Using AI and data to drive equity with Pipeline CEO Katica Roy

This week’s eye opening episode of Leading Real Change talks all thing equity with CEO and gender economist Katica Roy of Pipeline. Pipeline offers natural language processing to detect bias in promotion review documents and then presents managers with the results. This changes the conversation from are you unintentionally perpetuating bias, to are you intentionally choosing to make inequitable promotional decisions? Our conversation ranged from the challenges of being a breadwinner mom, how to talk to girls about the barriers they’ll face in the workplace, the money wasted on unconscious bias training, and how to focus on designing equitable systems of hiring, promotion, pay, performance etc. Given how many women are discovering through pay transparency laws that they have been paid less and that their female bosses have also made decisions to reward the potential of men more than women, this conversation is long overdue.