Leading Through Bias

Dr. Poornima Luthra is the founder and CEO of TalentED Consultancy ApS as well as Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. She has spent the last fifteen years researching and teaching university courses in the field of talent management, with a focus on Diversity and Inclusion. Poornima’s work in DEI focuses on expanding the dimensions of diversity we address with an emphasis on intersectionality, empowering individuals to be active allies of inclusion and enabling inclusive leadership. Poornima is the recipient of the Professional Women of Colour Denmark 2021 Impact award, and a finalist in the Trailblazer category of the Nordic Blaze Inclusion Awards.Sara Louise Muhr is Professor at Copenhagen Business School. She is also Academic Director of the CBS Business in Society Platform ‘Diversity and Difference’ and serves on the board of directors of Copenhagen Business   School. Her  research   focuses  on    critical   perspectives   on managerial identity, leadership and HRM, especially in relation to issues around coping with diversity and expectations to employees and leaders in modern, flexible ways of working. Following this broader aim, she has worked with various empirical settings such as management consultancy, prisons, the military and police force, pole dance studios and executive networks where she has engaged with issues such as power, culture, emotional labor, gender, ethnicity, migration, and work-life balance. Sara’s work has materialized in several published books and has appeared in journals such as Organization Studies; Human Relations; Organization;Gender, Work and Organization; Human Resource Management Review, Culture & Organization as well as Leadership.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Leading with Conviction - Believing in the Value of DEI.- Chapter 3: Leading with Clarity (Part I - Understanding the Basics of Bias and Identity Bias).- Chapter 4: Leading with Clarity (Part II - Situation-related Cognitive Bias and the Impact of Bias).- Chapter 5: Leading with Accountability – Addressing Systemic Bias.- Chapter 6:  Leading with Allyship – Moving Beyond Tolerance and Obligation.- Chapter 7: Leading with Strength - Showing Vulnerability.- Final Thoughts.- Recommended Resources.- References.