Jenny Blake
Career and business author
Jenny Blake writes, speaks and hosts podcasts about career change and smarter ways of working. She wrote Pivot and co-created Google's Career Guru coaching program.
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Born in San Francisco, California, United States
About Jenny Blake
Jenny Blake started out in Silicon Valley, joining a political polling startup as its first hire. She then spent five years at Google in training and career development, where she co-created the Career Guru program. In 2011 she moved to New York City to start her own business. Her book Life After College grew out of a website she began in 2005 and was published in 2011. Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One followed in 2016 and received an Axiom award in the careers category for business books. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, was published in March 2022. She hosts two podcasts, Free Time and Pivot with Jenny Blake, which together have more than two million downloads. She lives in New York City with her husband and their German shepherd.