Don’t miss Skydio on Dawn of Drones this week, Wednesday August 3 at 11:00 AM EST! Stream below:
Join Dawn and her special guest from Skydio, Anna Wiesenthal-Birch, the company’s VP of People Operations! Skydio is our sponsor-of-the-month for August, which focuses on the theme of “Developing Industry Leaders.” Skydio has made itself a strong reputation as a leading manufacturer of autonomous and cyber-secure American made drones. But Skydio is also leading the way on developing industry leaders, both within the company and external to it. Listen in as Dawn and Anna discuss the company’s focus on developing the diverse workforce of tomorrow, the leaders our industry needs!of tomorrow, the leaders our industry needs!
Anna Wiesenthal-Birch is a seasoned strategist and people operations executive. Prior to Skydio, Anna spent five years as the Chief of Staff of Cisco’s Security Business Group, a multi-billion dollar business where she was responsible for driving a high performing executive team, transformation initiatives, acquisition / integration and communications. One of Anna’s top initiatives was to drive radical clarity and alignment across the 5,000 Security employees as they transformed their business. Anna is known for hand-crafting approaches to help guide teams of all sizes to achieve radical clarity. She takes a creative and thoughtful approach based on the uniqueness of each team she engages.
When Anna is not busy helping build a high performing team you can find her adventuring with her four year old and one year old.
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