Women in Agile Podcast | Battling Unconscious Bias in Our Workplace and Products - Shibani Ahuja & Lina Abdelhussein

In this episode of the Women in Agile Podcast TD Bank executive leaders share how unconscious bias may be shaping your workplace and the products being built today. They tackle some hard truths as to how unconscious bias shows up in all different spaces in our lives while we take our experiences with unconscious bias and use them as fuel to make a better workspace for others.

About the Featured Guests

Lina Abdelhussein is a VP and executive product owner for TD Bank Group, Lina’s focus is driving better outcomes for her clients, while supporting her colleagues in achieving their goals. As a woman, and visible minority in the financial industry, supporting her colleagues and clients has been anchored in diversity and inclusion and she set up a diversity network, later becoming the executive sponsor of TD’s Visible Minority Group.

Lina holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Western Ontario, a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from Carleton University, and an MBA from McGill Executive Institute.

Shibani Ahuja is a global executive with extensive experience working across multiple disciplines and geographies, holding several roles around the globe.

In her current role as Vice President, Executive Product Owner, she leads a team of technology professionals responsible for setting the strategic vision and agile implementation of innovative capabilities supporting end to end Customer shopping engagement journeys across the enterprise. 

In 2022 and 2023, Shibani received international recognition as one of the top Outstanding LGBT+ Emerging leaders globally.