Horrible management and executive leadership despite fantastic colleagues and mission - Anonymous employee Ceres Employee Review

Chief People and Diversity Officer is retaliatory, vengeful, and disrespectful. She leads a bloated and ineffective HR team with 8 staff for a small org of ~150 people, yet the team fails to deliver on basic staff needs around education and equity. In a recent round of layoffs, no one from the HR team was laid off despite multiple staff with non-mission critical roles who have virtually empty calendars without meetings. There is no uptake in educational and DEI programming, yet programmatic staff were instead given the ax. Virtually all executive level staff and senior management are failing at their responsibilities to the board. They are very well paid despite being tired and ineffective at their jobs. Through their inertia and inability to consider new ideas and empower lower-level staff with creative thinking, they are driving the organization into the ground. They are failing to adopt new ideas, forcing high performing staff to resign for other organizations, laying off critical staff members, and ruining staff morale. Many, perhaps most, team program directors need to be laid off and replaced with younger staff who bring new ideas and energy. The CPDO, CFAO, CDO and CPO all need to be replaced with new blood to avoid the inertia and old school mentality that is expediting the collapse of an organization that is becoming ineffective and failing to advance its mission. The CEO is a lovely human, but it is far past time for her to resign and bring in someone with the stamina and ideas to take Ceres back on track.