Title Futurist & Chief Instigator Company Bio Ayelet helps people thrive. She is a global strategist having worked in hi-tech for over a decade around the world, she understands the business problems leaders face and helps them address it. She is a thought leader on the future of business. Today Ayelet is at the forefront of fixing what’s broken in business and transforming organizations. Her book, Business Common Sense, will be published in 2015 and is a handbook for leaders wanting to build successful 21st century organizations. At Simplifying Work, she is focused on pioneering more people-centered ways to work that leverage new ways to connect, collaborate, partner and innovate. By accelerating connected networks and being a thought leader around innovation and collaboration, Ayelet brings people and ideas together. For more than a decade, Ayelet climbed the corporate ladder at tech giant, Cisco Systems where she held a number of global, executive roles focused on growth strategy, led strategy and competitive positioning. She was the chief strategist for Cisco Canada and helped propel Canada from the sixth to the second largest revenue generating country for Cisco at nearly $2B. During her Cisco tenure she was on the executive team of Emerging Markets and IT, masterminding global sales, mobile health, organizational transformation, web enablement and go-to-market strategies.