TED Talk Tuesday: Vernā Myers - "How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them" (November 2014) Vernā Myers is a diversity consultant and self-described "recovering lawyer" with a degree from Harvard Law. She leads the Vernā Myers Consulting Group, an organization that has helped break down barriers of race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation in thousand-member workplaces. She is also the author of "Moving Diversity Forward: How to Go from Well-Meaning to Well-Doing." Myers encourage