Jenny Wood

Penguin Random House

Author of "Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It", a business non-fiction book about how to chase what you want. And achieve it!

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Harvard Business Review

Write leadership, teamwork, and career pieces for Harvard Business Review.

Writer

Google

Lead large team across North and South America that helps F500 companies implement, optimize, and troubleshoot media campaigns.

Director, Americas Media Operations, Technical Service Managers

Founder of one of Google's largest and fastest-growing Career Development initiative in 25 years. We have 97% positive feedback with tens of thousands of people participating in the program. 

Our goal is to help Googlers increase their influence and impact in their current role and/or land their next role at Google. Be bold, be curious, be you.

Founder, Google's Own Your Career Program

Lead team of 25 full-time Googlers across 14 global cities to provide outstanding customer service on mobile apps troubleshooting issues. Influence stakeholders to make products easier to sell and improve sales teams' ability to sell them. Achieve metrics like turnaround time and customer satisfaction scores. Build awesome team culture and mentor women and other underrepresented groups. Also accountable for 18 offshore vendors.

Head of Global Customer Care, Mobile Apps

Head of Regional Customer Care, US West Coast

Lead 8-person business analyst team for Telecom industry in Google's sales & marketing organization. Advise senior executives at Fortune 500 companies on consumer and market data, insights, marketing strategy, and digital measurement & attribution. Responsibilities across brand and performance marketing, including omni-channel impact, customer segmentation, and brand-building.

Focus on D&I initiatives including equity, promotion diversity, and community inclusion.

Head of Analytics & Insights, Telecom Industry

Strategy and Operations Manager

Senior Analytical Lead

Account Strategist

Lambda Educational Technologies

Quality Assurance Manager

Harvard Business School

Research Associate

Author. Speaker. Founder, Google’s Own Your Career Program. Google Executive, America's Media Operations.

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18 years ago, I was an anxious, entry-level employee at Google. 

Then I chased my future-husband off the subway and gave him my number.

That moment made me realize the life I want won’t just happen to me. 

I have to chase it. And so do you! 

That mentality led me to become an executive at Google running a large operations team that helps drive tens of billions in revenue a year. I also founded Own Your Career, a large career development initiative at Google with tens of thousands of people benefitting.

After climbing the ranks from entry-level to executive, I realize something. What if the traits you need to get ahead are the exact opposite of what you’ve been told? To be successful you need to be:

Weird
Selfish
Shameless
Obsessed
Nosy
Manipulative
Brutal
Reckless
Bossy

And that takes courage. Wild amounts of it.

So I wrote a book! It’s called, WILD COURAGE: Go After What You Want and Get It, and it became an instant New York Times bestseller. 😮

I’m so excited for you to order it at itsjennywood.com/book and be more bold, persuasive, and successful. 

Follow me for advice to achieve your goals and get what you want. Unapologetically. 

The opinions I state on LinkedIn and other public forums are my own, not those of any past or present company.

Boulder JCC

Create and deliver Jewish content to parents and families in the Boulder community with a focus on creating connections and deepening relationships between families and the greater Jewish community.

Jewish Education Specialist

Alchemer

Senior Manager, Head of Customer Onboarding & Adoption (Learning & Development)

Onboarding Manager

Kantar

Oversaw multiple $750K+ strategy and insights projects for F500 companies focused on CX, technology, UX, food, and CPG.
Built processes to boost recurring revenue within our annual subscription business.
Identified future growth opportunities by analyzing customer segments; influenced stakeholders to create different offerings by segment (e.g. needs of high value vs low value customers). 
Collaborated across departments to identify solution gaps by analyzing client feedback, market trends, and write GTM plans to publicize expertise.
Experienced in virtual and in-person workshop facilitation, coaching / mentoring, and stakeholder management training. Co-Founder of company Inclusion & Diversity Steering Committee.

Director Consulting Services & Global Knowledge Management

Kantar Consulting

Managed 3 reports; defined KPIs and led career conversations.
Created, trained, and managed global team of 12 champions to lead client workshops on leadership and experience design.
Optimized knowledge management platform UX for global consulting and marketing firm.
Partnered with Global Practice Area Leads to expand next-gen offerings for business strategy and user insights projects. 
Published, presented, and created GTM plan for thought leadership: Insights 2020, Purpose 2020, and the Initiative for Real Growth.

Engagement Manager

Managed multiple concurrent projects using design-thinking, agile methodologies, and PM tools (e.g. Asana, Excel, Google Suite).
Wrote 5 interview guides for Technology clients to incorporate qualitative data into client deliverables and inform future offerings.

Senior Consultant

Developed change management program for actor payments on national TV commercials; industry adoption to save $25M.
Designed human capital management initiative and communications plan to implement new payment platform.
Developed Reebok & Crossfit brand awareness and persona survey.

Summer Senior Consultant

University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Project for LAN Airlines: Identified $162M of incremental revenue potential by analyzing segmentation strategy, market trends, and competition in Colombian and Chilean markets. Designed survey sent to 30k customers; quantitative and qualitative results informed recommendations on how to improve LAN routing and strategic positioning.

MBA Student Consultant

B'nai Jeshurun

Developed and executed system to track and analyze membership recruitment, involvement, and attrition: increased department efficiency and saved 60 hours monthly. Co-managed membership team responsible for dues revenue by optimizing dues rates across income categories. Initiated redesign of New Member Orientation Program, expanding member participation by 17% YoY. Negotiated personalized membership dues for ~400 families; customized payment schedules, retained 8% of dues.

Membership, Partnership, and Marketing Specialist

University of Maryland

Supervised Engagement Associate and co‑developed tiered outreach strategy. Created underclassmen marketing internship role, defined duties and nimbly adjusted responsibilities based on evolving team needs; internship idea adopted by five other departments. Identified low‑involvement student populations and launched four leadership boards to create peer networks; boards grew 2x 2010 to 2012 and received increased funding.

Senior Engagement Associate

Management consultant experienced in customer onboarding, leadership development, strategy & insights, and workshop facilitation. Industry experience across Education, Non-profit, Technology, Wellness, and Hospitality. Passionate about team and culture building, and founder of DEIB Council. MBA from University of Michigan, BA in psychology from Northwestern University.

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