She reminds me of someone who is used to talking to kids all day long. Her tone, voice and general demeanor is like a burnt out kinder school teacher. Condescending as the day is long. The attitude of inside joking is boring at best. There is no camaraderie with the EC. They’re all sharks waiting for blood in the water to eat the weak.
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Get a grip, people aren’t being “cut left and right”.
And her career track has nothing to do with yours. Perhaps you should try to get into the mentor program, but you would need to check your attitude at the door.
Running AS over being CFO isn't a consolation prize - running a business (owning a P&L) is generally a higher paying job within corporate C-suites and gives you the ability to run something that generates revenue for the firm. At BNY, AS is the largest business by a large margin so it's arguably the most important "business" role at the company. I would bet she's making double now what she was as CFO. CFO is a support position that does important work but it's a long way from running a business, so I'd bet she's very happy with the change and sees it as a promotion. My view is that going from head of AS RMs/sales to CFO was a stepping stone role to get more enterprise-wide exposure and get used to what working on the EC is like, and moving back into the business as the lead was a natural progression she had in mind the whole time.
Is anyone else tired of her ridiculous weekly emails? Completely tone deaf as she writes about her global travels (at our expense) all the while folks are being fired/laid off left and right.
@kaz, "attempting her best efforts"???
There are a lot of Emilys!
You aren’t weak! Get out and stop sitting on your a-s waiting for the ax to fall. You don’t need to live in constant fear and dread of being laid off. There are so many good jobs out there!
Wasn’t her first real achievement becoming a D.E.I. C.F.O. with no Finance, Economics or Accounting knowledge?
Simply put: Unqualified DEI Token - I'm NOT impressed at all with her!
She’s fake. In a meeting she pretty much said we had a lot of untalented people and they need to go
Prior to being CFO, she held a leadership role in the Asset Servicing Business. Todd was helping to groom her as the CFO with some good support from her Finance directs. The CEO and CFO in most organizations are strong partners. Even though Robin did not believe in her finance skills and needed someone stronger in that discipline, he saw her leadership potential and knew that he could offload others if he relied on her in Asset Servicing.
Was weird that she was the CFO and now is running Asset Servicing seems to be a consolidation prize for not being capable.
I met her once. She seemed very nice, but in that saccharine sweet kind of way.
I am not a fan of BNY - I believe their workforce is in an unhealthy state and I anticipate there is a serious mental health crisis with its employees.
That being said, I will give credit to this woman in attempting to get closer to her workforce through her leadership notes and in the ground meetings will employees at all levels. I believe she is attempting her best efforts to
be relatable. My view is that her problem is in her executing - she’s not bringing back to the workforce tangible successes that is authentically improving culture.