Flexibility

As a borderline perfectionist, I took pride in going to the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and landing my first job in recruiting before the end of my senior year of college. I decided to stay on that track and have spent the bulk of my career at a company I’m also very proud of—Cisco. I…

A Polar Vortex, canceled school, and a sick babysitter walk into my life. What’s a working mom to do? Well for THIS working mom who’s a Cisco Partner AccountManager in Wisconsin – I was able to grab an extra cup of coffee (okay, ALL THE COFFEE), set up a movie theater for my kids (complete with popc…

I always saw myself as the climb-to-the-top office type.  But, after I graduated college, there were no ‘remote’ opportunities or flexibility in the workplace by any means. So I dove in – all in – to the corporate life, and I became a self-proclaimed workaholic. Years later, in a leadership role at…

I decided to come back to Cisco! Why? Well, why NOT is a better question if you ask me! In 2015, I joined Cisco for the first time as a Sales Intern.  Of course, at this point in life I had no idea what to expect – I don’t even recall knowing what Cisco did. I’m sure I had heard of them before as I…

Starting a family isn’t always an easy path. My journey to becoming a mom was a bit more of a bumpy road. Just before I became a part of Cisco, just before the company I worked for was acquired and folded into the Cisco family, I started fertility treatments (IVF.) I had a beautiful daughter, but it…

You know what’s great? Finding new things I love about my job at Cisco, even two years into being a field SE on the Global Service Provider team. Most of my career prior was built using Cisco technologies, but it never dawned on me during my many visits to the Cisco campuses that I could be working…

“Don’t you get lonely?” In nine years as a Cisco business outcome strategist (I’ve had the pleasure of many different and exciting positions) – this is the question I get asked the most. And I suppose that makes sense since I – like many of my co-workers – use Cisco’s technology to work remotely. I…

Thriving in a digital world requires agility. To bring this concept to life, members of my team created the Digital Business Agility (DBA) framework below. As you can see, becoming digitally agile requires hyperawareness, informed decision making, and fast execution. In parallel, you must reimagine…

I don’t think that anyone can deny that being in the IT industry at this time is exciting and interesting. It’s also exhausting. There is a ton of hyperbole floating about on Twitter and the Blogosphere concerning the need for network engineers to become programmers, and that ‘whatever’ technology d…