Business Development Manager, Technical Services, Cisco Systems
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Business Development Manager, Technical Services at Cisco
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- Program Manager, Engineering Enablement at Cisco Systems
- Director, Sales Operations at Estuate, Inc.
- Director, Business Development; Senior Account Executive at Nelson Family of Companies
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- California Pacific Medical Center
- Harvard University
- Scripps College
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Kathryn Welds’s Summary
Kathryn's varied background as a technology consultant, industry analyst, marketing and sales executive, and organizational psychologist with global business experience, provide a fresh perspective to support Cisco's Technical Service sales, use of Open Source software in its products, and 700 member Women in Technology Action Network.
At Oracle Corporation, she defined industry-specific business processes, evangelized human resources applications, and managed global transformation projects. Her work in business development was recognized with several Top Performer awards.
Recognized with a Rising Star award for research leadership with technology consulting firm Aberdeen Group, she provided competitive analysis and market strategy services.
Kathryn led business integration and Voice of the Customer initiatives at Hewlett-Packard, and directed Mercer Human Resource Consulting’s West Coast specialty healthcare benefits practice.
After establishing the first employee assistance program for Levi Strauss & Co., Inc., she founded a specialty health program for a multi-location metropolitan medical group.
Consulting, expatriate assignments, and speaking engagements have taken her around the globe to more than 70 countries (half in emerging markets), and she's authored more than 40 publications on technology, workplace, healthcare, and educational issues.
A graduate of Scripps College (B.A., Psychology, Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D., Personality and Developmental Psychology), she completed post-doctoral fellowships at Cornell University Medical College (New York City), California Pacific Medical Center (San Francisco), and the Graduate School of Management at University of California (Irvine).
Kathryn is a licensed, board-certified psychologist in California, and taught at Harvard University, Pepperdine University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of San Francisco, and others.
Kathryn Welds’s Specialties:
Business development, Program management, Process improvement, Strategy definition and execution, DMAIC, Change management, Product marketing, Solution marketing, Competitive intelligence, Market research, Marketing operations, Customer loyalty, Analyst relations, Sales operations, Web 2.0, Quality improvement, Voice of the Customer, Competency mapping and development, stakeholder management, facilitation, global work experience, psychology
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Kathryn Welds’s Interests:
Admissions Interviewer, Harvard College Cisco Women in Technology Action Network Co-Chair, Chair of Recruitment/Outreach, Communications Mentor, Interviewer, Upwardly Global Tutor, East Palo Alto, CA Charter School Publications, presentations, research, consultation assignments, client list, certifications, licenses, teaching engagements, continuing education, and community service on request.
Kathryn Welds’s Groups:
Academy of Management, International Management Program Review Committee
American Association for Counseling and Development, Media Review Board
American Psychological Association, Consulting - Associate Editor, Consulting Psychology Bulletin
Industrial and Organizational - Continuing Education Committee, Association Board of Educational Affairs, Education Award Committee, Committee on the Approval of Continuing Education Sponsors and Chair, Publications Committee, Division of Group Psychotherapy
Prescribing Psychologists Register, Regional Director and Curriculum Development Committee
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Continuing Education and Workshop Committee
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IRN-SF
Kathryn Welds’s Honors:
Oracle Direct Top Performer Award
Oracle Direct “Top Dawg” Award
Aberdeen Group “Rising Star” Award
Travel Grant, Los Angeles Pierce College, to Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, Kilkenny, IR
Travel Grant, American Council of Learned Societies (funded by J.T. & C. MacArthur Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities) to InterAmerican Congress of Psychology, Buenos Aires, AR
Harvard University Scholar-in-Residence
Sigma Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research
Radcliffe College Grant to Graduate Women at Harvard
Volunteer Bureau of North Orange County, CA: Semester At Sea World Cruise
California State Psychological Association Perkins Award for Best Student Paper
Hughes Aircraft GO Club Grant, Fullerton, CA: Elementary School District Program Evaluation - Emotional and Developmental Disabilities
Scripps College, Claremont, CA: Esterly Research Grant
M.S. Slocum Award
