Breaking Through Bias In The Workplace with Andie Kramer

May 23, 2024

Andie Kramer, lawyer, author, advocate, and founding member of ASKramer Law, joins us to talk about breaking through bias in the workplace.

Today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Andie Kramer, lawyer, author, advocate, and founding member of ASKramer Law, LLC. Over the years, she has written and spoken extensively about gender biases in the workplace alongside her husband, Al Harris. We’re excited to have her on the show today to share insights from her books Breaking Through Bias, It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace, and Beyond Bias.

In this episode, we focus on gender bias in the workplace and the role of both men and women in driving meaningful change. Andie highlights some of the challenges women face in male-dominated industries and shares empowering strategies for women to assert their presence and voice in professional settings. She also discusses how organizations can proactively address biases in their policies and practices to ensure everyone feels valued and heard.

Here’s some of what we discuss in this episode:

1:08 – Andie’s journey to writing books for women in the workplace
9:38 – Self-awareness and confidence-building techniques
15:40 – Strategies for organizations to focus on inclusion and combat biases
26:20 – Getting men involved in the conversation

Learn a little more about Andie:

Andie has mentored thousands of women and written hundreds of articles and blog posts on gender biases. Because mentorship opportunities for young executive and professional women are often limited, she co-founded the Women’s Leadership and Mentoring Alliance (WLMA) to recruit senior women to mentor and support younger women on their way up. She has developed a series of leadership training programs and is a frequent speaker on the issue of gender discrimination and bias.

Andie speaks frequently to audiences about how to break through gender bias in the workplace. She draws on her professional and business experience to provide audiences with realistic, detailed, and readily usable advice. Andie and her husband, Al, are the co-authors of three award-winning books, and contributing writers to Harvard Business Review’s On Women and Leadership (2019). Andie is also a contributing writer on gender issues in the workplace for Forbes.com, and has been featured on The HuffPost, The New York Times, NBC News, and more.