Fixing ourselves is hard: Iris Bohnet on solving bias in the workplace

Published: Oct. 16, 2019, 11 a.m.

Iris Bohnet is a behavioral economist, a leading researcher into gender bias, and Harvard Kennedy School's academic dean. She\u2019s got some tough advice for the world\u2019s biggest governments, corporations, and organizations: Stop wasting money on traditional diversity training programs, because they don\u2019t work. But Dean Bohnet tells host Thoko Moyo that there's also good news: By focusing on fixing processes rather than people, we can create workarounds that solve for our stubborn biases.