Every firm on Wall Street has its problem, but it’s an open secret at Citi that if you are a woman under HR investigation, the odds are not in your favor. Might as well start packing your bags.…
My experience as a Director at Citi was marked by ambiguity and marginalization. Over the course of my career, I achieved many accomplishments that the firm proudly highlighted in its literature as evidence of success. Yet, despite leading…
I was a top performing Director at Citi when I was called into an HR investigation related to an employee who was unhappy about being placed on a performance plan. At the start of the call, the questions…
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…
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…
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…