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Jennifer Boynton

Corporate Social Responsibility Content Strategist

Corporate Affairs

Jen Boynton is CSR Report Lead and Corporate Social Responsibility Content Strategist for Cisco. She also runs a B Targeted, a values-based marketing and communications firm. As the founding Editor in Chief of TriplePundit.com, she gained over a decade of experience developing CSR content and strategy. She lives in sunny San Diego with her husband and daughters.

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How Destination: Home works to make homelessness in Silicon Valley rare, brief and nonrecurring

The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. A place to call home Every night in America, more than half a million people go to sleep homeless. An even greater number are at risk of becoming homeless— just a missed paycheck or unexpected medical bill away from a night on the street. Sal and…

The Digital Readiness Index: transforming economies through technology

The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. Advances in data and technology have the potential to create a new kind of economic divide, one separating those with digital capabilities from those without. Cisco wants to help more countries and states get ahead. We’re doing so with our Countr…

Connecting the dots from skills to careers: Inside Cisco’s Networking Academy

The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. Access to opportunity can change lives and change communities. Cisco Networking Academy partners with educators, governments, and employers to bring global and inclusive access to digital skills to millions of people. Because the workforce of the…

How we take our culture to the next level with Conscious Culture

The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report.   A company’s culture can be its greatest asset. Unfortunately, you don’t have to look far to find companies where culture isn’t working. Places with problems like unethical behavior, discrimination, and harassment. And employees who are afr…

Tae Yoo, Cisco’s Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs on Cisco’s CSR Philosophy

The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report.   Tae Yoo leads Cisco’s social investments and stewards CSR and sustainability across the business. She directs Cisco’s business, technical, and financial assets to accelerate global problem solving to positively impact people, societ…

CSR At Cisco: A Message from CEO Chuck Robbins

The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. For the last 35 years, Cisco has defined innovation, reimagined connections, and pushed the limits of what’s possible. We helped build the Internet, and the Internet changed everything. Now anything and anyone can be connected, creating infinite…

Staying Hopeful and Supporting Education for All

This guest post comes from Jemy Kannan, a consultant in Cisco’s People & Communities team, partnering closely with business leaders across the APJC region. She is a certified coach and enjoys facilitating Power of Teams, Leader Learning Labs and Design Thinking sprints. Jemy has lived and…

How Women-Rock IT Empowers Women to Pursue STEM

This guest post was written by Emma Reid, global marketing manager, Cisco Networking Academy Corporate Affairs, Asia Pacific & Japan at Cisco and recent winner of the ARN Women in IT Awards. In 2014, experts across Asia Pacific recognized a troubling trend — a growing number of female students…

15 Years of Sustainability Reporting

This holiday season, Cisco has a lot to be grateful for: 35 years of business growth and, today, the launch of our 15th corporate social responsibility (CSR) report. This was my first time shepherding the process of producing a CSR report for a company the size of Cisco, and it was a doozy: we conne…