CIOCAN: Fireside chat with Shannon Leininger, President, Cisco Canada
March 11, 2022 (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) (EST)
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Celebrating International Women's Day 2022
Please join us on March 11th at 2:00 p.m. EST for a Fireside Chat with Shannon Leininger, President of Cisco Canada and Catherine Chick, Senior Vice President, IT of Canada Goose.
This candid conversation with one of Canada's leading technology business leaders will explore Shannon’s perspective on leadership, career development, and how technology can support diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Shannon has been a vocal and active champion for full-spectrum diversity and inclusion initiatives throughout her 15-year career at Cisco and beyond. An accomplished leader known for developing high-performing teams, she currently serves as an Executive Sponsor for Cisco's Social Justice Actions and Beliefs and as the Canada Executive Sponsor for PRIDE LGBTQ+ & Allies, Cisco's LGBTQ+ Inclusive Community. She previously served as the Canada Executive Sponsor for Women of Cisco, an Inclusive Community whose purpose is to attract, develop, retain and celebrate talented women as part of a competitive and diverse workforce.
In this session you will learn more about:
- Shannon's career path and approach to leadership
- Her advice for allies and other women working in the technology industry
- Cisco's focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices
- The role of technology in talent acquisition, retention, and development
Please register now and join us for an inspiring conversation that you won’t want to miss. All registration proceeds will be donated to Hackergal.
Shannon Leininger
President, Cisco Canada
As President of Cisco Canada, Shannon proudly leads a diverse and innovative organization that consistently ranks among Cisco’s top markets globally and acts as a proving ground for some of the company’s most advanced and leading-edge technologies. She believes that in order to help Canadian organizations accelerate their digital journey, there must be a commitment to solution innovation, world-class technology architectures, and a relentless dedication to mission success.
With Cisco since 2007, Shannon has built a legacy of developing high-performing teams and advocating for the next generation of leaders. She is an innovative, entrepreneurially-minded leader with a long-term view on vision and strategy who believes that great results come from careful planning.
Prior to leading Cisco Canada, Shannon held several leadership roles within Cisco. Most recently she oversaw the State/Local Government and Education Market (East) in Cisco’s U.S. Public Sector Organization as the Area Vice President based out of Washington, DC. In this role Shannon led initiatives to accelerate digital transformation of public sector organizations and help them navigate rapid technological change – including mobility, big data and analytics, IoT, and cloud and shared services – to better protect, serve and educate citizens. She also served in other public sector roles, where she aligned the customer mission with Cisco Solutions to solve some of the largest challenges in the Federal Civilian market. Throughout her career, Shannon has been a driving force for inclusion and diversity initiatives and is a champion of Cisco’s purpose to power an inclusive future for all. She currently serves as an Executive Sponsor for Cisco's Social Justice Actions and Beliefs and for Cisco’s Americas Inclusion & Collaboration Initiative – which is working to design, deliver and implement inclusive workforce practices in how we hire, develop and engage the full spectrum of talent diversity at Cisco. Shannon also serves as the Executive Sponsor for PRIDE LGBTQ+ & Allies Canada, a Cisco Inclusive Community dedicated to ensuring LGBTQ+ employees can bring their whole selves to work, be well and excel, and be part of a supportive and socially responsible community. She previously served as the Executive Sponsor for Women of Cisco Canada, a community whose purpose is to attract, develop, retain and celebrate talented women as part of a competitive and diverse workforce.
Prior to Cisco, Shannon held sales leadership roles at Toronto-based software company Platform Computing (now part of IBM) and Ernst and Young Technologies (EYT) leading the Asia Pacific technology division expansion strategy. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Government and Politics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
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