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Gaye I. Clemson

Capitola,California

Summary

Seasoned, results-oriented, strategist and team player skilled at driving innovation, transformational change and effective issue resolution leading to exemplary cross-functional team success. Proven functional track record in marketing, sales enablement, post-sales customer support, IT and global business operations.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Managing Director

Globalinkage Consulting
Capitola, California
07.1996 - 12.2024
  • Delivered a wide variety of project-based customer, sales, marketing, partner, and employee experience enablement opportunity research and strategic planning assessments at multiple organizational levels.functions, and industries.
  • Designed and facilitated 80+ planning, training, issue resolution, leadership coaching, and change management workshops that improved strategic alignment, marketing and customer success, sales effectiveness, and accelerated Time-to-IPO.
  • Customers have included Cisco, Informatica, Sybase, Oracle, SAP, Tandem/HP, Wells Fargo Bank, Visa International, and IBM, as well as multiple start-ups.

Principal Transformation Change Consultant

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Milpitas, California
09.2013 - 07.2023

Orchestrated operating model, organizational design and culture change planning for 3 key Cisco business model transformation efforts including two Cisco acquisitions, the, evolution of the Enterprise Networking business to a software subscription-based model and the creation a new customer success division based on Adoption, Expand & Renew SaaS motions.

  • Developed, conducted and facilitated a wide variety of change-related situational, strategic, execution capacity assessments, surveys, issue management focus groups, and 'Sprints' that strengthened customer, partner and employee engagement and enablement.
  • Designed and delivered multiple predictive dashboards and scorecards to improve leadership decision-making agility, adaptability, and issue resolution time.

Sr. Portfolio and Program Manager

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Milpitas, California
02.2006 - 07.2011

Managed annual strategic planning processes and oversight of tactical execution for three multi-million-dollar strategic initiative portfolios in Technical Services ($80M), Services Sales ($50M) and Workplace Resources ($10M).

  • Delivered quarterly operational business reviews, Balanced Scorecard execution progress, and a global workplace satisfaction assessment program..
  • Managed a multi-person global team that delivered employee services communications programs, including an employee workplace information portal, education forums, and All Hands Team meetings updates, which strengthened employee engagement and team identity.
  • Successfully shifted the leadership team’s strategic planning approach from ‘break-fix’ to a more strategic, longer-term framework that enabled more collaborative operational execution and timely issues management..

Education

Honours, Bachelor of Commerce - Business

Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario Canada

Advanced Program Mgmt. Certificate - Program and Portfolio Management

Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA

Certificates - Design Thinking, Kotter Change Mgmt

Cisco Internal Training
Milpitas, CA

Certificates - Mandell Comms & ‘Stand-Up Presentation Mastery

Cisco Internal Training
Milpitas, CA

Skills

  • Highly skilled communicator and storyteller
  • Visionary strategist and problem solver
  • Agile/Adaptive leadership skills coach and mentor
  • Proactive customer, partner, channel, and employee advocate
  • Creative predictive analytics expert
  • Successful culture change leader

Accomplishments

  • Published author of 14 books, 24 LI articles, and podcaster with nearly 70 episodes and 38K downloads
  • Public speaker at many industry conferences including the Int'l Association of Strategy Professionals, American Psychological Association, Silicon Valley OD Network, and the Bay Area Human Resources Executive Council .

Timeline

Principal Transformation Change Consultant

Cisco Systems, Inc.
09.2013 - 07.2023

Sr. Portfolio and Program Manager

Cisco Systems, Inc.
02.2006 - 07.2011

Managing Director

Globalinkage Consulting
07.1996 - 12.2024

Honours, Bachelor of Commerce - Business

Queen's University

Advanced Program Mgmt. Certificate - Program and Portfolio Management

Stanford University

Certificates - Design Thinking, Kotter Change Mgmt

Cisco Internal Training

Certificates - Mandell Comms & ‘Stand-Up Presentation Mastery

Cisco Internal Training
Gaye I. Clemson