Angela Hood joins Smart Talks Podcast, Hosted by Malcolm Gladwell

Smart Talks with IBM

Combatting hiring bias: recruiting a diverse workforce with intelligent automation Intelligent automation can help combat the human biases that can lead to discriminatory hiring practices. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell takes on this topic with Jacob Goldstein, host of What’s Your Problem, and guest Angela Hood, founder and CEO of … Read more

Podcast: Female Founding, Google Accelerating, and Whiskey! 

Podcast: Female Founding, Google Accelerating, and Whiskey!

Our team had the pleasure of participating in this year’s HR Tech Conference held September 13th -16th at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. While there, our very own Angela Hood, CEO and Founder of ThisWay Global, sat down with fellow HR Tech pros  Joel Cheesman and Chad Sowash for a LIVE recording of Chad & … Read more

How Diversity Improves Business Performance and ROI

How Diversity Improves Business Performance and ROI

Most people usually equate diversity to race, age, or gender, ignoring the less visible but equally important dimensions such as political beliefs or even communication style. The truth is that diversity comes in many shapes and sizes. Other attributes such as religion or sexual orientation are just as relevant and meaningful when it comes to … Read more

AI Often Adds To Bias In Recruiting—But There’s A New Approach That Could Change The Game

AI Often Adds To Bias In Recruiting

Most people aren’t trying to be biased, but bias is inherent—it influences how we view any situation, often unconsciously. When you think of bias, characteristics like race, gender, and religion likely come to mind. But there’s a much broader context of what bias can actually be. Bias comes in many forms. For example, the halo effect occurs … Read more

Diversity of Thought – What Is It & Why Does it Matter?

Diversity of Thought

Original Source: Newton Brown, Business Development Representative, ThisWay Global. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein Here at ThisWay we’ve created technology that uses artificial intelligence to remove bias from the hiring … Read more

Why Diversity and Inclusion Are More Important Than Ever

Why Diversity and Inclusion Are More Important Than Ever

In less than a hundred days of being sworn into office, United States President, Donald Trump, has already signed three strict executive orders related to immigration. One policy, in particular, restricts all immigrants from seven Muslim countries and indefinitely bars all Syrian refugees from entering the US.

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How Diversity Improves Business Performance and ROI

How Diversity Improves Business Performance and ROI

Most people usually equate diversity to race, age, or gender, ignoring the less visible but equally important dimensions such as political beliefs or even communication style. The truth is that diversity comes in many shapes and sizes. Other attributes such as religion or sexual orientation are just as relevant and meaningful when it comes to defining true diversity.

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