Career Advancement
From the transparency needed to close the gender pay gap to securing mentors and sponsors, career advancement is hardly the predictable, linear process it used to be. Learn more about these topics and how gender representation in the C-suite and on boards can support positive culture change across your organization.
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Building Trust Between Managers & Diverse Women Direct Reports: Recommendations for HR, Managers, and Individuals (Tool)
This tool can help you leverage diverse working relationships within your organization.
Building Trust Between Managers and Diverse Women Direct Reports (Report)
Trust between managers and direct reports is essential to forming productive workplace relationships.
Kaiser Permanente – Achieving Our Mission and Growing the Business Through the National Diversity Agenda (Practices)
Kaiser Permanente’s initiative, Achieving Our Mission and Growing the Business Through the National Diversity Agenda, makes diversity and inclusion central to the organization’s competitive advantage and its ability to deliver […]
McDonald’s Corporation – Freedom Within a Framework: Global Women’s Initiative (Practices)
At McDonald’s Corporation, a strong commitment to inclusion is embedded in the business plan and corporate values. This perspective led the company to build on its successful and longstanding diversity […]
Unwritten Rules
2008 – 2011 Advancing in business is often as much about learning and playing by the rules as it is about talent and results. Some rules are explicitly stated in […]
Unwritten Rules: Why Doing a Good Job Might Not Be Enough Europe (Appendix)
This is the appendix to Unwritten Rules: Why Doing a Good Job Might Not Be Enough Europe.
Unwritten Rules: Why Doing a Good Job Might Not Be Enough Europe (Report)
This report examines Europeans' perceptions of unwritten rules as well as how they learned to navigate these rules.
User’s Guide: Approaches to Learning the Unwritten Rules (Tool)
This guide details approaches to learning unwritten rules.
2010 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors (Report)
The 2010 Catalyst Census examines women's representation in corporate governance at the largest companies in the United States.
Methodology: 2010 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 (Appendix)
The 2010 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Executive Officers and Top Earners and 2010 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors examine women’s representation in corporate governance at the largest companies in the United States. This annual report […]
Mentoring: Necessary But Insufficient for Advancement (Report)
This report examines the impact of mentoring on the career advancement of high potentials.
Credit Suisse – Reverse Mentoring: Engaging Generational Difference (Practices)
Credit Suisse’s Reverse Mentoring: Engaging Generational Difference pairs senior leaders with junior employees to educate senior employees about diversity, provide visibility to the junior employees, and improve cross-generational and cross-level […]
AB Volvo – Walk the Talk (Practices)
Implemented in 1998, Walk the Talk seeks to promote greater awareness and understanding of gender and leadership issues and their impact on Volvo’s business development, managers, and the organization as […]
PepsiCo, Inc. – People Processes (Practices)
PepsiCo has established very robust People Processes that integrate multiple HR initiatives including performance management, talent development, and career development. Differentiating factors include: a partnership growth model in which employees, […]
Humana, Inc. – Building High Potential Talent With the Women in Leadership Program (Practices)
Humana, Inc., began its executive coaching program, Women in Leadership, in 2006. Participants were selected based on potential to advance within the company. During the sessions, executive coaches equipped them […]
Methodology: 2009 Catalyst Census: Financial Post 500 (Appendix)
Catalyst uses a rigorous verification process to authenticate data gathered from public sources, allowing us to compare data over time and across industries and geographies. In early summer of 2009, […]
2009 Catalyst Census: Financial Post 500 Women Board Directors (Report)
This report examines women's representation on corporate boards at the most profitable companies in Canada.
Unwritten Rules: Why Doing a Good Job Might Not Be Enough (Report)
In this report, women and men from many industries and roles described behaviors and skills helpful with promotional opportunities.
Booz & Company – Middle East Women’s Leadership Initiative (Practices)
In 2005, the founder of Booz & Company’s Middle East Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI)—the most senior woman in the region—began engaging the office’s women in a networking forum. This effort […]
Pipeline’s Broken Promise (Report)
This report examines the conventional wisdom of the past two decades in regards to women in the pipeline.