How to get past any bias that is making it difficult for mediators (and any other professionals) make a good living. The focus of this presentation is on women but anyone who is not the "default" white male.

2. 1. Pick a characteristic
2. Blow it completely out
of proportion
3. Collapse the whole
person into the
characteristic
4. Ignore individual
differences and
variations
5. Ignore subtleties and
complexities
6. Ignore our common
humanity
7. Make it match your
own worst fears
8. Make it cruel

3. Implicit Bias from Harvard’s Project Implicit
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6. Step 2: “Woman’s” Niche?

8. Step 4:
Content Is
Queen

11. Step 7:
Create Your
Own
Networks

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high profile marketing
more women on ADR panels
5 women on every list of 10
education and training
leadership, networking,
business development power
and access to power
• improve standing of
professional counterparts in
business, the judiciary, law
firms, public legal practice,
politics and ADR