Ever surprise how one can champion a trigger you imagine in at work? I sat down with a pacesetter within the Asia, Pacific, Japan, and China (APJC) area to study how she harnessed her roles inside Cisco—each within the Cisco Buyer Expertise group and as a core group volunteer with the Cisco Inexperienced Staff Community Inclusive Neighborhood, one among Cisco’s worker useful resource teams (ERGs), devoted to connecting Cisco staff for social and environmental actions. Be a part of us as we discover her journey, the significant collaboration with World Huge Fund For Nature Australia (WWF-Australia) since 2022, and the particular initiative at Cisco Reside APJC 2023!
May you begin by introducing your self?
My identify is Vivien Chia and I’m at present the Digital Advertising Supervisor throughout the Digital Buyer Expertise (DCX) group, accountable for the social media administration of Cisco Neighborhood—Cisco’s peer-to-peer on-line group portal and Cisco’s 2nd most visited digital property.
On prime of at the present time job, I’m additionally the APJC Lead of the International Inexperienced Staff Inclusive Neighborhood and a part of the core group of Australia and New Zealand Sustainable Atmosphere Community (ANZ Inexperienced Staff).
Therefore, I see the good alternative to attempt to incorporate sustainability into the Inexperienced Staff’s initiatives and additional interact our members to drive extra social and group impacts collectively.
May you inform me a bit bit in regards to the ANZ Inexperienced Staff?
The ANZ chapter of the Cisco Inexperienced Staff is made up of staff from throughout Cisco’s enterprise items who create, encourage and drive sustainability motion throughout Australia and New Zealand. We’re centered on:
- Constructing extra sustainable partnerships: Partaking and creating strategic collaboration with frequent function and alternatives.
- Giving again and volunteering: Inspiring motion, constructing resiliency and empowering us all to beat local weather disruptions and protect sources inside communities.
- Educating and constructing consciousness: Activating via partaking communications, giving again alternatives and occasions.
Inform us a bit in regards to the collaboration between ANZ Inexperienced Staff and WWF-Australia.
Our office giving journey with WWF began in August 2022 after Jay Inexperienced and I connecting with Henry Clough, Office Giving and Company Engagement Supervisor at WWF-Australia.
We had been drawn to WWF’s international mission to cease the degradation of the planet’s pure setting and to construct a future wherein people stay in concord with nature. WWF-Australia is now the nation’s largest conservation organisation with tasks and partnerships in each state and territory throughout the nation since its institution in 1978. They work collaboratively with communities, governments, Conventional Homeowners, non-government organisations (NGOs), scientists, business, and innovators. So we need to help them to assist drive optimistic change via resilient ecosystems.
The ANZ Inexperienced Staff nominated WWF-Australia for the Cisco Matching Items program, and have established an ongoing collaboration to highlight their essential work in defending wildlife and regenerating nature, together with Earth Hour 2023 and 2024 (take a look at the Earth Hour 2024 | Postcards from around the globe!).
In July 2023, we additionally efficiently nominated them for a Cisco Basis Regional Answer Grant (AUD$150,000) to assist fund their Australian Native Vegetation Mapping System venture; this is a crucial venture as a result of Australia is the one developed nation on the listing of 24 international deforestation fronts.
After which, it was a serious milestone for us to have them onsite at Cisco Reside APJC in 2023 because the official Charity Accomplice of the occasion. WWF-Australia and Inexperienced Staff engaged with the guests on the Sustainability Zone (led by Sarah Simpson), the place we helped undertake 100 koalas (AUD$18,000 donation worth)!
All groups had been thrilled with the success and look ahead to extra collaborations with WWF-Australia and different NGOs to assist make a distinction.
How did you additional prolong the giveback and group affect initiative eventually 12 months’s Cisco Reside APJC?
The ANZ Inexperienced Staff partnered with Cisco Neighborhood to activate our annual giveback initiative and convey it to life onsite. As a substitute of manufacturing a whole bunch of occasion giveaways, we needed one thing distinctive and extra sustainable, so the finances was diverted to help an excellent trigger via the ‘Neighborhood Serving to Neighborhood’ marketing campaign on the occasion. This was to boost consciousness of local weather change and promote collective effort to assist enhance the world collectively.
The group additionally directed foot visitors to the WWF-Australia sales space to undertake their very own koala. The symbolic motion to ‘undertake’ these iconic but threatened Australian species will assist save them from extinction. You possibly can be taught extra right here: Undertake a koala.
What are another methods Cisco staff are getting concerned?
It’s essential for workers to rethink their carbon footprint, whether or not it’s via work, at house, or when organizing an occasion (huge or small).
Additionally don’t neglect to leverage, discover the chance, and get inventive to drive greater affect by collaborating with different groups. I need to specific my heartfelt gratitude to everybody who’ve supported me via this journey.
There’s a lot data on the market each internally and externally about sustainability. Typically it’s arduous to know the place to begin, however that’s okay as a result of the Inexperienced Staff Community can assist you begin or proceed your sustainability journey. Whether or not that’s seeking to get entangled in fundraising or attending inside training periods we encourage staff to be curious, and their information about sustainability will develop from there.
For Cisco staff, the International Inexperienced Staff Community Inclusive Neighborhood encourages everybody to hitch a neighborhood group and begin getting concerned. We’d love to include new concepts, strategies, and actions to drive our environmental affect and efforts. If you happen to’re a Cisco worker, please be part of us!
Lastly, you too can keep up to date on Cisco’s sustainability objectives and packages for purchasers and companions and don’t neglect to cease by the Cisco Neighborhood kiosk and Sustainability Zones whenever you attend Cisco Reside occasions just like the one in Melbourne, Australia from November 11-14!
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