Women’s Leadership Development Impact Study: Massachusetts

A longitudinal survey, conducted annually, on women’s leadership in Massachusetts businesses

Research Objective

The goal of our Women’s Leadership Impact Study is to expose barriers and catalyze progress in women’s leadership, focusing on the development, retention and advancement of women in companies across the state. This study and subsequent roundtable sessions aim to identify best practices for a creating equitable business structures.

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This study and subsequent roundtable sessions aim to identify best practices and strategies for a creating equitable business structures.

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RESEARCH OBJECTIVE

The goal of our Women’s Leadership Impact Study is to expose barriers and catalyze progress in women’s leadership, focusing on the development, retention and advancement of women in companies across the state. This study and subsequent roundtable sessions aim to identify best practices for a creating equitable business structures.

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HYPOTHESIS

Many employers, profit and nonprofit alike, conduct leadership development programs with varying degrees of success, and limited external evidence that women are advancing into equal roles in leadership in the workforce.

We believe that a scorecard that sets a baseline of women’s presence at various levels of management and leadership and provides an inventory of practices to advance women can be the springboard to systematic, sustained progress for women into leadership.

WHY PARTICIPATE?

By sharing your data around women’s advancement, you help us establish a baseline, uncover gap areas, identify and scale best practices, and ultimately yield real progress across the state.

Make a statement to your employees, customers, investors, and public policy makers that the advancement of women in leadership matters to your organizational success.

Options for Engagement

STUDY PARTICIPANT
• Contribute organizational data as part of the data collection process
• Receive research report and private benchmark report card
• Invited to attend monthly practicum sessions

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
• Leader serves as an Ambassador
• Encourage participation across marketplace and networks
• Contribute financially to the initiative
• Co-host monthly practicum sessions
• Contribute insight and quotes for 2023 results report

PARTNER ORGANIZATION
Commitment to research participation, campaign to membership, clients and partners

SPONSOR ORGANIZATION
• Contribute financially to the initiative
• Encourage participation across marketplace and networks
• Contribute insight and quotes for 2023 results report