A computer monitor displaying the Outshift website by Cisco, featuring a dark themed homepage with a purple and blue gradient header, logo, navigation menu, and a large headline about Cisco's incubation engine.
A digital billboard on a city street showing the logo and slogan 'outshift by Cisco' and 'Build amazing' on a blue background. Two business cards are displayed on a gray surface: one with a colorful outshift logo and one with contact information for Vijay Pandey, SVP of Emerging Technology.
A digital brochure titled "Brand Manifesto" featuring a colorful abstract background with purple, blue, and green lines, and white text discussing technological innovation and Cisco technology.
Digital billboard with the text "Technology doesn’t just evolve. It transforms." and the logo "outshift by Cisco". Next to the billboard, a book cover titled "The Internet of Agents" by Vijay Pandey, Ph.D., features neon-colored abstract shapes and a black background.
A smartphone screen displays Cisco's Outshift website with a black background and text about driving emerging technologies. The top of the screen shows a time of 12:35 and battery icon.

Outshift

artnered with Cisco to launch Outshift, the company’s emerging-technology incubation platform.

Cisco needed to break from legacy perceptions and step into a new era of innovation.

Designed to attract next-generation talent and spotlight breakthrough ideas, Outshift is rooted in the idea of moving beyond incremental change toward true reinvention. Out shifting dated perceptions. Out performing the competition.

Out shining other AI solutions.

I led the naming, positioning, and brand system, culminating in a high-profile launch at Cisco Live, where the brand debuted on a global stage..

  • Naming

  • Messaging + Positioning

  • Employee Messaging

  • Logo Creation

  • Architecture

  • Activation