With over 26 years of sales, business development, and marketing leadership experiences in both small start-ups and large corporations, the founder of Blue Glass Company (www.blueglasscompany.com), Renee Patton, has managed through adversity and diversity to help organizations realize technology solutions that drive business outcomes. To facilitate change, she has specifically focused on developing people and teams to drive results, knowing that creating a positive and collaborative culture begins with individuals, their strengths, passions, and motivations. Her business and executive leadership experience, coupled with her professional coaching capabilities, make her uniquely suited to take people to the next level in their development, and help organizations be more successful. RenŽe has a passion for learning, having spent 24 years in education, as a business leader, a high school English and French teacher, and a board trustee where she learned firsthand how a district organization runs and serves the community. She loves helping people learn about themselves, discovering their unique talents and the wisdom within them, that will support them throughout life. Prior to joining Cisco, she ran her own marketing consulting firm for seven years, working with agility to develop strategy and customize sales programs and projects to meet client needs. After teaching, she spent seven years at Siemens serving as the key global marketing interface with Munich and managing national sales programs. RenŽe later joined Cisco, working in various roles from field marketing and national programs to global industry strategy and transformational change management. She is excited about the future and the trends driving massive shifts in how always-connected people are working today. RenŽe is particularly interested in the role of culture in organizations and using coaching to help leaders, teams, and companies to succeed. She uses an integral coaching methodology to develop the whole person, enabling people to create changes that will last a lifetime. RenŽe is a LionsÕ Club Member, a mentor for the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, a certified integral coach, and involved in her local community. She holds a B.A. in English with a minor in French from Santa Clara University, an M.A. in Education from Stanford University, and an Integral Coaching Certification through New Ventures West.