Unconscious bias lives in everyone. For leaders, it’s exceedingly important to learn to mitigate that bias before it negatively impacts decision-making.

There are two key habits leaders can build in their cultures to promote speaking up: minimizing a threat state in speakers and those being spoken to.

When the right people come together, teams can think and act more efficiently. At NLI, we call this balance “optimal inclusion.”

Every meeting contains some mixture of extroverts and introverts — people who speak up and those who keep quiet. Here’s how to raise quiet voices.