Good intentions do not check every decision

The familiar candidate gets the benefit of the doubt. A quiet employee is labelled as lacking confidence. A recent mistake overshadows months of good work. Unconscious bias training makes room to examine those judgments without putting people on trial.

Where bias shows up

• Affinity bias: favouring people who feel familiar
• Gender and age bias: assumptions about ability and ambition
• Halo and horn effects: allowing one trait or incident to define a person
• Confirmation bias: accepting evidence that supports an existing view
• Authority bias: treating seniority as a substitute for a sound argument

From recognition to a different response

Sutapa's material includes snap-judgment exercises, scenario discussions and rewrites of job descriptions and performance-review language. It examines how clear criteria, wider perspectives and respectful questions can interrupt bias in everyday decisions.

The situations worth practising

A colleague is interrupted. A candidate is dismissed as a poor "fit". An idea loses its original owner. Participants consider what a manager or peer could say, and how to respond without humiliating the person involved.

Why Sutapa

A former Director General of Police and the first woman to hold that rank in Uttar Pradesh, Sutapa Sanyal brings experience of authority, institutional decisions and working in a profession where few women held senior roles. She connects the subject with how responsibility, recognition and opportunity are shared.

Shaped to your organisation and audience

Sutapa works with employees, managers, HR teams and interview panels. The focus and session format are shaped to your organisation and audience, around what the client wants to address.

Format and scope

Sessions are available in person or online. Duration, group size and scope are tailored to the client.

Discuss unconscious bias training

Share the audience and the decisions that need attention. Discuss an unconscious bias session with Sutapa.