Michael Lay Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Fl, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Senior leader reporting into the Chief Diversity Officer, leading a global team of 7 that manages our enterprise strategy and execution for all employee based emerging and inclusive communities including Employee Resource Organizations (EROs), Business Initiated Networks, Emerging Communities, Virtual Groups and functional Diversity Ambassadors. Recognized excellence in management of external strategic partnerships that align with our inclusion and diversity partnership goals and metrics with organizations including HRC, Out & Equal, Lesbians Who Tech, HITEC, Out4Undergrad, and Springboard Consulting (Disabilities) and Diversity Best Practices.Drove inclusive future for all via metric-driven model that identifies the key aspects and plans of supporting highly inclusive communities, creation of innovative approaches (mind sets, skillsets, and toolsets) which unleash the true power of diversity and inclusion at all levels in the company.Managed multi million dollar portfolio annual budget that supports our inclusive communities and experiences across the regions.Executed program goals with talent acquisition and university recruitment teams to provide an inclusive and consistent approach leads to increased diverse talent pipeline and equal opportunities.Created strategy and implementation for community digitization efforts including platform enabling a collaborative experiences across the communities while providing the company key indicators and sentiments of the various communities.Created policy documents and conduct various awareness and sensitivity training for employees and departments that need additional support related courageous conversations, social justice, accommodations, ally programs and gender expression and LGBTQ+ solutions for our workplace to support all e players with fair and in Inclusive policies.

San Jose, Ca, Us

HR Site Leader covering all Metro Atlanta Cisco offices including campus locations in Atlanta, Lawrenceville, and Alpharetta focusing on campus safety, policy, community relations, and directing general HR, employee concerns, employee engagement, culture, and leadership development.Active alignment to functional business execs and HR Partners to drive employee engagement as part of our Cisco People Deal. Site strategy, workforce planning, local site leadership development forums, on-boarding assistance, campus event planning, site and benefit program delivery, and acquisition integration were all aspects of the success of this role. Co-Chair of Atlanta Cisco Citizen Civic Council which decided and coordinated civic corporate giving back programs and fundraising for the Atlanta area among all of many Cisco offices in Greater Atlanta. Primary liaison to all Employee Resource Group to facilitate activities that reinforces corporate culture, site strategy, and a cultural connection to the site that promoted and increased volunteering and corporate flagship events for employees to experience. Served as a Cisco representative within community as corporate sponsor for the regions and engaged with key government agencies and partnerships as required or needed.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Aligned to organizations such as services sales, technical services, small business and corporate quality. Led large scale structural and organizational design changes. Recommended alignment of HR annual cycle program programs to ensure decisions are made with diversity and talent strategies as guiding indicators. Supported SVP and VPs within global 4,000-employee group including leader development programs, executive talent review and compensation process, executive coaching, talent attraction and site strategy development, succession planning, team building, and talent agility. Provided program leadership for reviewing company-wide limited restructures.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Field Sales Administrative Manager lead for WW Sales Operations team. Partnered with Area VP's, Operations Managers, Controllers, Marketing, Human Resources Managers, related to managing daily field sales operations, targeted sales objectives. Administered operating budget, orchestrated seamless office redesign, relocation, maintenance, and transition processes. Managed and successfully executed numerous concurrent ad hoc special projects.Provided individual and group sales training, strategically delegated team assignments, and optimized workload and resource utilization processes. Trained, developed, and directed staff across the globe. Lead US and Canada-based Administrative Managers, evaluated/restructured workload assignments, and improved team morale, productivity, and efficiency.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Evaluated system, policy, and data management processes, built project-specific process management tools, implemented, standardized, and centralized quality and process improvements, and assured global end-to-end field sales team readiness, operational governance, and consistency. Served as IT business partner, reviewed complex projects with multiple stakeholders, defined/implemented long-term scalable solutions across enterprise-wide systems, processes, and programs.Maximized utility of virtual/remote communication and technology tools, resulting in improved quality of information sharing among the global teams. Provided input on business strategy, process implementation and resource modeling for global organization. Annually managed year-end planning processes including data integrity, tool and system alignment, and resource allocation.Conducted application tool testing processes, identified defects and shortfalls, implemented corrective action plans, and assured application functionality and accessibility. Partnered with communications team, led change management initiatives, analyzed diverse impacts and perspectives, educated end-user on new tool applications, methodologies, and processes.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Coordinated collaboration between functional teams including sales and IT, delivering integrated IT support and services of desktop hardware, software, business applications to the field offices.Created and distributed monthly field communications related to IT’s strategy and deployments of various IT infrastructure projects to Cisco field sales offices. Member of Unity and Showcase Site core project team recognized as IT Champion contributors.Managed IT project activities related to the deployment of enhanced audio conferencing (in-ceiling audio), on-line meeting collaboration tools, virtual team workspaces, and video conferencing for field sales offices.Managed contract negotiations and procurement with vendors, Workplace Resources (WPR), and InfoSecurity (InfoSec). Consulted with various project owners across functions to enhance completeness, feasibility, acceptance of IT Showcase site technologies and deployment of Exchange and Unity voicemail in US and Canada field offices.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Conducted region/account manager performance-to-goal analysis, developed ongoing goal attainment reports, communicated personnel management strategy and recommendations, and improved forecasting accuracy and integrity.Partnered with sales leadership, restructured sales territories, and optimized team sales results. Planned, organized, and managed trade show site selection, logistics, registration, collateral adverting, and lead follow-up processes in NY Metro Area.Recruited, interviewed, and recommended qualified sales administrators and contracted personnel, trained/mentored administrative assistants, regional, and account managers, and improved personnel onboarding quality and efficiency at the Cisco NYC sales office.

Enabling life on the road so that all aspects of tour runs smoothly for everyone involved. Ensuring the band makes it safely to venues and hotels, managing money coming in and money going out, and dealing with Promoters and Venue Managers. Managed booking flights, ground, hotels, etc. Doing day sheets (info on what your day will be like including departure times, show times, soundcheck times, travel after the show, etc.) for band and crew. Worked on smaller tours (Van/trailer) and larger tours with bus oversight and scheduling. Engaged with record company management, publicity campaign artist managers, Booking Agents, Talent Buyers, Venue Managers, Promoters, Travel Agents, Band Members, Sound and Lighting Techs, Instrument Techs (Guitar Technicians, etc.), Sound Engineers, Tour Bus Drivers, Owning the loading of Equipment, Tour Coordinators, Production Managers, Tour Accountants and the Road Crew.

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Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Us

Associate'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies

College Internship, Film Production & Souting

High School, Broadcast Journalism, Theater Arts