Sponsorship / Allyship Consulting Services

• Turnkey approaches to train leaders on how to sponsor vs. mentor
• Strategy coaching: how to set up an optimal sponsorship program
• Partners that provide technology platforms to enable mentoring/sponsorship programs
• Technology platforms to enable mentoring/sponsorship programs

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Catalyst:

Sponsorship programming run through Consulting Services.

Catalyst provides training sessions for Sponsors and Protégés grounded in our research on how Sponsorship accelerates gender equity at senior leadership levels. The sessions are designed to educate participants on the benefits of sponsorship, how sponsorship differs from mentoring and coaching, and key success factors to realize the benefits of the sponsor relationship.

Sponsorship consultation educates participants on the benefits of sponsorship, how sponsorship differs from mentoring and coaching, and key success factors to realize the benefits of the sponsor relationship.

Paradigm For Parity ®:

The Paradigm for Parity® coalition is committed to achieving a new norm in corporate leadership: one in which women and men of all races, cultures and backgrounds have equal power, status, and opportunity. Launched in 2016 with just 27 companies, the Paradigm for Parity coalition has tripled in size, and proudly has 129 CEOs from some of the world’s largest companies who have publicly committed to our solution.

The coalition created the Paradigm for Parity® 5-Point Action Plan for corporations to accelerate the pace of gender equity in senior executive roles. This unique agenda defines bold and specific actions that, taken together and simultaneously implemented as a package, drive culture change and advance women into leadership.

The Paradigm for Parity® coalition provides companies with a continuously evolving toolkit of resources and practice suggestions to help them achieve their diversity and inclusion goals.

Through its sponsored face-to-face and virtual interactions between companies throughout the year, the coalition has established a community among its committed company CHROs and D&I leaders. These interactions are focused on best practice and insight sharing to help companies address the gender imbalance within their own workplaces. Follow us on Twitter using @p4parity to learn more.

Shambaugh Leadership:

Together as Allies – Foster an Inclusive and Collaborative Work Culture -This session is designed to create more effective and inclusive leaders and teams, while reinforcing the importance of allyship. Shambaugh will share ways we can disrupt old narratives and break down barriers for creating two-way partnerships that co-create mutual value. We provide learning and development experiences and programs that define allyship and the WIFM for the individual and the organization, propriety assessment for determining your allyship readiness, key mindsets and behaviors for being an ally, and a Putting Allyship Into Action Framework.

Women Unlimited:

The Mentoring Experience – Each WOMEN Unlimited program has a mentoring component. While the focus is primarily about providing women a safe relationship in which to discuss their careers, both male and female mentors at WOMEN Unlimited programs report it has been a transformational learning experience for them as well.

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Catalyst:

Catalyst helps organizations develop a comprehensive sponsorship program that benefits both individuals and the organization at-large. We will guide you in designing a program to meet the unique needs of your organization, helping you develop:

• Program objectives
• Sponsor and protégée selection criteria and process
• Organizational alignment and sustainability
• Success metrics
• Communications

Catalyst will also facilitate your program kickoff, socializing and training sponsors and protégées on what they can and should do to maximize the benefits of the sponsor relationship.

Shambaugh Leadership:

Sponsorship Consulting Model and Training -Shambaugh provides a unique and results focused Sponsorship Model that incorporates an integrated approach to achieve targeted results for tapping on and advancing an organization’s diverse and top talent. Using the strength of existing talent management, succession planning, and SHAMBAUGH Leadership’s Sponsorship Consulting Model, SHAMBAUGH’s proven approach helps companies to be well positioned to foster an environment where sponsorship can be embraced, nurtured, and leveraged.

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Ellevate:

Participants in Ellevate Squads have access to a unique Squads Dashboard within the Ellevate platform. Participants connect with their fellow Squad members via Ellevate Conversations, our direct messaging platform. More than half of Squad participants report that their Squad provides them an opportunity to mentor and support other women.

Mentoring Meetups are Ellevate’s signature mentoring experience – connecting attendees with mentors for short, 1:1 conversations. Through each Mentoring Meetup, an attendee will have the opportunity to connect with 3-5 mentors, getting unique, objective, and diverse perspectives.

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Catalyst:

MARC (Men Advocating Real Change) workshops focus on engaging men in gender partnership and leadership learning programs and curriculum for men and women. Catalyst workshops on inclusive leadership and unconscious bias for executives, emerging leaders, line leaders, directors, and managers help provide clear understanding of what it means to be an inclusive leader and why it’s essential in today’s global marketplace.

DDI:

DDI’s Men as Allies session creates a more equitable and gender-diverse workplace extended to both men and women. It uniquely focuses on what allies can do to champion women and the behaviors they can adopt to enact change. This session is also offered as Leaders as Allies to include leaders of all genders. In addition, DDI offers Executives as Allies, which is geared toward the specific actions executives can take to create and measure gender diversity and inclusion in their leadership pool.

DDI’s Leaders as Allies session creates a more equitable and gender-diverse workplace extended to both men and women. This face-to-face or live virtual session empowers bosses and colleagues to be allies to women. It uniquely focuses on what allies can do to champion women and the behaviors they can adopt to enact change. This session is also offered as Men as Allies to focus on male-specific groups. In addition, DDI offers Executives as Allies , which is geared toward the specific actions executives can take to create and measure gender diversity and inclusion in their leadership pool.

Network of Executive Women:

NEW has recently launched the “Beyond Allies Program”. This workshop is a 5-month transformative process that helps develop male allyship through live cohort connections and a self-guided online program. Email connect@newonline.org for more information.

NEW offers two large-scale conference experiences that provide both inspiration and action to champion women. We have a senior level conference, called Executive Forum and a larger conference called Leadership Summit for all levels of men and women.

Shambaugh Leadership:

Shambaugh Leadership offers Allyship (for both men and women). It is a 2-part series (two ½ day sessions) focusing on what good allies do and the key behaviors and best practices for allyship. The sessions result in individuals putting allyship in play with other colleagues within or outside their organization. This is the key deliverable. The participants review scenarios that play out what good allies do. They engage in SMART goal plan to bring this intentional reality. And it is offered face-to-face and virtual.