Women in Tech

I didn’t start my career in marketing – or at Cisco.  I used to be a full-time civil litigator and a part-time adjunct lecturer.  By day, I picked apart multi-million-dollar insurance contract language.  By night, I picked apart graduate student essays (in all their handwritten glory). So, you coul…

How much do you #LoveWhereYouWork?  For me, I could share story upon story of why Cisco has my heart.  I am so immensely proud to see our children running around in Cisco t-shirts and love watching my daughter save book reports to her Cisco UBS drive.  There have been many moments that mattered to m…

The first time I heard Cisco’s Chief People Officer (CPO) Fran Katsoudas talk about a “conscious culture” I have to admit I already thought I was conscious of the culture around me. In retrospect, I think it’s easy to confuse a “conscious” culture with a “conscientious” culture.  I learned from form…

This post was written by Cisco Sales Intern Mabel Liang. Give anyone in Gen Z some time and a computer, and we can “Google” our way to being experts in anything.  That is exactly what I did prior to my interviews for my current role as a Global Strategy, Planning, and Operations summer intern at Cis…

Life is like a 4,000-piece jigsaw puzzle; always challenging, sometimes fun, other times frustrating, but always rewarding when the pieces just fall into place.  When I was a young girl, I used to love putting together puzzles – the more difficult, the better! In high school, I discovered technolog…

This post was written by Cisco Intern, Leigh Causey. From an early age, I have always loved expressing myself.  At my very first job in retail at the age of 15, I developed a love for vibrant hair colors.  Colorful hair lets me express who I am without using words: which is bright, colorful, and eve…

Aseel Othman passed her CCNA at age 12. She earned her CCNP at 15. And by 18 she became the youngest female CCIE in the world, passing the notoriously difficult exam on her first attempt.   After university she pursued her engineering dream, relocating from Jordan to Poland to become a Network Cons…

When you close your eyes and I say the word, “Cisco.” What comes to mind? For me, words like “boring” or “traditional” never come to mind. Cisco, for me, is a place where my opinion matters, where I can be myself, and where the people are at the heart of everything we do. As the Grand Prize Winner o…

I have come to learn that there are a multitude of life lessons college does not fully prepare you for, and while I had interned at Cisco the previous summer – I was still nervous about beginning my full-fledged career at a company that’s prominence in our global community is impressive, and thus in…