Investing in and growing our team
June 29, 2021
Investing in our CIBC Private Wealth talent is one of our top priorities. Learn more about the journeys of some of our colleagues through this video.
CIBC Private Wealth Management: Come Join Us!
[Soft music plays]
[Andrew McDonald, Portfolio Manager
CIBC Wood Gundy | CIBC Private Wealth]
Andrew McDonald: Coming into work is 90 percent fun and 10 percent work.
[A woman talks animatedly at a boardroom table. In an office hallway a group of people surround Victor Dodig, as he helps a child ring a bell.]
Debra Wooding: It's about the people, it's about the culture.
[Debra Wooding, Portfolio Manager, Investment Advisor
CIBC Wood Gundy | CIBC Private Wealth]
Debra Wooding: And I think it's a great place to work because we have the best of both.
[Jim Wilson, Investment Advisor, Portfolio Manager
CIBC Wood Gundy | CIBC Private Wealth]
Jim Wilson: I started CIBC in 1997.
[Joyce Slade, Client Service Manager
CIBC Private Wealth Management]
Joyce Slade: It's actually been 12 years.
[Floyd Harris, Investment Advisor
CIBC Wood Gundy | CIBC Private Wealth]
Floyd Harris: For just over 20 years now.
[The CIBC logo on the wall of the CIBC Wood Gundy Bay Street Branch lobby.]
[Teresa Raponi, Branch Manager
CIBC Wood Gundy | CIBC Private Wealth]
Teresa Raponi: I think CIBC Private Wealth is a great place to work, because it allows me to contribute to what I think is a very exciting business.
Floyd Harris: CIBC has been a great place to grow your career, just as I have, because the culture and the leadership is quite fantastic.
Joyce Slade: I feel that is really inclusive and supportive of my own career development.
[A woman sits at a desk and types on a keyboard looking at two monitors.]
Andrew McDonald: It has been an incredible journey, full of great relationships and opportunity.
[A woman walks into a downtown CIBC branch. The woman and an advisor shake hands.]
Jim Wilson: I always felt that I could be who I was. I felt like I had complete freedom to build a practice exactly the way that I wanted to.
[A low angle shot of a CIBC office tower.]
[CIBC welcomes DIVERSITY]
[A group of people talk at a boardroom table.]
[and welcomes DIFFERENT IDEAS]
Jonathan Haas: CIBC welcomes diversity. It welcomes different ideas, regardless of age, gender, background anything like that.
[CIBC is building a more diverse, inclusive gender-balanced culture.]
[A time-lapse image of the downtown Toronto skyline at night. A group of people talk at a boardroom table. Two women talk to each other at a board room table.]
Debra Wooding: I think we're building an even more diverse, inclusive, gender-balanced culture.
[A range of diverse women smile and look into the camera.]
Teresa Raponi: This is such an exciting time for women who aspire to have a career in Wealth Management.
Joyce Slade: I’m a woman, visible minority, and I've always felt very supported in everything that I do here.
[A series of images of diverse CIBC employees smiling at the camera.]
Joyce Slade: We've got a really diverse group of people who love their job, and who love supporting clients.
[Two men in suits walk down an office hallway. The CIBC flag waves outside an office tower. A group of CIBC employees in red Miracle Day T-shirts work at their desks, surrounded by red balloons. A man looks at four monitors showing market data. A man points with a pencil at a pie chart on a piece of paper.]
Floyd Harris: CIBC helps me by giving me the tools to be able to assist my client in whatever their endeavors are.
[CIBC has the bench strength]
[A large team meeting is held in a boardroom.]
[The depth of research]
[A man looks at market data on two monitors.]
[And the reach into CANDIAN HOUSEHOLDS]
[An aerial view of suburban houses.]
[At CIBC we put our CLIENTS FIRST]
[A woman and a man walk towards an office building.]
Andrew McDonald: And with the bench strength of CIBC, with the depth of research, with the reach into Canadian households, I think we are able to really put our clients first.
[CLIENTS don’t care about how much you know]
[Debra Wooding and two clients talk at a boardroom table.]
[Unless they know how much you care.]
[Debra Wooding puts flowers in a vase and puts the vase on a coffee table in a lobby.]
Debra Wooding: Clients don't care about how much you know unless they know how much you care.
[A large team meeting is held in a sunlit boardroom. A client signs a document and shakes an advisors hand. Two college age women sit on a bench a laugh. A young woman smiles and looks into the camera. A young man and woman stand in a room under construction and hold blueprints.]
Floyd Harris: Getting to know people personally when you can help them achieve their goals, or when their kids go off to university, or help their kids buy that first house.
[Competence plus caring is a potent combination]
[Debra Wooding and two clients talk at a boardroom table.]
Debra Wooding: Competence with caring, it's a potent combination.
[The CIBC logo on the wall of the CIBC Wood Gundy Bay Street Branch lobby.]
Floyd Harris: CIBC Private Wealth is a great place for young people wanting to embark on their career.
[A series of diverse young men and women smile and look directly at the camera in various locations.]
Jim Wilson: We need young blood and young ideas.
[CIBC is a future leader]
[A hyper-lapse image of a CIBC office tower at night. Birds fly off a large bridge at dusk.
[To reach a market that represents all CANADIANS]
[A time-lapse shot of Nathan Philips Square in winter.]
Andrew McDonald: CIBC's clearly making the effort to be a future leader. To reach a marketplace that is representative of all Canadians.
[To invest in our communities]
[A child puts a large puzzle piece against a wall at a CIBC Miracle Day event outside Commerce Court. A series of images of children in classrooms holding large puzzle pieces. Children in wheelchairs draw on the large puzzle pieces.]
Andrew McDonald: To invest in our communities. And I think with that passion in attracting even greater talent, I think we are going to be a force to be reckoned with.
[CIBC Private Wealth Management: Come Join Us!]
Jonathan Haas: Come join us at CIBC Private Wealth Management.
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