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Kelly Petrich
Kelly Petrich
Director, Community Impact
Social Impact and Inclusion Office
Kelly brings more than 20 years of experience in building strategic, data-driven CSR and employee/consumer engagements. She leads Cisco’s Community Impact team, which engages global employees in taking positive actions for people, planet and society and extends our purpose driven opportunities to our partners, customers, and suppliers.
Kelly led a strategic transformation to achieve Cisco’s ambitious goal of 80% employee engagement via the development of an inclusive framework of offerings, building integrated digital platforms for scale, and scaffolding processes that weave community impact into corporate culture.
Prior to Cisco, Kelly managed community initiatives with the SanDisk Foundation, built client CSR strategies with global advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi, and first established her social impact career through roles in the US federal government and nonprofit sector.
Articles
With ten days off to volunteer through our Time2Give program, $10,000 in matching donations, and tens of thousands employees participating, Cisconians are empowered to turn Purpose into action. See our impact in FY25, and what's ahead for FY26.
For Global Volunteer Month, we take a look at all the ways Cisco supports employees volunteering in their communities.
In fiscal 2024, for the fifth year in a row, more than 80% of employees participated in community impact by giving their time, money, talent, and skills.
Cisco's purpose is to Power an Inclusive Future for All, and at the heart of this is the belief that doing good for the world is good for business. Our journey to engage our employees for positive impact has been the foundation for building a purpose-driven employee culture.
