I spent more than twenty years as a senior HR leader. What I learned is this:Discrimination at senior levels rarely looks overt. It looks procedural. Over time, I watched HR shift from being a safeguard to becoming a translator — converting bias, fear, and power struggles into clean language and compliant processes. It often showed…
As a senior executive in financial services (not Citibank), I’ve watched time and time again as high-performing, driven women have been pushed out of the organization. I fell for the company line about early retirements and decisions to pursue other interests, but now I know these women were targeted. My own story is this: decades…
In 2024, while working as an MD at Citi, I was subjected to the most biased, frankly shocking, HR investigation of my 25 year career. What at first appeared to be a routine inquiry quickly turned into a hit job shaped less by facts and more by assumptions, insinuations, and gendered interpretation of behavior. The…