Laura Sabattini: Biography
Laura Sabattini, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Research
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Expertise | Biography
Laura Sabattini, Ph.D., has extensive expertise on issues of work-life effectiveness, organizational culture, and gender-based stereotyping. She leads and supports research projects related to women's leadership, talent management strategies, and barriers to women's corporate advancement, with a focus on global perspectives and variations. Dr. Sabattini has authored and co-authored several Catalyst reports and research tools including, among others, The Double-Bind Dilemma for Women in Leadership, Beyond Generational Differences: Bridging Gender and Generational Diversity at Work, and the Catalyst series on Unwritten Rules to Advancement. She is the co-leader of the Work-Life Issue Specialty Team at Catalyst, an internal group that builds knowledge and fields expertise requests on the topic.
Dr. Sabattini was formerly an adjunct faculty member at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she taught classes in social and organizational psychology and research methodology; she continues to teach as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. She received her B.A. in Organizational and Work Psychology from the University of Padua, Italy, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.