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

Celebrating Girls’s Historical past Month not too long ago impressed us to kick off the primary installment on this collection by that includes three African American Cisco Accomplice Neighborhood (AACPC) members which are women-led. Cisco dedicated $50 million to the AACPC to diversify our associate ecosystem as a part of its dedication to social justice.

Know-how Group Options, KeepWOL, and Turia Know-how are Cisco companions that present a variety of expertise options and providers—and every has a feminine founder/CEO on the helm.

Know-how Group Options: Full Service Consulting and Giving Again to Communities

Know-how 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 surroundings, together with information facilities, software program, safety platforms, and end-user gadgets.

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 method of doing enterprise that aligns to Cisco’s objective, 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, transport, and buyer expertise. They’ve additionally strengthened their function of their prospects’ provider variety packages with main corporations starting from monetary providers 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 executed 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 turned a Cisco associate, 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 powerful roster of shoppers, together with being the Official Data Know-how supplier for the Nationwide Soccer League’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs franchise.

KeepWOL: Fostering Connections and Bettering Workforce Efficiency

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

KeepWOL—brief for Maintain Questioning Out Loud—is an AI-powered platform that addresses the pervasive challenges of collaboration and communication in in the present day’s enterprise panorama.

Whereas working as an engineering and expertise growth individuals chief, Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks wished to effectively get to know the individuals on the groups she led. So, she constructed a software 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 resolution 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 get pleasure from extra collaborative digital conferences that improve 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 identical time, it tracks key efficiency indicators throughout six important areas, enabling a steady information stream for decision-makers.”

That’s a strong software for corporations to combine into the video assembly platform their workers use daily.

Partnering with Cisco made sense for KeepWOL. First, as a result of KeepWOL’s strategy to communication and collaboration is designed to turn out to be a pure a part of an worker’s common workflow. With Webex changing 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 an alternative of a world constructed on assumptions and judgments. That strongly aligns to Cisco’s 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 additionally 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% improve in retention chance, which is saving the corporate practically $200,000 in hiring prices per staff. It’s no shock, that 94% of customers suggest KeepWOL.

Turia Know-how: Innovating on the Intersection of Know-how and Sustainability

As a Cisco Integrator Accomplice with an Environmental Sustainability Specialization, Turia Know-how helps private and non-private sector prospects 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 increase 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 offer cutting-edge options aligned with social affect targets.”

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

Like Cisco, Turia believes that working a enterprise doesn’t must 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 constructive 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 chance and based a expertise firm primarily based on that imaginative and prescient. By partnering with Cisco, they’ve been capable of speed up their corporations’ progress whereas additionally making the world a greater place for corporations, workers, their communities, and the world.

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