment with recommendations specifically tailored to your organization.
A limited numer of scholarships are available; contact info@theiilp.com for more information.
Date & Time
12:00pm CST - 1:00pm CST