When Attribution Serves to Legitimize Leadership Selection Over Merit My experience at Citi followed a pattern I’ve seen echoed in other stories here, particularly Stories 5, 84 and 91. I achieved accomplishments that were well documented and measurable—closing…
I am a 45 year old saleswomen who works in a European bank in London & has in the business a long time and pretty thick skinned. At my Christmas party last year I was talking to my…
An Open Plea to Investigative Journalists: Follow the Silence in Asian Private Banking If investigative journalism were to seriously deep dive into suppressed sexual harassment cases in Asian private banks, it would not be a single exposé. It…
Fortunately everyone on Wall Street knows that Citi is corrupt incompetent and always covering its tracks.
The Financial Times is reporting today that Citi’s former head of the family office previously served as Jeffrey Epstein’s personal banker – a detail one might reasonably expect any competent organisation to identify during the most elementary due-diligence…
I’m a woman in my late 20s working on the buyside, and not enough is said about the role women sometimes play in undermining their peers’ careers. A few years ago, two of my colleagues were competing for…
As a man my head hangs in shame when I read about these experiences of so many women across organisations, levels and geographies. What is it with us men that is forcing such behaviour? Do we achieve a…
I was young and impressionable; I was regularly offered the opportunity to be mentored by older and more experienced colleagues or peers in the industry, who would also tell me how attractive I was. Once at lunch, one…
I have shared a story—one of many I could share, and honestly, would love to. But here I am, exhausted. I want to leave my peers here with a quote I just stumbled across after a very long,…
Seeing these stories and then reading the atrocities in the Epstein files makes you wonder why it’s so impossible for the world to #BelieveWomen.