2017 Catalyst Awards Conference—International Women’s Day

Join this interactive conversation with two organizations that are making sustainable and impactful change as clients of Catalyst Consulting Services. We will hear from an organization that has renewed their focus on change as a result of their Catalyst engagement, as well as a company further along in the journey. The panel of Consultant-Client pairs will present their initial issues, discuss strategic solutions, and analyze subsequent and ongoing impact.

Moderator:

* Katherine Giscombe, PhD, Vice President and Women of Color Practitioner, Global Member Services, Catalyst

Facilitators:

* Deborah Campbell, Senior Director and Consultant, Global Member Services, Catalyst

* Brande Stellings, JD, Vice President, Corporate Board Services, Catalyst

Panelists:

* Jonathan Berger, Vice President, Human Relations, Bimbo Bakeries USA

* Ingrid Jacobs, Head of Corporate Diversity and Inclusion, Raytheon Company

Leveraging Catalyst’s position as the selected Charity Partner of International Women’s Day, Catalyst and UPS bring together the top mission-based organizations that have changed the lives of women and girls globally. The hall is designed to showcase organizations that have contributed to the multi-dimension journey of a woman’s life. Engage with over 30 like-minded organizations throughout the day, presenting an opportunity to learn, give back, and pay it forward as a true acknowledgement of International Women’s Day.

Deborah Gillis, President & CEO, Catalyst and Partnering Sponsor Representative: Teresa Finley, Chief Marketing and Business Services Officer, UPS and Chair, Catalyst Board of Advisors, and Activity by The Second City Works

Catalyst Award-winning initiatives are examples of the important role that intentional and inclusive leadership plays in ensuring the success of diversity and inclusion at an organization. Hear from leaders from the 2017 Catalyst Award winners on how they have redefined what diversity and inclusion programs can be.

Moderator:

* Laura Sabattini, PhD, Vice President, Research, and Chair, Catalyst Award Evaluation Committee

Panelists:

* Inge G. Thulin, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, 3M

* Marlene McGrath, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, 3M

* William Downe, Chief Executive Officer, BMO Financial Group

* Daniela O’Leary-Gill, Head of Communications, Giving, Government & Investor Relations, BMO Financial Group

* Blake Moret, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rockwell Automation

* Susan Schmitt, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Rockwell Automation

• 3M’s global initiative, I’m in. Accelerating Women’s Leadership, comprises a variety of talent management and leadership development components, including networking, mentoring, talent development, work-life and workplace flexibility programs and external community efforts. More than 70 countries have embraced inclusiveness across their organizations through the I’m in campaign. From 2011 to 2016, 3M’s global initiative has accelerated progress for women throughout the company and across the world. Globally, women’s representation at the director level increased from 18.2% to 23.0% and at the vice president and above levels from 16.7% to 24.2%. Women leaders have also made progress in traditionally underrepresented roles across regions, including an increase from 19.1% to 23.9% for technical and lab managers and from 11.4% to 17.4% for plant managers.
• Panelists:
• * Joaquin Delgado, Executive Vice President, Consumer Business Group
• * Rhonda Graves, Chief Diversity Officer, Human Resources* Felipe Lara, Human Resources Director, Industrial Business GroupBMO Financial Group’s initiative, Diversity and Inclusion Renewal for Sustainable Change, is a strategy to identify and remove barriers to advancing diversity and build an inclusive work environment across the organization. The initiative focuses on achieving equitable representation of women and men in senior leadership and building a robust pipeline of women to advance to senior leadership roles. The DIR initiative has helped BMO achieve important results. Between 2012 and 2016, the bank met its five-year goal of 40% women’s representation among senior leaders in the United States and Canada, with women in these roles increasing from 33.0% to 40.1% and women of color and visible minority women increasing from 4.4% to 6.5%. Within the same time frame, women’s representation has increased from 7.7% to 31.3% among executive committee members and from 32.2% to 35.2% among senior managers and managers overall. Finally, women’s representation on BMO’s Enterprise Board of Directors has increased from 30.8% to 36.4%.
• Panelists:
• * Kona Goulet, Director, Inclusion, People Strategies and Insights, Human Resources
• * Francois Hudon, Head, North American Customer Contact Centres, Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking
• * Sonya Kunkel, Chief Inclusion Officer and Vice President, People Strategies and Insight, Human Resources
• Rockwell Automation’s The Culture of Inclusion Journey is a culture-change initiative that comprises programs and strategies executed throughout the company’s businesses and functions. In the United States, the initiative has impacted more than 8,000 employees in 100 locations. Results demonstrate that this contributed to advancing women across businesses and functions at the company. Between 2008 and 2016, women’s representation in the United States has increased from 11.9% to 23.5% among vice presidents, from 14.7% to 23.2% among directors, and from 19.3% to 24.3% at the middle-manager level. At the most senior leadership levels, women’s representation doubled, increasing from 11.1% to 25.0% among the CEO’s direct reports and from 11.1% to 20.0% on the board of directors.
• Panelists:
• * Michele Matthai, Director, Culture of Inclusion* Rachel Heidenreich, Vice President, Quality and Continuous Improvement* Mike Hutchings, Vice President, North America Western Region