Founder and CEO
Ginny Clarke, LLC
Ginny Clarke is the founder and CEO of Ginny Clarke, LLC, a talent and leadership consulting business. She is also an active keynote speaker and podcast host of Fifth Dimensional Leadership, a forum for leaders, thinkers and future-makers dedicated to creating the conscious workplace of tomorrow.
Clarke was most recently director, executive recruiting at Google, where, for four years, she led the diversity, non-tech recruiting and the leadership internal mobility teams. Her team of North American recruiters found and hired senior leaders (directors and above) for finance, sales, marketing and other G&A functions across Google.
Before Google, she was a partner at Spencer Stuart, the global executive search firm, based in Chicago. For 12 years, she worked in the firm’s financial services and financial officer practices and co-founded and led Spencer Stuart’s Global Diversity Practice. She left Spencer Stuart to write a book titled “Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work,” which was published in 2011. The book provides a framework that empowers individuals to plot and assess their professional competencies and strategically navigate their careers.
After the book was published, Clarke 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.
Clarke started her career in banking at First National Bank of Chicago (now Chase). After a short stint, she spent several years in the real estate investment management business with Jones Lang LaSalle and Prudential Real Estate Investors. Her responsibilities included asset management, portfolio management, capital raising and client servicing.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts in French and linguistics from the University of California at Davis and her master’s in business administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School.
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