Jeff explores how to address unconscious bias, microaggressions, and exclusionary behavior in the workplace – specifically using virtual reality. Jeff’s guest Myra LalDin, believes in the power of stories to create empathy, shape values, change behaviors, and share experiences. Myra studied cross-cultural business management, and later, cognitive science and behavioral theory in grad school at Harvard University.

Myra is the co-founder of VECTRE, a virtual reality development company that leverages the power of immersive technology and works with Fortune 500 companies. She also founded VRperspectives, which focuses on using VR storytelling to shine a light on the hidden dynamics of the social world through immersive experiences. Myra serves on the boards of Designed by Us (Amazon nonprofit), the National Small Business Association Leadership Council, and as an XR subject matter expert at MIT. Myra shares what the true costs are to leaders that don’t have inclusive cultures. She shares what an inclusive leader is and what their impact is on engagement, motivation, and turnover.

Myra and Jeff discuss how virtual reality can help employees gain empathy and compassion through immersive and experiential technology. She discusses how to change culture by entering the environment in the shoes of one who has experienced negative microaggressions or exclusionary behavior in the workplace.