Catherine Grosz is the Manager, Supplier Diversity at BMO Financial Group. Catherine was instrumental in extending BMO Financial Group’s leadership in fostering Diversity and Inclusion in its workforce to the company’s suppliers. As a passionate advocate for supplier diversity, she leveraged her personal experiences to educate stakeholders on the value of the supplier diversity program. This connected utilization of diverse suppliers to business leader success. Under her leadership, supplier diversity spend tripled, and the number of diverse suppliers utilized doubled.
Catherine is proud of the many connections BMO has made with diverse suppliers, enabling the suppliers to grow their businesses. She generously shares her knowledge and experience to educate other organizations on building a supplier diversity program. Catherine believes her team's leadership is important to making a difference in the communities in which BMO promotes its brand. She follows a philosophy that leadership is a partnership where her role is to listen, lead, and guide, growing partnerships with each individual she works with internally and externally.