Lincoln: Unconscious bias led to building a Barre3 leadership team resembling herself
Sadie Lincoln · How I Built Resilience: Live with Sadie Lincoln · Jun 20, 2020 · at 14:44
Sadie Lincoln, founder of fitness brand barre3, reflects on confronting personal bias and systemic racism during the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement.
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“Confronting my own white bias around that, that has led to me unconsciously building a company of leaders who look a lot like me, and realizing that systemic racism is real, and just even understanding that, and that we have been conditioned for hundreds of years around systemic racism.”
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