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!

Author

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.

Melissa Santarcangelo

Talent Acquisition Leader, Executive Recruiting 

Member of Google Cloud's in-house executive recruiting team, focused primarily on sales, Cloud Customer Experience, GTM and strategy & operations leadership hiring. We hire the leaders who drive Google Cloud's mission to "Accelerate organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry."

Executive Recruiting Practice Leader, Google Cloud 

Manager, Google Cloud Leadership Recruiting

USAA

* Led all Executive Recruiting across USAA. Managed  team of Executive Recruiters, Researchers and Coordinators. 
* Led Board and Subsidiary Board Recruiting 
* Developed and implemented standardized executive assessment and best in-class interview processes and experience
* Managed all retained search relationships and contracts
* Executive and CEO Succession 
* Talent management, talent mapping, succession planning for internal executives

Director, Executive Recruiting and Board Search

Executive Recruiting Lead

University of California, San Diego

Directing the Recruiting efforts for the Advancement Team at UCSD

LPL Financial

Executive Recruiter

Recruitment Consultancy

Senior Technical Recruiter

Hudson

•	Continually exceeded set recruiting goals. In December 2006 achieved 220% of recruiting goals, which was a first in Hudson, NZ history.
•	Earned the Hudson, Top Contributor Award for Australasia: Combine consistently high billings with the highest level of customer satisfaction as well as contribution to the team and company - 2007.

I am a leader, an executive search professional and leadership coach that strives to illuminate opportunity, presence, and clarity in others. Member of Google Cloud’s in-house executive recruiting team, focused primarily on our Cloud Exec Recruiting Center of Excellence.

At Google Cloud, we are enabling the worlds biggest companies, their talented employees and their customers to digitally transform their organizations. The impact goes beyond our customers customers and extends to everyone - This is impact at scale! 

Prior to Google, I had the honor overseeing the Executive Recruiting function across all of USAA, the USAA Board and all Subsidiary USAA Boards. Leading a phenomenally talented team of Executive Recruiters, Research and Coordinators, and together we  supported the enterprise and Boards in finding, attracting and cultivating talent for USAA.

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