Jenny Wood
Author, speaker, and former Google executive
Jenny Wood is an author and speaker who worked as an executive at Google. She wrote Wild Courage, a book about bold traits for building a career.
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About Jenny Wood
Jenny Wood is a New York Times bestselling author and speaker. She worked as an executive at Google, where she ran a large operations team, and she has also been a researcher at Harvard Business School. She founded Own Your Career, a career development program at Google that tens of thousands of people around the world have taken part in. Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur and Harvard Business Review have all published her articles. In Wild Courage, she describes nine traits, including being Obsessed, Shameless and Bossy, that go against standard career advice. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and two children.