Catalyst Award Winner
Catalyst is honored to be associated with organizations whose innovative and pioneering initiatives have proven so powerful in making change.
Results
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP – UPE Unique People Experience (Practices)
At PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Unique People Experience (UPE) was created to reduce turnover, maximize the productivity of the firm’s staff, and increase the value for PwC’s clients. The initiative is a […]
Scotiabank – Unlocking Potential, Delivering Results: The Advancement of Women (AoW) Initiative (Practices)
Scotiabank’s Unlocking Potential, Delivering Results: The Advancement of Women (AoW) Initiative is a far-reaching, business-driven initiative focused on seven strategic pursuits providing a global framework designed to attract, retain, and […]
BP p.l.c. – Global Path to Diversity and Inclusion (Practices)
BP formally launched its current diversity initiative in 2000 by creating a Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) function that is run by Group Vice President of Executive Development and D&I.
The Chubb Corporation – Reach Up, Reach Out, and Reach Down (Practices)
Chubb's efforts prepare high-potential women and people of color for leadership positions, while charging them with coaching and mentoring their colleagues.
Safeway Inc. – Championing Change for Women: An Integrated Strategy (Practices)
Safeway seeks to promote management talent from within, drawing from all levels, including entry-level store employees, to fill its leadership ranks.
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP – Strategies for Success: An Ongoing Commitment to Diversity (Practices)
The goal of Sidley’s overall diversity effort is three-fold: to increase the firm’s success in retaining women attorneys and attorneys of color; to promote a greater number of women associates and associates of color to partnership; and to promote a greater number of these partners to positions of power within the firm.
Georgia-Pacific Corporation – Bridging Cultures, Leveraging Differences (Practices)
This initiative is premised on a strong diversity business case generated by the diversity-of-thought concept, which maintains that different types of thinking stem from different dimensions of diversity.
General Electric – Developing Women Leaders: Synergistic Forces Driving Change (Practices)
General Electric uniquely addresses the challenge of talent development by providing management women with the information, experience, and visibility needed to become leaders.
Shell Oil Company U.S. – Valuing and Leveraging Diversity to Become a Model of Inclusiveness (Practices)
Shell created an environment in which differences in background and perspective are respected, valued, and leveraged.
Harley-Davidson, Inc. – Optimizing Talent: A Culture of Empowerment (Practices)
Harley-Davidson’s effort focuses on development, visibility, and advancement opportunities for all employees.
Accenture – Great Place to Work for Women (Practices)
Accenture developed and implemented the Great Place to Work for Women initiative in 1994 to create a culture in which women employees around the world can achieve their individual career […]
WellPoint Health Networks Inc. – Harnessing High Potential Talent: A Strategic Approach (Practices)
WellPoint has created and implemented the Human Resources Planning Program (HRP), a system that provides tools for employees, supervisors, human resources professionals, and senior leaders to plan, monitor, and evaluate […]
Ernst & Young LLP – Promoting Change: Developing & Advancing Women (Practices)
Ernst & Young’s initiative, Promoting Change: Developing & Advancing Women, is a broad-based effort that combines an active career development process of targeted supports for women with a structured, technologically-supported […]
Bayer Corporation – Bayer Women: Leaders for the Global Marketplace (Practices)
Bayer Corporation, the United States subsidiary of Bayer AG, has developed an overarching approach to diversity in the context of continuous improvement of the business operation. The goal of the […]
Marriott International, Inc. – Women and Marriott: Partners for the Future (Practices)
The goal of Marriott International’s initiative, Women and Marriott: Partners for the Future, is to attract, advance, and retain talented women in a business that operates 24 hours a day, […]
Fannie Mae – Embracing Diversity to Foster Long-Term Success (Practices)
Fannie Mae, the private, shareholder-owned company that provides financing for nearly one in five U.S. mortgages, has developed a broad-based approach to guarantee advancement opportunities for women and people of […]
General Mills, Inc. – Women in Leadership: The Power to Build the Future (Practices)
General Mills’ initiative, Women in Leadership: The Power to Build the Future, centers on creating meaningful dialogue between diverse employees and senior leadership. The initiative is marked both by empowered […]
JPMorgan Chase & Co. – Using Diversity to Forge a New Culture: The Chase-Chemical Merger Experience (Practices)
Keeping diversity in the forefront during large organizational change is a challenge for companies. The Chase Manhattan Bank was able to integrate diversity as a common thread through its business […]
American Express Company – Building a Winning Culture: Accountability Counts (Practices)
Efforts to build a winning culture—one which diversity is a key component—are part of an evolution at American Express. The company’s initiative, Building a Winning Culture: Accountability Counts, has created […]
IBM Corporation – Global Women Leaders’ Task Force: Creating the Climate to Win (Practices)
The Executive Women’s Diversity Task Force was one of eight task forces at IBM that began in July, 1995, with an ambitious mandate: to promote significant culture change in the […]