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CANADA’S BEST DIVERSITY EMPLOYERS (2025)
RBC has a comprehensive approach to inclusion
virtual care to personal leaves for
life’s challenges. RBC continues to
evolve its support and held its first
global employee event recognizing
World Menopause Day in late
2024 featuring leaders in women’s
health care.
RBC also provides support with
financial advice and business
resources for female clients and
entrepreneurs to help them
achieve their goals and create
growth opportunities. The bank
has provided more than $18 billion
in authorized credit since 2022.
There’s a deep
understanding
that people aren’t
static, that we have
to evolve along
with them.”
— Alex Noether
Vice President,
Global Inclusion
Jodi Wright, senior director, client strategy, at RBC.
J
odi Wright has stayed with
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
since she joined in 2008 for a
few simple reasons.
“I’ve been given lots of
opportunities and felt supported
at every step,” she says. “Every
job I’ve had then became my
favourite.”
Wright’s current favourite is
senior director, client strategy,
where she leads a team
responsible for developing
enterprise-wide strategic direction
for RBC’s youth and young adult
client segment.
Before that, she’d advanced
through seven positions in
differing RBC divisions. The
variety enabled Wright to grow
her skillset and knowledge.
In 2022, Wright was selected to
participate in a leadership program alongside colleagues from
various businesses across RBC’s
global locations who had also
been identified as likely to benefit
from the eight-month professional
development opportunity.
The program is true to RBC’s
long-standing commitment
to creating inclusive and fair
opportunities with a wide range
of programs that provide support
and resources not only at RBC, but
in both the broader workforce and
in communities, too.
“Inclusion is not just a word at
RBC,” Wright says. “It’s something
we lean into and live every day.”
Alex Noether says it’s that
deep-rooted, values-based culture
that inspired him to become RBC’s
vice president of global inclusion
in early 2024.
While there will always be more
to be done, he says, he’s impressed
with initiatives already in place.
“There’s a deep understanding
that people aren’t static, that we
have to evolve along with them,”
Noether says.
RBC provides a wide variety
of support to employees which
aims to support physical and
emotional well-being at all
life stages. Flexible employee
benefits include a suite of
offerings ranging from access to
mental health practitioners and
Noether sees greater impact
beyond business transactions.
“The impact of an inclusive
approach to lending goes beyond
individual clients,” says Noether.
“We know success inspires
more success. It’s important for
everyone to see many examples
of women being successful as
entrepreneurs. It inspires other
women and girls to pursue their
business dreams, and it certainly
inspires our RBC team, because
at the end of the day, our clients’
success is our success.”
In the community, RBC assists
a variety of women’s organizations. The RBC Foundation, for
