Speakers Bureau Topics
Catalyst speakers engage with audiences on provocative topics drawn from our groundbreaking research and real-life consulting assignments—topics concerning all facets of women's advancement in major organizations. Recent popular offerings include:
- The Bottom Line—The business case for advancing women. (Hint: women's participation equates with improved financial performance.)
- Damned if You Do; Doomed if You Don’t—“Invisible” gender stereotyping barriers that women in corporate leadership face.
- Men as Diversity Champions—Behind many a successful woman is...a man?
- Connections that Count—The importance of mentoring and building personal networks.
- Women of Color (WOC) in the Professions—Confronting the reality of being a double-outsider and the "intersectionality" of race and gender in the workplace.
- Women in Technology—Women search for respect from superiors and a voice in decision-making in a profession that has otherwise warmed to their talents.
For topics of interest to Canadiian audiences, please visit Catalyst Canada.
For topics of interest to European audiences, please visit Catalyst Europe.
New Presentation Available!
Companies have for years offered "flexibility" as an accommodation for the few, mostly women, aiming to balance work and family. The past few decades, however, have brought dramatic workplace changes, including downsizing, technology, and globilization, and organizations now need to go beyond flexibility to embrace a concept Catalyst calls "work-life effectiveness," or WLE. A tool for both companies and employees, it is examined in a new two-part study in the Making Change series. The first document, entitled Beyond Flexibility: Work-Life Effectiveness as a Tool for High Performance, lays out the parameters; the second, Beyond Flexibility: Creating Champions for Work-Life Effectiveness, details how companies can make the concept a reality. Catalyst speakers are available to further address how allowing for work and family becomes an opportunity for "us" rather than a favor for "me."