Coffee, Chat & Learn with with Dr. Miriam Kunze

“Unconscious Biases or the World in My Head”

Situation/Introduction

Miriam has been and is working as a team leader in research and development for multiple years in different companies. Within these positions she had been facing different, and sometimes difficult situations based on unconscious biases. Always asking herself how to overcome and getting aware of those, she participated in trainings about ‘diversity’. These trainings opened her eyes much wider than before and deepened the interest into unconscious biases.

Today Miriam likes to share these learnings with the net4tec network and participants to create ‘aha’-moments and supporting self reflection.

Key Learnings & Take Aways

1. What are unconscious biases?
2. Over 180 unconscious biases identified yet
3. Everyone has unconscious biases!
4. Cross-linking of instinct and unconscious biases
5. Tips to create awareness to self success.

About the speaker

After studying chemistry Miriam followed the red line towards battery development for electromobility from preparing her PhD-thesis on. Passing different job positions which were always linked to technical topics of material and product development, she continuously build up her knowledge starting from project leadership to a team lead and to being a sub-department leader today.

Miriam is one of net4tec’s role models and represents that there is always an opportunity to develop, especially within a great network like net4tec.