Catherine Mattice Profile

While serving as the Director of Human Resources for a nonprofit organization Catherine found herself working with a bully Fascinated by the fact that no one ever stood up to this person and that the Executive Director wouldn t dare address the bullying behavior Catherine decided to write a paper on toxic leadership for one of her grad school classes It was then that she discovered the phrase workplace bullying and that there were years of academic research on the topic Thrilled to learn she wasn t the only one experiencing this issue Catherine spent the rest of grad school focused on workplace bullying Her Master s Thesis was even on the topic and she dedicated her page paper to The Post-It Nazi which is what the office called the bully Since then Catherine has been working with organizations to assist them in building systemic action plans to end workplace bullying and replace it with a positive workplace culture Her firm Civility Partners has worked with such clients as Chevron Embraer Executive Jets the American Red Cross the U S Marine Corps Recruit Depot the Office of Civilian Human Resources at the U S Navy Kaiser Permanente O Connor Hospital Coachella Valley Mosquito Vector Control UC Irvine UC Riverside University of San Diego San Diego State Inland Regional Center and a variety of other universities hospitals government agencies non-profit organizations and private businesses in a variety of industries Catherine has presented her research and training programs both nationally and internationally She has made several appearances on news stations around the country including FOX NBC ABC and Al Jazeera and she has been cited in such media outlets as MSNBC Inc Magazine Entrepreneur Huffington Post and USA Today She is co-author of the book BACK OFF Your Kick-A Guide to Ending

HR, Workplace Civility, Employee Engagement