99 Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives with Minal Bopaiah | Greater Washington DC DMV Changemaker

In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Minal Bopaiah. Minal is the founder of Brevity & Wit, a strategy and design firm that helps organizations achieve the change they wish to see in the world through a unique approach that combines human-centered design, behavior change science, and the principles of inclusion diversity, equity, and accessibility. Minal Bopaiah discusses her book Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives and shares frameworks and approaches for leading a more equitable organization.     Some highlights: - Minal Bopaiah on the tie-in between implicit bias and systemic issues faced in tackling inequity.   - How our biases impact algorithms, including those used by human resource departments for recruiting and hiring.   - Minal Bopaiah on the difference between equity and equality. - The role that design thinking can play in greater equity in organizations.  - How leaders can redesign systems to ensure greater equity.       Mentioned: - Rajan Patel – Co-founder, CEO at Dent Education - Dan Heath and Chip Heath – Authors, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard. - Johnnetta Betsch Cole – Author, Racism in American Public Life. - Valarie Kaur – Author, See No Stranger - Karen Armstrong – Author, The Spiral Staircase - Partnering Leadership Podcast Conversation with Howard Ross – Author, Everyday Bias   Connect with Minal Bopaiah: Brevity & Wit on Instagram Minal Bopaiah on Instagram Brevity and Wit on Twitter Minal Bopaiah on Twitter Minal Bopaiah on LinkedIn   Connect with Mahan Tavakoli: MahanTavakoli.com   More information and resources available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website:  PartneringLeadership.com   Connect with Mahan Tavakoli: Mahan Tavakoli Website Mahan Tavakoli on LinkedIn Partnering Leadership Website