Sponsorship and Mentoring
Sponsors are advocates in positions of authority who use their influence intentionally to help others advance, while mentors provide advice, feedback, and coaching. Both are important to advancement as employees navigate the workplace and earn opportunities for growth.
Results
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]