Empowering Accomplice Success: How 3 Black Feminine CEOs lead the cost with AACPC

The Empowering Accomplice Success weblog sequence highlights the African American Cisco Accomplice Neighborhood (AACPC), supporting channel companions, and people positively impacting accomplice variety and the communities they serve.

 

Celebrating Girls’s Historical past Month just lately impressed us to kick off the primary installment on this sequence by that includes three African American Cisco Accomplice Neighborhood (AACPC) members which might be women-led. Cisco dedicated $50 million to the AACPC to diversify our accomplice 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 know-how 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 known as TGS—is a Cisco Integrator Accomplice. A full-service IT consulting agency, TGS manages all features of a consumer’s IT setting, together with information 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 means of doing enterprise that aligns to Cisco’s function, to energy an inclusive future for all.

TGS’s progress has been fueled partly by their work with Cisco. TGS was an early member of the African American Cisco Accomplice Neighborhood.

On account of TGS’s relationship with Cisco, TGS has been capable of increase their enterprise into reselling, logistics, delivery, and buyer expertise. They’ve additionally strengthened their position of their prospects’ provider variety applications with main firms starting from monetary companies to consumer-packaged items to retail.

Whereas rising their enterprise, TGS additionally at all times seeks to offer again to their communities. One of many methods they’ve finished that’s by their philanthropic SHIPs program. SHIPs empowers college students by six applications targeted on partnership, mentorship, scholarship, internship, apprenticeship, and management.

Since TGS first grew to become a Cisco accomplice, the corporate has grown tremendously. Within the early years, Payne may 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 Data Expertise supplier for the Nationwide Soccer League’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs franchise.

KeepWOL: Fostering Connections and Bettering Group Efficiency

As a Cisco Developer Accomplice, KeepWOL took its staff effectiveness platform and turned it right into a Webex integration designed to reinforce communication and collaboration for digital groups.

KeepWOL—brief 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 know-how growth folks chief, Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks needed to effectively get to know the folks on the groups she led. So, she constructed a software to assist folks join, hear, and be taught. She gamified the strategy, making it easy and entertaining. It was a approach to break down partitions and jumpstart significant relationships—and that led on to her groups delivery merchandise sooner than others.

She turned her answer into one thing all groups can use and based KeepWOL, the place she serves as CEO.

Now, prospects can use KeepWOL immediately 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,” Shanks says. “On the similar time, it tracks key efficiency indicators throughout six vital areas, enabling a steady information stream for decision-makers.”

That’s a robust software for firms to combine into the video assembly platform their workers use every single day.

Partnering with Cisco made sense for KeepWOL. First, as a result of KeepWOL’s strategy to communication and collaboration is designed to turn into a pure a part of an worker’s common workflow. With Webex turning into an more and more integral a part of workers’ 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 at all times searching for to know as a substitute of a world constructed on assumptions and judgments. That strongly aligns to Cisco’s Acutely aware Tradition the place our function 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, staff 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 staff. It’s no shock, that 94% of customers advocate KeepWOL.

Turia Expertise: Innovating on the Intersection of Expertise and Sustainability

As a Cisco Integrator Accomplice with an Environmental Sustainability Specialization, Turia Expertise helps private and non-private sector prospects navigate the intricacies of cloud migration whereas considerably decreasing their carbon footprints by 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,” says Co-Founder and CEO Binta Kindle. “Partnering with Cisco positions us to supply cutting-edge options aligned with social impression targets.”

There are many firms providing to assist prospects with cloud migrations, however Turia takes their companies to the following stage with eco-friendly practices, together with energy-efficient {hardware}, virtualization, and cloud computing.

Like Cisco, Turia believes that working a enterprise doesn’t need to 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 purchasers. Turia’s dedication to leaving a optimistic environmental legacy for future generations aligns strongly with Cisco’s function to energy an inclusive future for all.

Partnerships Powering an Inclusive Future for All

Payne, Shanks, and Kindle every noticed a necessity and a chance and based a know-how firm based mostly on that imaginative and prescient. By partnering with Cisco, they’ve been capable of speed up their firms’ progress whereas additionally making the world a greater place for firms, workers, their communities, and the world.

 

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