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From Rejections to Sold-Out Session: My Journey to the Cisco Live Stage

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From Rejections to Sold-Out Session: My Journey to the Cisco Live Stage

For years, I watched Cisco Live sessions with admiration — each one sparking the same thought in my mind: “One day, I want to be up there, too.” I applied to speak at Cisco Live year after year, refining ideas, evolving with technology trends, and learning from each “thank you, but not this time” email, each one a small sting of disappointment, but also motivation to keep pushing forward. In 2025, that dream finally became…

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From Challenges to Strengths: A Journey of Resilience and Growth at Cisco

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From Challenges to Strengths: A Journey of Resilience and Growth at Cisco

Cisco is more than where I work — it’s the language I speak, the DNA I carry. Since joining in 2015, my career has unfolded within Cisco’s ecosystem. I began in channel sales and evolved through multiple roles. Even when I stepped away for a year to explore the customer side with one of Cisco’s partners, it never felt like a goodbye, just a temporary detour. That journey brought me back in 2022. While attending…

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Building Families: How Cisco’s Supportive Policies Made My Motherhood Possible

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Building Families: How Cisco’s Supportive Policies Made My Motherhood Possible

The amazing support I had for my journey towards motherhood was atypical, and for that, I’m both grateful and wish . I conceived after over four years of battling infertility. If you aren’t familiar with fertility treatments, we’re talking countless hours, thousands of dollars, and many, many heartbreaks. The biggest heartbreak of all was the realization that even though I was incredibly fortunate, my journey to the birth of my twin girls would’ve been drastically different,…

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Tech and Heart: How Technology and Volunteerism Support Elderly Well-Being

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Tech and Heart: How Technology and Volunteerism Support Elderly Well-Being

  This blog was written by Donna Jackson, Senior Strategic Contract Negotiator at Cisco, global co-lead of Cisco’s Adult Caregivers Inclusive Community, and Founder and Executive Director of the Noble Strength Foundation and its Age To Age® program. Through a network of global volunteers, Age To Age® helps the elderly combat loneliness and isolation by connecting them to their loved ones—anywhere in the world—using the Age To Age® platform and Cisco’s Webex conferencing technology.  …

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How a Passion for Languages Led to a Global Career at Cisco

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How a Passion for Languages Led to a Global Career at Cisco

“¿Qué ondas?” That’s a familiar greeting in El Salvador, where I’m from, a land where surf and coffee blend harmoniously. When I was growing up there as a kid, my grandma asked me if I wanted to take summer classes. She gave me three choices: drawing, math, or English classes. At the time, I felt like I was good enough in math. I was more into music than drawing. So, she paid for my summer…

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How Cisco’s Focus On Talent Transformed My Tech Career

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How Cisco’s Focus On Talent Transformed My Tech Career

This post was authored by Khushi Saxena, a technical consulting engineer intern on the Customer Experience Team. I never imagined that a global giant like Cisco would notice someone like me — yet here I am, living proof that skills matter more than background. Coming from an entirely non-technical background, my first year of college felt like stepping into a completely different world. While others seemed to have a head start, talking about data structures,…

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“We're Renovating!” Mission Improbable: The Office Adventure

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“We're Renovating!” Mission Improbable: The Office Adventure

“Office closed for renovations.” For someone who actually enjoys coming to the office (Yes, even on Fridays!), this could have been my villain origin story. But instead, I decided to turn this challenge into a secret mission across Germany. Instead of my usual role of Collaboration Account Executive, where I specialize in customer engagement and live demonstrations of our world-class collaboration solutions, I went “undercover” at Cisco customer and partner locations, and a few coworking…

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The Heart of Cisco: A Family Beyond Work

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The Heart of Cisco: A Family Beyond Work

Grief … I’ve always believed in owning and sharing my truth, hoping it might help others. But what happens when your truth is so heavy it feels like it might crush you? On May 28th, my world shattered. I got the devastating call that my sister, Tabitha, and my father, William, had passed away. Since then, it’s been days filled with anger, heartbreak, and confusion. I was on a business trip when I received the…

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Work, Life, Purpose: The Transformational Journey of Giving Back

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Work, Life, Purpose: The Transformational Journey of Giving Back

Work-life balance — aiming for it is admirable. Achieving it is next to impossible. Even if we carefully balance the marketing plans, pipeline reviews, and presentations with the laundry, childcare, and home repair, we can end up exhausted and frustrated. But if you want to transform your point of view, stop worrying about trying to equally distribute all the stuff on your plate and begin factoring in the significance of the tasks. If you check…

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Finding Light in the Darkness through Cisco’s Compassionate Culture

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Finding Light in the Darkness through Cisco’s Compassionate Culture

Contentment washes over me today as I watch my daughter play, a feeling I wouldn’t have recognized just a few years ago. Back then, I was in a relentless storm of challenges. I struggled with infertility and the grueling process of IVF treatments. An ectopic pregnancy resulted in emergency surgery, and for nearly five years, I carried the weight of being separated from my mom due to work, travel bans, visa applications, and the demands…

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