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

Partnering Leadership

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

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