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    Ginny Clarke

    Former Director, Executive Recruiting/Holistic Leadership Strategist
    Google

    Dedicated to helping leaders create the conscious workplace for tomorrow, Ginny Clarke has advised at the highest levels of corporate America for decades. She is the former director of executive recruiting at Google, where she led the company’s diversity, non-tech recruiting and leadership internal mobility teams—finding and hiring senior leaders across the company. She also built a scaled internal mobility program for Google’s senior leaders to advance within the organization, and designed much of the infrastructure that supports the company's executive recruiting function today.

    Clarke draws on her unparalleled experience inside corporate C-suites and boardrooms helping thousands of executives up their game and elevate their careers to bring a unique, holistic approach to leadership that is essential now more than ever. Her Five Dimensions of Conscious Leadership encourage leaders to deepen their self-awareness, speak their truth, inspire love, expand their consciousness and activate mastery. A systems thinker who deconstructs processes and behaviors to carefully assess organizational and individual capability, she inspires and uplifts groups by helping them scale mobility opportunities for all, bring conscious awareness to both the workplace and life, and navigate the future of work. Clarke delivers “no-holds-barred” discussions on the root causes that lead to a lack of diversity in organizations, and provides the thoughtful, integrated solutions that anyone can use to effect change while transitioning into new era in the workplace.

    Prior to Google, Clarke was a partner at Spencer Stuart, the global executive search firm based in Chicago. Drawing upon her breadth and depth of experience, Clarke wrote Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work, a book that provides a framework for individuals to plot and assess their professional competencies and strategically navigate their careers. After the book was published, she ran her own executive search and talent management firm for three years before becoming a senior partner for executive search in the U.S. at Knightsbridge, a Canadian human capital solutions firm.

    She is now the CEO of Ginny Clarke, LLC, her own talent and leadership consulting business, as well as the host of Fifth Dimensional Leadership, a podcast for leaders, thinkers and future-makers covering topics like power, personal branding, self-awareness, networking, fear and career management. Clarke previously served as an entrepreneur in residence for HearstLab, advising the organization’s leaders on the future of work and how to approach areas such as culture, hiring and performance evaluation as the way we work continues to evolve.

    Clarke earned her BA in French and linguistics from the University of California at Davis, and her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School. She is the single mother of an adult son, Julian, who works in the entertainment industry.

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