Practices
Catalyst’s Practices describe real organizational efforts from Supporter organizations that other Supporters can use as inspiration. They help Supporters learn how organizations, including those with Catalyst Award-winning initiatives, have tackled a variety of diversity, inclusion, and business challenges.
Results
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP – Strategies for Success: An Ongoing Commitment to Diversity (Practices)
The goal of Sidley’s overall diversity effort is three-fold: to increase the firm’s success in retaining women attorneys and attorneys of color; to promote a greater number of women associates and associates of color to partnership; and to promote a greater number of these partners to positions of power within the firm.
General Electric – Developing Women Leaders: Synergistic Forces Driving Change (Practices)
General Electric uniquely addresses the challenge of talent development by providing management women with the information, experience, and visibility needed to become leaders.
Shell Oil Company U.S. – Valuing and Leveraging Diversity to Become a Model of Inclusiveness (Practices)
Shell created an environment in which differences in background and perspective are respected, valued, and leveraged.
Harley-Davidson, Inc. – Optimizing Talent: A Culture of Empowerment (Practices)
Harley-Davidson’s effort focuses on development, visibility, and advancement opportunities for all employees.
Ernst & Young LLP – Promoting Change: Developing & Advancing Women (Practices)
Ernst & Young’s initiative, Promoting Change: Developing & Advancing Women, is a broad-based effort that combines an active career development process of targeted supports for women with a structured, technologically-supported […]
WellPoint Health Networks Inc. – Harnessing High Potential Talent: A Strategic Approach (Practices)
WellPoint has created and implemented the Human Resources Planning Program (HRP), a system that provides tools for employees, supervisors, human resources professionals, and senior leaders to plan, monitor, and evaluate […]
Accenture – Great Place to Work for Women (Practices)
Accenture developed and implemented the Great Place to Work for Women initiative in 1994 to create a culture in which women employees around the world can achieve their individual career […]
Fannie Mae – Embracing Diversity to Foster Long-Term Success (Practices)
Fannie Mae, the private, shareholder-owned company that provides financing for nearly one in five U.S. mortgages, has developed a broad-based approach to guarantee advancement opportunities for women and people of […]
Marriott International, Inc. – Women and Marriott: Partners for the Future (Practices)
The goal of Marriott International’s initiative, Women and Marriott: Partners for the Future, is to attract, advance, and retain talented women in a business that operates 24 hours a day, […]
Bayer Corporation – Bayer Women: Leaders for the Global Marketplace (Practices)
Bayer Corporation, the United States subsidiary of Bayer AG, has developed an overarching approach to diversity in the context of continuous improvement of the business operation. The goal of the […]
General Mills, Inc. – Women in Leadership: The Power to Build the Future (Practices)
General Mills’ initiative, Women in Leadership: The Power to Build the Future, centers on creating meaningful dialogue between diverse employees and senior leadership. The initiative is marked both by empowered […]
American Express Company – Building a Winning Culture: Accountability Counts (Practices)
Efforts to build a winning culture—one which diversity is a key component—are part of an evolution at American Express. The company’s initiative, Building a Winning Culture: Accountability Counts, has created […]
JPMorgan Chase & Co. – Using Diversity to Forge a New Culture: The Chase-Chemical Merger Experience (Practices)
Keeping diversity in the forefront during large organizational change is a challenge for companies. The Chase Manhattan Bank was able to integrate diversity as a common thread through its business […]
Charles Schwab & Co. – Building a Culture: No Ceilings, No Barriers, No Limits (Practices)
Since its start 25 years ago, Charles Schwab & Co. has been building an inclusive, open, and values-driven culture reflective of its founder’s vision for an equitable workforce. Schwab’s vision […]
IBM Corporation – Global Women Leaders’ Task Force: Creating the Climate to Win (Practices)
The Executive Women’s Diversity Task Force was one of eight task forces at IBM that began in July, 1995, with an ambitious mandate: to promote significant culture change in the […]
The Northern Trust Company – Sustained Leadership Commitment: Diversity at Work (Practices)
Senior management of The Northern Trust Company recognizes the role played by a diverse workforce in achieving unrivaled client service and superior financial and operating performance. Beginning in the late […]