Lisa Atherfold

Lisa Atherfold

Lisa Atherfold is director of communications EMEAR at Cisco. During her 10 years at Cisco Lisa Atherfold has held a number of communications roles; from leading the European public relations team to executive communications for the EMEAR president. Before that, she worked at a technology public relations agency, Brodeur, and was co-founder of a UK city lifestyle and culture magazine.

“They say that a good rider hears their horse speak, but a great rider hears them whisper.”

Dressage! Yes, the sport where horses prance around in circles. I love Eddie Izzard’s take on it: “Highly trained riders, highly trained horses: it’s brilliant – but completely useless…unless you want to park your horse in a cupboard!”

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