About

Ayelet Baron, Chief Instigator

If you want to understand how to drive your business strategy, Ayelet brings hands on experience of effectively implementing business and sales strategy through people and an innovative approach to integrating social tools to drive solid business results. She is a strategist who helps leaders address the complex choices they face – in strategy, sales, marketing, operations, people, governance and social media – and the impact of their decisions. Her pragmatic and global experience helps leaders navigate through complexity and she has earned a reputation for unlocking innovative, new world business solutions.

Ayelet speaks regularly at industry conferences on social business, online communities, generations at work, the future of work and global business strategy. She also shows youth in Africa how to change their destiny by using social media tools. She has served as an executive at Cisco in multiple global roles, a strategic consultant and as an entrepreneur.

Ayelet was recently on the Executive Leadership Team of Cisco Canada, leading strategy and transformation and helped position Canada as the second largest revenue generating country for Cisco. Prior to that she was on the executive team of Cisco’s Emerging Markets. She brings a truckload of successes and failures she learned from, with more than 16 years of industry experience and over 12 years of global leadership experience at Cisco.

Ayelet was selected as a Cisco Leadership Fellow, where she developed a social networking handbook for social good to improve community building and information sharing. She worked with leading CIOs to develop a strategy to create better collaboration between social entrepreneurs and practitioners and she also led the ICT4D healthcare initiatives to create greater collaboration between the private, public and citizen sector organizations. She recently joined the Board og goal4.org focused on maternal health and works with youth in Kenya.

Speaker Profile: https://app.speakerfile.com/speaker/ayelet.baron