Sarah Dinolfo
Senior Director, Advisory Services
Sarah Dinolfo holds more than 15 years of experience conducting organizational research and helping companies and firms identify strategic priorities, goals, and solutions that help them build more inclusive workplaces. Sarah’s in-depth areas of interest and expertise include: mentoring and sponsorship; employee resource groups; talent management; engaging men as inclusion champions; and qualitative data analyses. During her tenure at Catalyst, she has authored and co-authored several research publications and practical tools, including Anatomy of Change: How Inclusive Cultures Evolve; High Potentials in the Pipeline: Leaders Pay it Forward; Making Mentoring Work; and Sponsoring Women to Success.
Outside of Catalyst, Sarah worked as Assistant Director at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Archer Center for Student Leadership Development. In this role, she taught credited coursework on professional development and advised women’s STEM groups, including the cross-institute Women’s Mentoring Program. She also Directed the Professional Leadership Development program, which exposes high-performing student talent to real-time organizational lessons and speakers (e.g., GE, Regeneron, Deloitte, Johnson & Johnson, Corning, Vapotherm, IBM, and others).
Sarah received her MA in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and graduated with a BA in Psychology with a minor in Business from the State University of New York, Geneseo.
Sarah's Latest Work
Managing with a Sponsorship Mindset: Why Sponsorship Isn’t Enough
Mentoring is essential to leadership development—but mentorship alone is not enough to help women advance.
Anatomy of Change: How Inclusive Cultures Evolve (Report)
Candid, respectful communication (and lots of it) is the foundation for building a more inclusive workplace.
High Potentials in the Pipeline: Leaders Pay It Forward (Report)
This report reveals that high potentials who have received career development are now “paying it forward” and developing others.
Sponsoring Women to Success (Report)
Lately, organizations and the media have given sponsorship widespread attention, but questions abound.
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.
Making Mentoring Work (Report)
Read this report to learn about leveraging or creating mentoring programs.