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The Emerging AI Divide: When Unequal Enablement Creates Unequal Opportunity
Why the next workplace inequality may not come from biased algorithms—but from how organisations implement AI. For the past two years, organisations have focused on an important question: Can artificial intelligence discriminate? The evidence suggests it can. Research has shown that AI systems can reproduce or amplify bias embedded in training data, system design and …
Read MoreRethinking Unconscious Bias: The Necessary Systemic Component
For years, unconscious bias has been explained through a simple story. The human brain receives more information than it can fully process. It therefore uses shortcuts to make rapid judgements. Some of those shortcuts draw on stereotypes and associations outside our conscious awareness. These hidden biases can then influence our decisions. There is some truth …
Read MoreThe Uneasy Truth Behind High Potential
Many organisations have matured their talent systems over the past decade. Performance frameworks are embedded, calibration routines are familiar, and leadership competency models are widely used to anchor expectations. Yet one topic continues to generate discomfort in executive conversations: the idea of “high-potential” talent. For some leaders, the term carries the implication of exclusivity, a …
Read MoreThe AI Adoption Gap Between Women and Men Needs a System Lens
The AI Adoption Gap Between Women and Men Needs a System Lens Generative AI is moving fast from novelty to infrastructure. Investment is accelerating. Boards are paying attention. AI capability is increasingly seen as central to future competitiveness. But the more important question is not simply: who has access to AI? It is: who is being enabled …
Read MoreA New Fault Line in Equality Law: What the US Supreme Court’s Decision Means for Women, Transgender Rights, and the Future of Australian Law
Transgender Discrimination Law in Transition The United States Supreme Court’s yesterday upheld laws in Idaho and West Virginia restricting girls’ and women’s school sport to athletes who are biologically female. The ruling focused on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 which prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that receive …
Read MoreKPMG’ Breach of Trust: The Asset That Cannot Be Replaced
The latest swathe of resignations of senior leaders at KPMG Australia ( Tuesday, 23 June), including its chairman following allegations concerning the misuse of confidential client information, represent far more than another corporate governance failure. They are the latest reminder of a lesson that organisations repeatedly seem destined to relearn: trust is both the most …
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