Getting real about inclusive leadership: Why change starts with you

While you may be confident in your ability to deliver on business goals, creating a cohesive team where everyone is excited to contribute and innovate can be more challenging. Building an inclusive team culture is key. Catalyst surveyed over 2,100 employees at large corporations — most of whom worked in one of eight countries across five continents — to look deeply at drivers of inclusion. Our findings show that a manager’s behavior has a direct link to an employee’s experience of inclusion — in fact, almost half of an employee’s experience of inclusion can be explained by managerial inclusive leadership behaviors.

And what are the manager behaviors that predict inclusion? We tested that, too — and we uncovered a model of inclusive leadership that balances both leading outward and leading inward.

How to cite: Dnika J. Travis, Emily Shaffer, and Jennifer Thorpe-Moscon, Getting real about inclusive leadership: Why change starts with you(Catalyst, 2019).