Click here tor register for the - 2020 General Meeting (October)  As a Leader, How Can You Interrupt Racial Bias in the Legal Workplace?

The Diversity and Inclusion Committee is pleased to present Ritu Bhasin as our speaker at our next General Meeting, via Zoom.  She will be presenting on, “As a Leader, How Can You Interrupt Racial Bias in the Legal Workplace?”

In this pivotal moment where there is a spotlight racial injustice, many leaders are expressing a commitment to being more racially inclusive and a desire to attain more tools and frameworks for interrupting racial bias in the workplace. In this workshop, inclusion expert Ritu Bhasin will delve deep into all of this and why racial bias lives in our bodies and minds, how it manifests in the workplace and what to do about it. Topics covered in this workshop will include the following:

• Acknowledging and understanding systems of racial supremacy, power and privilege
• Key allyship concepts in the context of racial inclusion 
• How to create safe spaces for difficult discussions around racial bias 
• Critical behavioral changes that leaders must make in order to interrupt racial bias 
• Building resilience: why living in more of an embodied and mindful way is paramount for interrupting racial bias and how you can make this happen 
• Practical strategies for interrupting racial bias and better serving as an ally

Ritu Bhasin, LL.B. MBA, President of bhasin consulting inc., is an award-winning speaker, author, and expert in diversity and inclusion, women’s advancement, and authentic leadership. Her Amazon bestselling book, The Authenticity Principle: Resist Conformity, Embrace Differences, and Transform How You Live Work, and Lead, was released in fall 2017.