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- Charmaine Tial
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harmaine Tial is a director of consulting and deals at Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) Canada. She travels extensively across North America and Africa consulting clients on project management and implementation of the Oracle solution.
When she joined the company nearly 15 years ago she stood out among a predominantly Caucasian middle-aged male population. Racial diversity wasn’t necessarily a priority of the recruitment strategy and it became obvious to her that the few people of colour in the organization “didn’t have relationships as colleagues or talk much to each other”. A quiet mover and shaker, she determined to stir the culture and became a founding member of the Black Professionals Circle. “Nothing like it existed in any PwC in the 57 countries where we operated,” she had observed. Standing strong against pushbacks on the name, Charmaine won the management over by underscoring growing trends in corporate culture towards inclusion and multiculturalism and the impact that could have on winning work. Her mantra was to encourage diversity and inclusion in PwC’s talent pool. 14 CIJ FALL 2018
