How collaboration is changing the world
Collaboration is making the world smaller. Bringing Net Change Week to a celebratory close, Ayelet Baron shared her experiences working with youth who previously felt isolated and disempowered. Today, they feel they have a voice because of technologies that have helped them be part of the global village.
At Cisco, Ayelet Baron has been using TelePresence technology to bring girls together from Kenya with girls in Canada. She has helped these girls interact and develop relationships in ways that were not possible before and encouraged them to consider a career in IT.
How Collaboration is changing the world is brought to you in partnership with the Inspiring Action for Social Impact Series. Conceived and created by Social Innovation Generation, Inspiring Action for Social Impact is a national speakers’ series comprised of a mix of in-person and online public talks by international thought leaders, applied learning workshops and dialogue on practical strategies for social innovation in Canada. Led by the world’s leading social innovation thinkers and practitioners, the Inspiring Action for Social Impact Series will guide us through proven collaboration and co-creation approaches and strategies that are capable of generating practical solutions to Canada’s most pressing and complex social problems.
Ayelet Baron has earned recognition as an expert in online collaboration, social media, global business strategy and corporate social responsibility. Her particular area of focus is implementing strategy and driving business results through people and her passion is connecting people and making a difference in the lives of youth.
Ayelet is currently on the Executive Leadership Team of Cisco Canada, leading strategy and transformation. Prior to that she was on the executive team of Cisco’s Emerging Markets where she was looking at ways that emerging technologies can generate greater equity in Emerging Markets, as well as driving key sales initiatives internally at Cisco. With more than 16 years of industry experience and over 10 years of leadership experience at Cisco, including three global roles, Ayelet has a proven track record of success in implementing successful change initiatives.
Ayelet was selected as a Cisco Leadership Fellow, where she developed a social networking handbook for social good, which can be implemented by 26 global non-profit organizations 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.
Ayelet is a recognized industry leader and speaker on social media, strategic change, Emerging Markets, social entrepreneurship, emerging technologies and business strategy. She was recently on the Board of Directors of Family and Children Services and works with youth in Kenya.
Ayelet recently became a Social Media Advisor to One Degree Media and Entertainment, focused on delivering a community, media that matters and an e-commerce platform to make it easy to connect with the products and services you want.
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