The Empowering Companion Success weblog sequence highlights the African American Cisco Companion Neighborhood (AACPC), supporting channel companions, and people positively impacting associate variety and the communities they serve.
Celebrating Ladies’s Historical past Month lately impressed us to kick off the primary installment on this sequence by that includes three African American Cisco Companion Neighborhood (AACPC) members which might be women-led. Cisco dedicated $50 million to the AACPC to diversify our associate ecosystem as a part of its dedication to social justice.
Expertise Group Options, KeepWOL, and Turia Expertise are Cisco companions that present a variety of expertise options and companies—and every has a feminine founder/CEO on the helm.
Expertise Group Options: Full Service Consulting and Giving Again to Communities
Expertise Group Options—higher often called TGS—is a Cisco Integrator Companion. A full-service IT consulting agency, TGS manages all features of a shopper’s IT atmosphere, together with knowledge facilities, software program, safety platforms, and end-user units.
When CEO Lenora Payne based the corporate in 2005, she dedicated to a customer-centric, holistic strategy that facilities on integrity, honesty, and dependability. It’s a approach of doing enterprise that aligns to Cisco’s objective, to energy an inclusive future for all.
TGS’s development has been fueled partly by their work with Cisco. TGS was an early member of the African American Cisco Companion Neighborhood.
On account of TGS’s relationship with Cisco, TGS has been capable of increase their enterprise into reselling, logistics, transport, and buyer expertise. They’ve additionally strengthened their function of their clients’ provider variety packages with main corporations starting from monetary companies to consumer-packaged items to retail.
Whereas rising their enterprise, TGS additionally all the time seeks to offer again to their communities. One of many methods they’ve finished that’s via their philanthropic SHIPs program. SHIPs empowers college students via six packages targeted on partnership, mentorship, scholarship, internship, apprenticeship, and management.
Since TGS first grew to become a Cisco associate, the corporate has grown tremendously. Within the early years, Payne might solely dream of reaching $1 million in annual revenues. Since then, they’ve seen that variety of $100 million and the corporate boasts a formidable roster of consumers, together with being the Official Info Expertise supplier for the Nationwide Soccer League’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs franchise.
KeepWOL: Fostering Connections and Bettering Crew Efficiency
As a Cisco Developer Companion, KeepWOL took its group effectiveness platform and turned it right into a Webex integration designed to boost communication and collaboration for digital groups.
KeepWOL—quick for Hold Questioning Out Loud—is an AI-powered platform that addresses the pervasive challenges of collaboration and communication in as we speak’s enterprise panorama.
Whereas working as an engineering and expertise growth individuals chief, Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks needed to effectively get to know the individuals on the groups she led. So, she constructed a device to assist individuals join, hear, and study. She gamified the strategy, making it easy and entertaining. It was a technique to break down partitions and jumpstart significant relationships—and that led on to her groups transport merchandise quicker than others.
She turned her answer into one thing all groups can use and based KeepWOL, the place she serves as CEO.
Now, clients can use KeepWOL instantly from Webex. By integrating KeepWOL into video conferences, groups take pleasure in extra collaborative digital conferences that enhance human connectivity amongst globally dispersed groups.
“In a world the place 86% of office failures stem from ineffective communication and collaboration, KeepWOL ensures that each worker’s voice is heard and understood. On the similar time, it tracks key efficiency indicators throughout six essential areas, enabling a steady knowledge stream for decision-makers.” – Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks, CEO of KeepWOL
That’s a robust device for corporations to combine into the video assembly platform their staff use day by day.
Partnering with Cisco made sense for KeepWOL. First, as a result of KeepWOL’s strategy to communication and collaboration is designed to change into a pure a part of an worker’s common workflow. With Webex turning into an more and more integral a part of staff’ workdays, an integration maximizes the effectiveness of each Webex and KeepWOL. Second, as a result of KeepWOL’s mission is to create a world constructed on a basis of all the time in search of to know as an alternative of a world constructed on assumptions and judgments. That strongly aligns to Cisco’s Acutely aware Tradition the place our objective is to energy an inclusive future for all.
The proof of their strategy is in not solely the expansion of their buyer base, but in addition the outcomes KeepWOL delivers. At one multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences firm, for instance, group engagement improved by 49% and job satisfaction went up 20%. That resulted in a 20% enhance in retention chance, which is saving the corporate almost $200,000 in hiring prices per group. It’s no shock, that 94% of customers suggest KeepWOL.
Turia Expertise: Innovating on the Intersection of Expertise and Sustainability
As a Cisco Integrator Companion with an Environmental Sustainability Specialization, Turia Expertise helps private and non-private sector clients navigate the intricacies of cloud migration whereas considerably decreasing their carbon footprints via eco-friendly practices.
“We ship scalable, safe, user-friendly cloud options that enhance operational efficiency and optimize digital infrastructure whereas leveraging Cisco’s applied sciences and experience. Partnering with Cisco positions us to supply cutting-edge options aligned with social influence targets.” – Binta Kindle, Co-Founder and CEO of Turia Expertise
There are many corporations providing to assist clients with cloud migrations, however Turia takes their companies to the subsequent stage with eco-friendly practices, together with energy-efficient {hardware}, virtualization, and cloud computing.
Like Cisco, Turia believes that operating a enterprise doesn’t should be at odds with caring for and contributing to our communities and our planet. Their options each contribute to environmental conservation and end in value financial savings for his or her shoppers. Turia’s dedication to leaving a optimistic environmental legacy for future generations aligns strongly with Cisco’s objective to energy an inclusive future for all.
Partnerships Powering an Inclusive Future for All
Payne, Shanks, and Kindle every noticed a necessity and a possibility and based a expertise firm based mostly on that imaginative and prescient. By partnering with Cisco, they’ve been capable of speed up their corporations’ development whereas additionally making the world a greater place for corporations, staff, their communities, and the world.
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