Bias Is Hurting Your Bottom Line, Here's How We Fix It | Anu Gupta

In this episode, we are joined by Anu Gupta, a sought-after expert in breaking bias, behavior change, and well-being.

For the last 50 years or so, companies have spent billions of dollars and billions of hours trying to address the challenges of bias, inequity, diversity, and inclusion. Noticing this, Anu’s curiosity led him down a path to figure out why these companies weren’t making any headway.

What he realized is that the work of addressing bias is one of behavior change — behavior change of individuals, teams, and of organizations.

In this episode, Dart and Anu tackle the question of bias. They discuss what's being lost in our society, economy, and businesses because of bias, the difference between conscious and unconscious bias, the root causes of systemic racism in the U.S., interventions to measurably reduce bias in the workplace, the relationship between bias and belonging, and so much more.

Topics Include:
- Why should you care about bias as a leader
- Bias in the legal system
- Defining transitional justice
- Four foundations of mindfulness
- Examples of how biases are unique to different societies
- The Racial Empathy Gap
- Prosocial behavior
- PRISM — The Five Tools to Break Bias
- Corporate structure models for L3C’s and B Corps
- And other topics…

Anu Gupta is a lawyer, educator, scientist, and the Founder of BE MORE with Anu. He founded BE MORE in 2014 after seeing the social and financial harms of bias to individuals, organizations, and communities firsthand. He foresaw the numerous possibilities available when people have access to mindfulness practices and scientific wisdom. He synthesized his skills as an attorney, research scientist, and a meditation teacher to build programs centered on advancing equity and belonging unlike any that existed before.

A peer-reviewed author and the principal investigator behind BE MORE’s research, Anu is a sought-after expert in breaking bias, behavior change, and well-being. He has extensively written and spoken about this work, including on the TED stage, SXSW, the Oprah Conversation, Fast Company, and Newsweek. Prior to founding BE MORE, he worked as an attorney, a research scientist, and a middle school teacher in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Anu is a trained mindfulness and yoga teacher (500-hours) and his meditations can be found on the Insight Timer, Open, and the Ten Percent Happier meditation apps. He also serves as a Systems Designer for Penn State Dickinson Law’s Antiracist Development Institute (ADI).

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Resources Mentioned:
BE MORE with Anu: https://bemorewithanu.com/
@bemorewithanu on all social channels
Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT): https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari: https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095

Work with Dart:
Dart is the CEO and co-founder of the work design firm 11fold. Build work that makes employees feel alive, connected to their work, and focused on what’s most important to the business. Book a call at 11fold.com.