During my time there, I did not see one person of color in a marketing leadership role, specifically Director and above. I can assure you at the VP level; there are no marketing leaders of color. People of color, especially women of color, are not safe, nor do they have psychological safety within the marketing team. Do you think I am lying... Read some employee reviews here spewing hate on Glassdoor with awful comments like "wokeday" talking about liberal lefts are taking over Workday. It's disgusting! On my direct team, I was the only person of color and was eventually pushed out of my role. My former manager was aggressive and was only in the role for one month before attempting to put me on a "coaching plan." Every day I was e-mailed and told what I was doing wrong. I told HR I felt psychologically unsafe, and I felt extremely anxious. I was harassed every day about nonsense i.e. an extra space between two words or a comma splice. It's not a surprise my manager was based in a smaller region where 90% of the office staff was white. The only person of color in that office was a sales assistant. If HR is willing to look at themselves and pull in marketing leaders (senior directors and above), they would see 90% white professionals with blonde hair and blue-eyes. While there, I attended Workday's intentional sales kick-off, and marketing held a breakout session. There were only five black/brown marketers internationally out of the group of 300 that attended. Lastly, if you are a person of color in marketing, you are not getting promoted. You will be considered next to last for any type of leadership opportunity.
