As a senior executive on IBM’s Integration and Values Leadership Team, States led in the company-wide transformation — responsible for the reshaping of IBM’s skills development for IBM’s enterprise-wide 38,000+ sales force.

States serves as a Trustee for the International House, New York and as a Director for ScriptEd. She is a member of the Dean’s Executive Council and an Executive-in-Residence for the D’Amore- McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. States was inducted into the Women in Technology International, Women in Science and Technology Hall of Fame in 2014.