Kelly Petrich
Director, Community Impact | Cisco Systems, Inc.
Kelly brings more than 20+ years of experience in building strategic, data-driven social impact and inclusion initiatives. She leads Cisco’s Community Impact and Inclusive Community team, which enables global employees to drive positive change though volunteerism and giving as well as involvement in over 30 Employee Resource Groups.
In the past 5 years, Kelly led a strategic transformation to achieve Cisco’s ambitious goal of engaging 80% of employees in giving back each 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.