E59: How to Recognize and Mitigate Bias in the Workplace with Rahimeh Ramezany

How to Recognize and Mitigate Bias in the Workplace with Rahimeh Ramezany
This episode, I’m joined by Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Intercultural Practitioner Rahimeh Ramezany to discuss where our biases originate from, how to tackle interpersonal biases within yourself, and ways you can use social media to reduce your biases.

• The importance of being able to bring your full authentic self to the workplace.
• The common stereotypes placed on Muslim women.
• How to break down common biases against Muslims in the workplace.
• The emotional toll DEI work takes on you.
• Where our biases originate from.
• How to tackle interpersonal biases within yourself.
• The difference between being called in and called out.
• How American culture has Americanized language.
• How to use social media to reduce your bias.

• Rahimeh Ramezany Consulting
• StaffGeek

• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• TikTok
• Instagram
• YouTube

• Lindsay Patton on LinkedIn
• Lindsay Patton by Email

Quotables:

• 14:00 “Talking about an area of marginalization and trying to advocate for your group has an extra little layer of stress, emotional tax is what in DEI spaces we refer to it as.”
• 18:24 “Interacting with different kinds of people is so important so you can further deconstruct biases you have but without putting on the other person to educate you for yourself instead of you taking on the work of doing that.”
• 19:30 “If we know that we’re not growing up under environments that are perfect and keeping us free of biases and biases are generally natural shortcuts in our brains to be like oh this happened and this happened so my brain makes a shortcut saying that if this happened or if I see this kind of person or if these kinds of circumstances happen then jump to this conclusion instead of having to do the math every single time from scratch. Our brains inherently are trying to find shortcuts so again looking at our natural inclinations and not being like we’re inherently evil and malicious people so therefore I need to hate on myself, no. Again our brains are naturally wired to try and do less thinking so we have to actively push ourselves to think more and be more critically minded.”