How to set up a Reverse Mentoring Program in 10 Steps

In 2011, I wrote a blog called “The Results: How Reverse Mentoring Can Enhance Diversity and Inclusion”. The blog described the benefits, the lessons learned and the most popular areas to mentor from a Reverse Mentoring Program I led at Cisco. Since publishing this blog, I’ve been touched by the number of people who have […]

Diversity – The Key to Better Business

Putting diverse talent into high-profile and high-impact roles is one of the most significant ways an organization can sustainably alter its diversity profile. The minute that happens, the narrative starts to shift because those great leaders start to put their own thoughts, views, and vision of the world into the organization. That is what I believe to be the real “needle mover.”

How a 19th Century Poem Sings the Songs of Present Day Millennials in the Digital Workplace

Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work, Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,Pioneers! O pioneers! – Walt Whitman, “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”  There’s a certain irony to looking to a 19th century poem as a sort of battle cry of the age-old tug-of-war […]

Research Innovations in Simple Usable Security

Every year the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy, to present and discuss the latest research in the areas of usable security and privacy. Cisco’s sponsorship of SOUPS supports student research and mentorship in this area (see below), as […]