TORONTO - When Jaqui Parchment was climbing Canada s corporate ladder, she noticed office cliques formed around members of the same hockey team and frequently overheard senior consultants chattering about their next round of golf with important clients.
Jaqui Parchment, the CEO of Mercer Canada, poses for a photograph in Toronto on Monday, July 13, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
TORONTO - When Jaqui Parchment was climbing Canada s corporate ladder, she noticed office cliques formed around members of the same hockey team and frequently overheard senior consultants chattering about their next round of golf with important clients. It just felt so foreign to me, said Parchment, who emigrated from Jamaica at the age of 14 and has since become the chief executive at consulting company Mercer Canada.
When Jaqui Parchment was climbing Canada’s corporate ladder, she noticed office cliques formed around members of the same hockey team and frequently overheard senior consultants chattering about their next round of golf with important clients.
“It just felt so foreign to me,” said Parchment, who emigrated from Jamaica at the age of 14 and has since become the chief executive at consulting company Mercer Canada. “I’m sure to most people it would not have felt that way, but there were 100 little things ? which combined to say to me, ‘Wow, you’re really different.’ “It didn’t feel great.”
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