Buki Mosaku

About

Buki Mosaku

Born in west London to Nigerian parents, Buki started his corporate career in media and advertising before moving into consultancy in the City of London. He then went on to found RosAcad, an international business and sales training consultancy and latterly DiverseCity Think Tank- Workplace Bias Navigation Experts and D&I consultants. In his work as a communication expert, consultant, and coach to tens of thousands of global clients’ staff over more than two decades, he became acutely aware of the impact of the multidirectional and multidimensional nature of unconscious workplace bias in stifling otherwise prosperous careers including his own at times.

Buki also became aware of popular, well-meaning yet unworkable so-called expert and academic theories to combat racial, disability, gender, sexual orientation bias etc, such as IAT- Implicit Association Tests, traditional microaggression training, ‘White Fragility,’ ‘Anti-racist Consulting’ and so on, that actually hinder the people they purport to help as well as reduce group wide productivity.  Buki himself has grappled with unconscious (and indeed conscious) bias with varying degrees of success in his employed career and as a consultant in the city.

Frustrated with his own challenges and the inadequacy of behavioural experts, authors, and consultants’ attempts to address workplace bias, he set out to develop a fair, equitable results-oriented methodology to tackle career-stifling bias and under representation of minorities in senior and high profile roles in the workplace. His new book “I Don’t Understand” –Navigating Unconscious Bias in the Workplace is the culmination of more than two decades of working, observing, and interacting with over 50,000 individuals throughout the world as a consultant, communications expert, trainer, and coach.

With disarming honesty, humour, enthusiasm, and a rare breed of clarity void of guilt or pain, Buki empowers and equips audiences of leaders and staff alike to effortlessly navigate what he describes as “the inevitability of workplace bias”.

Buki has cracked the code for calling out unconscious workplace bias to stop it in its tracks. The basic premise is simple: Traditional corporate training solutions tend to follow the counterproductive model of Guilty Perpetrator v Hapless Victim. Buki will explain why this approach is unproductive and counter intuitive. Even better, he will present a more effective model to navigating ALL workplace bias and show audiences What to Do, How to Think, What to Say, When to Say it and the Way to Say it, so that you can put career-stifling and conflict generating workplace bias behind you, your colleagues and team once and for all. As a leading business consultant and  Bias Navigation Expert, Buki’s has worked with global industry giants including: JP Morgan, Shell, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Roche, AON, RSA, Worley, Salesforce, BNY Mellon, SKY TV and many more. He regularly appears in the national press and is a sought after guest on national TV and radio for his views on EDI and related matters.

I Don’t Understand: Navigating Unconscious Bias in the Workplace by Buki Mosaku.