Research and Tools
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Be Inclusive Every Day (Infographic)
Start being more inclusive with these easy, practical, intentional actions.
Team Dynamics on the Front Line: How Managers and Organizations Impact This Overlooked Key to Retention
Businesses are losing billions of dollars by overlooking frontline employees. Improving team dynamics can help.
3 Ways Frontline Managers Can Improve Workplace Culture
This mini-guide is essential for anyone looking to elevate their frontline team's performance and drive sustainable growth.
Effective DEI Messaging: Understanding Employee Perspectives (Infographic)
Learn what employees want companies to emphasize when talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Here’s What Successful DEI Looks Like: Essity’s Courageous Conversations Initiative (Practices)
By cultivating facilitators from within their organization, Essity has been able to have courageous conversations around many dimensions of diversity.
Virtual Roundtable Recording: Women’s Health in the Workplace: Menopause
Watch this roundtable to learn about the role of organizations in supporting those going through menopause.
Video: Beyond Allyship, Stories of Impact from MARC Alumni
Catalyst's Julie Nugent with Karl Preissner of P&G and Gavin Kimmel of Chevron at the Catalyst Awards.
Flip the Script: Gender Stereotypes in the Workplace-Men
Stop using common words and phrases that undermine men's ability to bring their whole authentic selves to work.
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STEM: Ask Catalyst Express
Data and credible resources on how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) organizations can attract, promote, recruit, and retain women.
Sponsorship and Mentoring: Ask Catalyst Express
Understand the difference between role models, coaches, mentors, and sponsors with data and resources on mentorship and sponsoring women in organizations.
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Ask Catalyst Express
Data and resources for building beneficial and effective Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for employees and their organizations.
Understanding Unconscious Bias: Ask Catalyst Express
Resources for employees to interrupt their own biases.
Research Series & Collections
Accelerating Inclusive Leadership
Catalyst's Accelerating Inclusive Leadership series of research dives into the elements of inclusive leadership at work.
Interrupting Sexism at Work
Explore conditions that encourage men to respond, or discourage them from doing so, when they witness sexism in the workplace.
Quick Takes
Catalyst research is the foundation of all our solutions for creating equitable workplaces. We examine today's work environments and employees' experiences in them.
Emotional Tax
Learn what Emotional Tax is and how it affects both employees of color and organizations in the US and Canada.
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Employee Resource Groups
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are voluntary, employee-led groups that foster a diverse, inclusive workplace.
Sponsorship & Mentoring
Sponsors are advocates who use their influence to help others advance, while mentors provide advice and coaching.
Flexible Work
Flexible work is a central tool to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Flexibility can increase retention and boost productivity.
Unconscious Bias
Unconscious bias creates barriers to inclusion, performance, engagement, and innovation. Learning how to mitigate its impact is essential.