Laura Sabattini, Ph.D.
Catalyst Inc.

As a Director in the Research Department, Laura Sabattini brings to Catalyst extensive expertise in the area of work-life quality, organizational effectiveness, and gender-based stereotyping.  She leads research related to women’s leadership, talent management strategies, and barriers to women’s corporate advancement and is a member of the Work-Life Issue Specialty Team at Catalyst. Dr. Sabattini was formerly an adjunct faculty member at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she taught classes in social and organizational psychology and research methodology. She also conducted and published research investigating the challenges that women face in the workplace, the division of household labor between women and men, and the strategies women and men use to manage work and family commitments. In her doctoral dissertation, she examined how employed, single mothers from different socio-economic backgrounds utilize social networks as a way to manage work and parenting tasks.

Dr. Sabattini has consulted organizations and lectured nationally and internationally. She received her B.A. in Organizational and Work Psychology at the University of Padua, Italy, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.