Sandy T. is a Sr. Director, Security & Trust, Data Protection & Privacy at Cisco Systems. Colleagues describe them as "Sandy is an experienced leader who excels at encouraging her leadership team to make the best risk-based decisions. She shares her experience, providing guidance as needed while openly talking through various options, and trusts her team to lead effectively. She knows how to bring out the best in you and works to get you to next level in your career development. " and "Sandy is a great leader with the ability to move teams through disruptive technical transitions. At a time when we were given a corporate imperative to bring master's level data science/complex analytics training into the organization, Sandy took on the challenge by immersing herself in the training. This training involved class attendance, exams, and corporate presentations to share the value of driving decision making based on analytics. Her leadership style is lead by example. Her participation and partnership in driving the adoption of these new skills, helped make the corporate adoption of these skills a success. She continued to exhibit leadership as she leveraged the skills in her role as she transitioned into Security & Trust, Data Protection, & Privacy. I've also partnered with Sandy on mentoring new hires, a passion that we both share. She always set the example of excellence in everything she touched. She shared her time, wisdom, and passions to help the new hires immediately become highly performing contributors in a complex corporate environment. Sandy is a tremendous leader, passionate about excellence, and about helping those around her reach their personal level of excellence. "