Liz Centoni, Vice President, Strategy and Engineering Chief of Staff at Cisco and lead of Cisco's Connected Women's program
Mentor Monday: Cisco's Liz Centoni
Sarah Thomas
10/26/2015 | 9:47:14 AM
breaking out of your shell
Liz makes (many) good points for anyone to keep in mind, but especially technologists who may be used to working heads down on tech by themselves. Even if that's your prefered way of working and you tend to be introverted, you still need to develop the business acumen and people skills to move ahead in your career. It doesn't come naturally to all of us, but it's important to advancing and making a name for yourself. Liz definitely excels at this, and it's advice I try to follow (ie. accepting every speaking gig even though I hate public speaking!).
