Kayla Maynard

Kayla Maynard is a Regional Sales Manager at Splunk, a Cisco company, based in Nashville, Tennessee, where she has built a career spanning more than a decade in enterprise technology sales. Since joining Splunk in July 2022, Kayla has been recognized as a 2024 Club Winner, adding to a track record that includes prior roles as an Account Executive at Salesforce, an Enterprise Account Executive at Dell EMC, and an Enterprise Account Manager at ServiceSource. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Studies with a focus on Criminal Justice and Nonprofit Management from Middle Tennessee State University. Kayla attributes her success to her faith, a genuine willingness to learn and be coached, and a mindset of embracing being "the youngest and dumbest in the room," which she believes invites others to help lift her up.
Beyond her sales career, Kayla is deeply engaged in using technology and data to address real-world challenges, including maternal health disparities in underserved communities. She has spoken publicly about her own journey—becoming pregnant just before turning 18, leaving high school amid unstable housing, and ultimately building a career she loves while raising her daughter, who is now 17. Kayla has channeled that experience into advocacy, founding the nonprofit One Kind and participating in panels such as Belmont University's symposium on whole-person health empowered by AI and driven by compassion, where she joined healthcare leaders, technologists, and clinicians to discuss reducing maternal and infant morbidity.
Kayla views the sales landscape as increasingly shaped by uncertainty and change, noting a meaningful shift from technology-driven selling back toward relational selling, where being a trusted advisor matters more than ever. Her guiding career philosophy is that rejection is simply part of the game, and that every "no" brings her closer to a "yes"—a persistence she likens to a river cutting through rock, not through power but through sheer perseverance. She's candid that "it's only crazy until you do it," a mantra she offers to young women entering her industry. Above all, Kayla strives to be a strong role model for her daughter and holds a firm belief that women have a responsibility to lift each other up, both in their careers and in their communities.