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Carmel Saad Consulting, LLC has helped organizations across a wide variety of sectors address racial disparities in their fields. The CSC team helps organizations better support underrepresented community members and mitigate the impact of bias in constructive ways. Aside from leading workshops on implicit bias and how to mitigate its impact in the workplace, she also facilitates workshops on cultural competence and proficiency, multicultural awareness, microaggressions, and other topics relevant in the topic of diversity, inclusion, equity, and access. Dr. Saad’s team works to understand organizations’ specific needs before training them on how to address those needs in an evidence-based way. They aim to understand how to disrupt the impact of bias on behavior, in an effort to reduce disparities in real-world outcomes. She has adopted an evidence-based framework to help individuals and organizations combat the effects of prejudice in their specific functional areas. 

Throughout the design and implementation of their workshops, Dr. Saad and her team rely heavily on prejudice and discrimination research to demonstrate how biases can have serious consequences on behavior at an individual level and can contribute to larger disparities at both an organizational and systemic level. They use a multifaceted, evidence-based prejudice attenuation and prevention program that frames prejudice as a habit that can be broken and replaced with better habits (Devine et al., 2012). They expand awareness of prejudice and its outcomes, focusing on how certain biases can lead individuals to unwittingly perpetuate discrimination. They equip participants with evidence-based strategies to disrupt the effects of bias on behavior and mitigate its impact. They give participants an opportunity to discuss and practice the strategies within the context of their own organizational roles. Moreover, Dr. Saad’s research team often empirically assess the effectiveness of their implicit bias training programs. This team summarizes the findings of their research and share their recommendations with organizational leaders.