Jenny Wood

Jenny Wood is an unstoppable confidence booster dedicated to helping people make their impossible dreams likely. A former Google leader who grew from entry-level employee to executive in her 18-year tenure, she held COO roles across various divisions of Google and led global teams that spanned Americas, Asia, and Europe. In her most recent role, Jenny ran an Operations team at Google that sat between Sales and Engineering and helped drive billions in annual revenue. Having spent over a decade in Google’s sales organization, Jenny has also partnered with some of Google’s largest clients on their marketing and analytics strategies. Despite Jenny never holding an official HR or People Operations role at Google, she founded what became one of the company's largest career programs in its 26-year history: Own Your Career. Jenny has coached tens of thousands of Google employees and executives in almost 100 countries on leadership, influence, stakeholder management, change management, and employee engagement.  Jenny is the author of the upcoming book, WILD COURAGE: Go After What You Want and Get It, which Penguin Random House has slated as one of their biggest professional development releases of 2025. In the book and in her talks, Jenny shatters conventional wisdom about achieving your goals. She gives you permission to ditch your fear and chase after what you want, unapologetically.   Jenny’s writing has been featured in Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc., and Forbes. She has spoken at numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Google, YouTube, Capital One, Royal Caribbean, Indeed, L.L. Bean, State Farm, CVS, Johnson & Johnson, TurboTax, and QuickBooks.