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Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Leader
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Taz Latif
Taz spent over 4 years as a teacher before making the move to hire global teams in the Startup space. Frustrated with the lack of diversity and inclusion in her industry, she began to focus her efforts onto more strategic hiring – educating founders and leaders on the importance of mental health, wellbeing, race, religion, culture, gender, neurodiversity and so on. She’s now a full-time Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing Consultant and public speaker, delivering workshops from school students to CEOs and speaking to international audiences. Taz has collaborated with the likes of GoogleForStartups, Ministry of Justice, Facebook, Financial Times, Expedia, TechInclusion and Bloomberg. In her spare time, she’s an EnrolYourself alumni, part- time spin instructor, conqueror of Kilimanjaro, charity skydiver and a huge foodie.
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During Taz's session ‘inclusive thinking’ you’ll learn to understand the impact of unconscious bias. You’ll learn about the benefits of stereotyping, how it actually helps you survive in daily life and how you can try to limit its side-effects. Because your brain constantly links new images to existing information. It does so to shape order in the world around you. However, such information categorisation is often rather short-sighted and that causes all sorts of problems and challenges. In this interactive session, Taz discloses how our brains work and what we can do to improve our judgement.
What does being an ‘Ally’ mean? From case studies to the Wheel of Power and Privilege, this interactive session will take you through a journey of understanding our own power and how we can leverage these to become effective allies, both in the workplace and in other areas of our lives. You can test your own role, learn about various biases and most importantly, how you can become an ally. The key to being an ally is to take action. It is not good enough to say ‘I am an ally’. You have to demonstrate behaviours and only by taking action will we see real change happen. To be an ally you need to be curious and be continuously learning and asking questions. In this interactive session, Taz encourages you to ask questions and learn about different cultures. And not to assume – just because one person you know from that culture does something it doesn’t mean it is the norm and everyone will be the same.
Having white privilege and recognising it is not racist. But white privilege exists because of historic, enduring racism and biases. White privilege is not the assumption that everything a white person has accomplished is unearned; most white people who have reached a high level of success worked extremely hard to get there. Instead, white privilege should be viewed as a built-in advantage, separate from one’s level of income or effort. In this interactive session Taz shows her audience how white privilege plays an important role in all of our lives. You can test your own role, learn about various biases and most importantly, how you can become an ally.