About the Author

Dr. Kim Stephens is the founder of Inclusive Thinking - a consulting company dedicated to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion through research, education, and strategic planning. Before founding Inclusive Thinking, she had a twenty-year career with IBM, most recently as the Global Diversity & Inclusion Communication and Education Lead. She has spoken at conferences around the world and conducted workshops on unconscious bias, cultural awareness, women's leadership, accessibility, rare disease, and clinical trials.

Stephens earned her doctorate in business from Georgia State University and focused her research on implicit bias and the role of transformational conversation and social identity on behavioral change. www.inclusivethinking.org