Research and Tools
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Team Dynamics on the Front Line: How Managers and Organizations Impact This Overlooked Key to Retention
Businesses are losing billions of dollars by overlooking frontline employees. Improving team dynamics can help.
3 Ways Frontline Managers Can Improve Workplace Culture
This mini-guide is essential for anyone looking to elevate their frontline team's performance and drive sustainable growth.
Effective DEI Messaging: Understanding Employee Perspectives (Infographic)
Learn what employees want companies to emphasize when talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
How to Talk About Diversity With Employees to Achieve Your Company’s Objectives
Catalyst offers research-based messaging guidance for senior leaders talking about DEI.
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Webinar Recording: Driving the Catalyst Effect: Women Leaders Cultivating Workplace Equity
In celebration of the 2024 International Women’s Day, watch an inspiring webinar highlighting women who are trailblazers in driving positive transformation in their workplaces and beyond.
Flip the Script: Transgender in the Workplace
This infographic guides people on words and actions that can create a culture inclusive of transgender employees.
Webinar Recording: Black Women and The Glass Cliff
Learn about the glass cliff and why organizations may offer high-level positions to Black women in times of turmoil.
Webinar Recording: How to Apply for the 2025 Catalyst Award
Watch this recording to learn insights from our Award Chair, Jennifer Thorpe-Moscon, about the rigorous and worthwhile process and details for submitting an application.
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STEM: Ask Catalyst Express
Data and credible resources on how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) organizations can attract, promote, recruit, and retain women.
Sponsorship and Mentoring: Ask Catalyst Express
Understand the difference between role models, coaches, mentors, and sponsors with data and resources on mentorship and sponsoring women in organizations.
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Ask Catalyst Express
Data and resources for building beneficial and effective Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for employees and their organizations.
Understanding Unconscious Bias: Ask Catalyst Express
Resources for employees to interrupt their own biases.
Research Series & Collections
Accelerating Inclusive Leadership
Catalyst's Accelerating Inclusive Leadership series of research dives into the elements of inclusive leadership at work.
Interrupting Sexism at Work
Explore conditions that encourage men to respond, or discourage them from doing so, when they witness sexism in the workplace.
Quick Takes
Catalyst research is the foundation of all our solutions for creating equitable workplaces. We examine today's work environments and employees' experiences in them.
Emotional Tax
Learn what Emotional Tax is and how it affects both employees of color and organizations in the US and Canada.
Trending Topics
Employee Resource Groups
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are voluntary, employee-led groups that foster a diverse, inclusive workplace.
Sponsorship & Mentoring
Sponsors are advocates who use their influence to help others advance, while mentors provide advice and coaching.
Flexible Work
Flexible work is a central tool to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Flexibility can increase retention and boost productivity.
Unconscious Bias
Unconscious bias creates barriers to inclusion, performance, engagement, and innovation. Learning how to mitigate its impact is essential.