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
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 […]
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.
Gibbons P.C. – The Women’s Initiative: Driving Success Through Diversity Investment (Practices)
Gibbons P.C. has contributed to, and continues to support, a workplace culture that is flexible, innovative, engaging, and inclusive.
PepsiCo, Inc. – Women of Color Multicultural Alliance (Practices)
PepsiCo is firmly committed to leveraging the diversity of perspectives that its talented associates bring to the company and to fostering a work environment that includes and encourages differing views […]
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. – Securing Talent and Excellence in the Pipeline: The Senior Women’s Initiative (Practices)
Goldman Sachs’ Securing Talent and Excellence in the Pipeline: The Senior Women’s Initiative is a global effort that aims to increase the number of senior women business leaders by supporting […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]