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Catherine Mattice
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Catherine Mattice helps organizations replace toxic behavior with cultures of respect and performance. Founder of Civility Partners, she works with leaders on culture change, delivering results for Chevron, NASA, and the American Red Cross.
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Catherine Mattice is one of the most trusted authorities on turning toxic workplaces into cultures where people and performance thrive.
She founded Civility Partners in 2008 after experiencing a toxic workplace firsthand, and has since led culture change initiatives for more than 250 organizations, including Chevron, NASA, Stanford University, Embraer, and the American Red Cross. She is the author of Navigating A Toxic Workplace For Dummies, has created more than 50 LinkedIn Learning courses, and has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, USA Today, NPR, and CNN.
Catherine draws on years of hands on consulting and her own experience of a toxic workplace to show audiences why abrasive behavior takes hold inside an organization and what actually stops it. Her disruptive, humorous approach has guided CEOs of multinational companies, leaders across the US Marine Corps and Navy, and teams of every size toward more respectful, higher performing workplaces.
Audiences leave with concrete tools to identify abrasive leadership and workplace bullying before they take root, build core values that hold up under pressure, and put a culture of consistent, constructive feedback into daily practice.
Book Catherine to give your organization a clear, tested path from a toxic culture to one built on civility and strong performance.
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Abrasive leadership, workplace bullying, and discrimination erode morale, retention, and performance long before most organizations notice the damage. Catherine Mattice shows how well defined core values create the foundation for a culture built on respect, inclusion, and ethical behavior instead. She walks through how to write values that actually reflect daily work, embed them in performance systems, and use them to prevent toxic patterns from taking hold, giving leaders a practical framework for lasting culture change.
Some leaders overreact, control every detail, and humiliate the people around them, and organizations often tolerate it because these individuals drive results. Catherine Mattice unpacks why abrasive behavior persists, how it quietly costs companies through lowered morale, absenteeism, and retaliation risk, and what actually makes it stop. Drawing on a tried and tested coaching method, she gives leaders a specific way to move past denial and justification and hold bullying behavior to account, restoring a safer, more productive workplace.
Feedback has a reputation for being uncomfortable, and most organizations avoid building any real culture around it. Catherine Mattice reframes feedback as one of the strongest tools available for engagement and performance, showing how generational differences shape the way it lands and how it connects to an organization's core values and unique value proposition. She walks through practical ways to measure whether employees are getting enough feedback and to build habits that make giving and receiving it routine.
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Catherine Mattice draws on her own experience of a toxic workplace alongside years of hands-on consulting to frame each session, using that foundation to walk audiences through a tested coaching method with practical tools they can apply directly to performance systems and daily leadership habits.
Catherine Mattice draws on her own experience of a toxic workplace alongside years of hands-on consulting to frame each session, using that foundation to walk audiences through a tested coaching method with practical tools they can apply directly to performance systems and daily leadership habits.
Catherine Mattice draws on her own experience of a toxic workplace alongside years of hands-on consulting to frame each session, using that foundation to walk audiences through a tested coaching method with practical tools they can apply directly to performance systems and daily leadership habits.
Catherine Mattice's sessions address toxic workplace behaviour and abrasive leadership, core values as a foundation for culture change, and building feedback cultures across generational differences. She founded Civility Partners in 2008, has led culture change initiatives for more than 250 organisations including Chevron and NASA, and is the author of Navigating A Toxic Workplace For Dummies.
Catherine Mattice's sessions address toxic workplace behaviour and abrasive leadership, core values as a foundation for culture change, and building feedback cultures across generational differences. She founded Civility Partners in 2008, has led culture change initiatives for more than 250 organisations including Chevron and NASA, and is the author of Navigating A Toxic Workplace For Dummies.
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