CEO is trying to implement positive cultural changes but the same old happens underneath the surface. IT is surpassed by the rapid changes needed by the innovative product releases and directors don't know how to handle it. They react to put off the fires instead of planning for them, and when something goes wrong they blame middle management instead of the lack of strategy and resource planning.
In the last three years, the best ideas of projects to implement in IT have come from operations, corporate communications, or the CEO herself instead of an actual IT strategy. Misogyny is present in Infrastructure Services even though it's 2021 and the department is in a bigger mess each day as they continue firing the good assets for their gender or sexual preference, and continue promoting those that are friends of the CIO, go out drinking with the director and laugh at his misogynistic comments and do as they are told only. The rest of the company seems very inclusive. Not sure if it was a coincidence, but I tried to reach out to two HR partners, both seemed happy to help, and both put in their two weeks notice weeks later.