A couple of weeks ago I was asked to explain the concept of multidirectional workplace bias. I gave an example of a time, twenty years ago when I wrongly sensed racial bias towards me from a prospect C suite decision maker that asked me to present to his management team. I sensed racial bias towards…

At times when I write or speak about multidirectional unconscious bias in the workplace;  in particular ‘reverse bias’, some critics feel or fear: I’m letting off conscious/unconscious perpetrators of racial closely followed by gender, disability, age  and sexual orientation bias etc. That I as an ethnic minority am exacerbating the problem, emboldening perpetrators and relieving…