After suggesting to my company’s diversity and inclusion committee that we should celebrate Africa Day at work, I realised my journey had been one of navigating through the unconscious biases we all hold about one another, in our communities and in the workplace.

In the workplace, irrelevant factors such as age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, weight, and even hair can often impact on hiring or promotion decisions made about hiring or promoting people.

But letting these unconscious biases influence decision-making often result in missed opportunities across the board.

So, what is unconscious bias anyway? Unconscious biases are…

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