TORONTO, Dec. 4, 2020 /CNW/ - Each year, the Women's
Executive Network (WXN) honours the top 100 Canadian women across
various industries for their accomplishments as agents of change
and their role in reshaping Canadian organizations. Yet again, RBC
is represented at the WXN Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100
Awards with Nazia Shahrin, Senior Director, Regulatory Strategy and
Delivery, Personal & Commercial Banking, being recognized in
the emerging leaders' category.
"The ongoing pandemic has knocked women's participation in the
labour force down from a historic high to its lowest level in over
30 years. We can't risk rolling back the important strides we've
made to eliminate barriers and increase representation of women in
leadership," said Dave McKay,
President and CEO, RBC. "Nazia and the emerging leaders recognized
on this year's list are helping to redefine inclusive leadership in
our offices, boardrooms and video calls. Let's work even harder to
support them by continuing to address the inequalities that stand
in the way of change and staying focused on creating more
opportunities for women in corporate leadership."
As a leader in Personal & Commercial Banking, Nazia delivers
strategic solutions to ensure all regulatory expectations are met.
She works with internal and external technology partners to find
innovative solutions using automation and Artificial Intelligence
(AI) to enhance in-house capabilities. In addition to her work with
RBC, Nazia recently joined the Faculty of Information at the
University of Toronto, where she
teaches two graduate courses in Digital Transformation and Data
Governance in the Masters of Information degree program.
RBC's D&I vision is to be among the most inclusive
companies, putting diversity into action to attract, retain and
enable the best talent and increase leadership diversity. We
challenge unconscious bias in our staffing, hiring and talent
review processes. We are committed to attracting and retaining
talented women, and enabling their advancement into leadership and
key client facing roles.
We strive to be a recognized leader in the advancement of women
through inclusive business, talent and community practices. For the
second consecutive year, RBC ranked no. 4 in the Top 100 Most
Diverse & Inclusive Companies in the 2020 Refinitiv Diversity
& Inclusion Index which ranks more than 9,000 publicly listed
companies, and also for the fourth year was named to the Bloomberg
Gender-Equality Index (GEI), an annual review that measures gender
equality across internal company statistics, employee policies,
external community support and engagement and gender-conscious
product offerings.
To learn more about the Diversity & Inclusion at RBC, visit
www.rbc.com/diversity-inclusion.
More information on WXN's 2020 Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top
100 Award winners can be found at
https://wxnetwork.com/page/top100awards.
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with
a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading
performance. Our success comes from the 86,000+ employees who
leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision,
values and strategy to life so we can help our clients
thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank, and one of the largest
in the world based on market capitalization, we have a diversified
business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional
experiences to our 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 34 other countries. Learn
more at rbc.com.
We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives
through donations, community investments and employee volunteer
activities. See how at rbc.com/community-social-impact.
SOURCE RBC Royal Bank