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The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast#169: Bias in the Workspace with Michele RuizMichele is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and sought-after speaker at conferences around the world. Michele’s wide range of ventures include co-founding BiasSync, a science-based technology company designed to enable organizations to effectively assess and manage unconscious bias in the work environment. She is a trusted advisor to senior executives at Fortune 20 multinational corporations and some of today’s highest profile thought leaders and elected officials. Michele’s passions range from mitigating unconscious bias using scientifically validated methodologies to exploring leading-edge technologies. She is widely recognized and sought out as a subject matter expert in empowerment, entrepreneurship, sophisticated communication strate...2024-09-0926 min
DistinguishedLeadership Series: How to Identify a Positive, Values-Based Organizational CultureIf you have ever worked in a toxic workplace, you have learned the hard way that dysfunctional organizational cultures are harmful and hinder employee performance. Taylor Peyton, Ph.D., senior organizational psychologist for BiasSync, and co-founder of Mojo Moments, defines organizational culture as “a force, both visible and invisible, that massively influences employee behavior and an organization’s chance of success.” Telltale signs of a good, thriving work culture go well beyond a company’s stocked kitchen, modern office lounges, flexible work schedules, and other perks. Learn in this podcast how to see beneath a company's shiny veneer by l...2024-01-2224 min
BEYOND BARRIERSEpisode 248: Making an Impact and Affecting Change with Michele Ruiz, CEO, Co-Founder of BiasSyncMichele Ruiz has seemingly done it all. But in reality, while she’s been very successful in multiple fields, she’s really an expert at bringing the right people together to fulfill the vision at hand. Michele’s background is in broadcasting and has had a very successful career as a news anchor. She wanted to make an impact through broadcasting by affecting change and worked toward helping other Latinas in the industry. However, she’s an entrepreneur at heart and found herself co-founding a science-based technology company focused on enabling organizations to effectively assess and manage unconscio...2023-01-2541 min
People Business w/ O'Brien McMahonWe Are All Biased w/ Michele RuizMichele Ruiz is an entrepreneur, award-winning broadcast journalist, author, public speaker, and former Los Angeles news anchor for KNBC-TV. She is co-founder and CEO of BiasSync, a SaaS technology company that helps organizations identify and eliminate biases in the workplace. Mentioned in this Episode: Michele Ruiz on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheleruiz1/BiasSync - https://biassync.com/Ruiz Strategies - https://www.ruizstrategies.com/Black couple ‘Whitewashes’ home during Appraisal - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/06/black-couple-home-value-white-washing/ Podcast Movement Issues Apology over Ben Shapiro Appearance - https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/2022/08/25/podcast-movement-apologizes-for-ben-shapiros-presence-at-its-dallas-convention/Time Co...2022-10-2557 min
The Workspan PodcastConsciously Rooting out Unconscious Bias: a Conversation with BiasSync CEO Michele RuizWe're joined by Michele Ruiz, co-founder and CEO of BiasSync, a science-based approach to combatting unconscious bias in the workplace. She speaks about her journey from the anchor chair (she was an award-winning broadcast journalist) to serial entrepreneur (BiasSync is her third company) and the ways organizations can systematically identify and address unconscious bias. 2022-04-1943 min
Real GoodJust Admitting It Isn't Enough with Lynda NegronIn the second episode of our second season, we speak with Lynda Negron, Product Director at BiasSync, about how biased corporate structures can create a lack of opportunity at every level, the ways experiencing bias can affect your life in and outside of work, and how you can combat your own biases.
2021-01-2758 min
My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark GoulstonEp - 161 Michele RuizIn this episode I speak with Emmy winning television journalist, entrepreneur and CEO of BiasSync, Michele Ruiz, about her waking up to seeing and experiencing discrimination and her calling to do something to overcome it. http://biassync.com2021-01-1746 min
Make Things That Matter#19: Dan Gould — Fighting unconscious bias and attacking systemic problems with entrepreneurshipPeople, books, companies, resources etc mentioned in episodeBiasSync Dan Gould Michele Ruiz Robin RichardsKey concepts Unconscious Bias Humanism Diversity, Inclusion, Equity Microaggressions Cognitive Science System 1 & 2 thinking (Daniel Kahneman) The doll test Information theory Customer development Gall's Law - complex working systems evolve from simple working systems Land & expand "First, ten" - Seth GodinBooks & resources Blindspot White Fragility Thinking, Fast and Slow Harvard Implicit Bias test Onlyness The Lean Startup Outcomes Over Output Testing Business Ideas Other episodes Josh Seiden: How to create clarity and lead strategically with outcomes...2020-06-161h 13