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Lisa Brady

Director, Supply Chain Sustainability & Circular Economy

Operations – Supply Chain Transformation (SCT)

Lisa Brady is the Director of Supply Chain Sustainability and Circular Economy at Cisco. As part of Cisco’s supply chain operations, she is responsible for driving social, environmental and economic impact in Cisco’s global operations, particularly focused on human rights, and responsible sourcing and manufacturing.

Lisa also oversees the strategic leadership and cross-functional goals for a circular economy, accelerating the path to circular advantage for Cisco across the enterprise. This work includes product and packaging design for reuse and repair, using renewable and recyclable materials, reducing material use and waste in operations and creating technology solutions to enable customers on their journey to a circular economy.

Lisa holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA and MSW from Boston College. She is President of her local non-profit education foundation. On the weekends, she enjoys spending time with her family and raising a puppy to become a service dog for a non-profit assistance dog organization.

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November 15, 2019

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Seeing the Source: How Blockchain Can Improve Mineral Traceability

This post was written by Maria Gorsuch-Kennedy Senior Manager, Supply Chain Social and Environmental Responsibility at Cisco.  At Cisco, we believe that making the world a better place with our technology begins with how that technology is made. Like many companies in the electronics industry, our p…

August 1, 2019

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Cisco Achieves 2020 Supply Chain GHG Goal; Announces New Goals

This post was written by guest blogger Katie Schindall, Senior Manager, Circular Economy Program, Cisco. “With great power comes great responsibility.” The “power” referred to in this oft-cited quote is of course not the power we generate from energy, but it’s quite relevant to how we think about a…

July 29, 2019

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Cisco Announces Goals for Sustainable Packaging and Zero Waste

At Cisco, we are committed to accelerating the transition of our business to the circular economy. We aim for all of our resources to follow a circular model – where we reduce our consumption of natural resources and design waste out of our value cycle, enabling products and packaging to be us…

July 23, 2019

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What’s old is new: Why Cisco wants its products back

This post was written by guest blogger Abbey Burns, Circular Economy Program Manager at Cisco Cisco’s products power networks and shape the way we live, work, play, and learn. However, they also shape the world in many other ways. We extract natural resources to make and ship our hardware, and our…