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.
Results
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. – Networking Initiatives for Multicultural Women (Practices)
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., is not new to promoting diversity. In 2007, the firm’s initiative, Securing Talent and Excellence in the Pipeline: The Senior Women’s Initiative, won the Catalyst […]
Deloitte LLP – The Women’s Initiative: Living the Lattice (Practices)
Deloitte LLP’s The Women’s Initiative: Living the Lattice builds on the success of the Task Force of the Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women. The mission of the […]
RBC – Client First Transformation: Achieving Business Results and Cultural Revitalization Through Diversity (Practices)
RBC’s initiative, Client First Transformation: Achieving Business Results and Cultural Revitalization Through Diversity, embeds diversity and inclusion (D&I) principles into its approach with employees, clients, and communities, contributing to a […]
Telstra Corporation Limited – Next Generation Gender Diversity: Accelerating Change for Women Leaders (Practices)
Telstra’s initiative, Next Generation Gender Diversity: Accelerating Change for Women Leaders, uses an integrated approach to increase women’s representation at senior and pipeline levels and engage men as change agents, […]
Campbell Soup Company – Winning in the Workplace, Winning in the Marketplace, Winning With Women (Practices)
Campbell Soup Company’s comprehensive initiative, Winning in the Workplace, Winning in the Marketplace, Winning With Women, has utilized employee engagement, knowledge sharing, and innovation to develop a culture of diversity […]
KPMG LLP – Achieving Results Through Mentoring (Practices)
Mentoring has existed at KPMG LLP for decades. Prior to 2004, however, the mentoring program focused primarily on assisting employees with the transition to partnership. In 2004, KPMG’s former Chairman, […]
Making Mentoring Work (Report)
Read this report to learn about leveraging or creating mentoring programs.
Making Mentoring Work: Business Case Framework (Tool)
This tool provides members with foundational research to link business to the benefits of formal mentoring.
Making Mentoring Work: Formal Mentoring ROI Spreadsheet (Tool)
The template allows companies to see in real terms how formal mentoring can pay off.
Ernst & Young LLP – Employee Advocacy Through Career Planning and Mentoring (Practices)
Ernst & Young recognizes the importance of diversity and inclusiveness as a critical strategic driver for their business. The firm’s Career Watch program helps high-potential women and visible minorities reach […]
Bingham McCutchen LLP – A Firm-Wide Culture of Mentoring (Practices)
Among other diversity efforts in place at Bingham McCutchen LLP, the firm values its mentoring programs as crucial support mechanisms for career development and advancement. The firm has two mentoring programs that […]
Making Mentoring Work: Sample Mentor and Mentee Career Development Action Plan (Tool)
This tool provides examples of the kinds of questions mentors and mentees should ask during important career discussions.
RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) – Diversity Dialogues (Practices)
RBC’s Diversity Dialogues is a reciprocal mentoring model that positions mentors and mentees as partners in learning about diversity. The program matches mid-level women and visible minority employees with senior […]
Making Mentoring Work: Sample Mentoring Scorecard (Tool)
This tool provides examples of programmatic and outcome metrics to isolate mentoring's effect on outcome scores.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP – Advancing Women in Law (Practices)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP formalized their affinity group, Women@Weil, in 2005 with the objective of being the “firm of choice” for women lawyers. Women@Weil is present in each of […]
Sodexo, Inc. – Using Return on Investment Results to Measure Executive Mentoring Success (Practices)
Sodexo, Inc., launched its North American mentoring initiative in 2005 based on strong empirical evidence regarding the importance—for both employee development and business success—of corporate mentoring programs and linking mentoring […]
2009 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors (Report)
This report details women's representation in corporate governance at the largest companies in the United States.
Methodology: 2009 Catalyst Census (Appendix)
This year Catalyst implemented a change in methodology to facilitate a focus on companies’ top leadership and simultaneously provide a more reliable comparison across companies and industries. Since 2006, the […]
KPMG LLP – Great Place to Build a Career (Practices)
KPMG has built a culture of career growth, mentoring, and accountability that focuses on recruiting, retaining, and developing talented people from a diverse pool of backgrounds and experiences.
CH2M HILL – Constructing Pathways for Women Through Inclusion (Practices)
In the traditionally male-dominated industry of engineering and construction, CH2M HILL provides a model for leveraging women employees to achieve business success.