Executive leadership development · Learning experience design
I design the programs — and the places — where leaders learn.
Twenty years in leadership development, the last ten as a founding member of The Google School for Leaders.
About
I helped found The Google School for Leaders, Google's global executive development function, where I've built programs, partnerships, and learning environments that have reached more than 10,000 leaders worldwide. I led the space and experience strategy for The Schoolhouse, Google's first purpose-built learning campus, and took Google's management development public for the first time through a course now available in Grow with Google.
Before Google, I spent several years running my own consultancy, advising leaders at companies from Airbnb to Genentech — and before that, leading HR and Stores Learning & Development at Jamba Juice. I trained as a social worker and a cultural anthropologist, which still shapes how I think about people, culture, and change.
Work
Designing and facilitating development experiences for the most senior leaders at Google and beyond — translating complex leadership frameworks into programs people actually use, from flagship curricula to bespoke interventions.
I led space and experience strategy for The Schoolhouse — Google's first purpose-built learning campus — applying neuroaesthetics research to how a learning space looks, feels, sounds, and even smells.
Opened 2019 · 9,000 sq ft · four design awards
Built People Development's first social-impact initiative, extending the School's expertise to social innovators worldwide — and launched Google's first external management development program, from concept to market.
Experience
Founding member of GSL, Google's reimagined global executive development function — building the strategy, programs, learning environments, and social-impact infrastructure behind an institution reaching 10,000+ leaders.
Led learning innovation strategy across People Development — turning research in neuroaesthetics, behavioral science, and environmental psychology into practical program and space design.
Designed and facilitated programs for Google's senior leaders, laying the groundwork for what became The Google School for Leaders.
Boutique organizational development consultancy. Advised C-suite and CHRO leaders on executive development, change, talent, and culture across 15+ Fortune 500 organizations.
Senior people leader across talent and organizational effectiveness; previously Director of Stores Learning & Development.
Senior Manager of Training for Gap Outlet; earlier, performance consultant and instructional designer.
Consulting clients, 2009–2016
Airbnb · Blue Shield of California · Deloitte · Dolby · Electronic Arts · Gap Inc. · Genentech · Levi Strauss & Co. · Old Navy · Safeway · Shutterfly · Sur La Table · United Healthcare · Williams-Sonoma
Ideas
Google re:Work — Byline
How The Schoolhouse team applied research on the brain and the senses to the design of learning spaces.
Grow with Google — Course
Google's first external flagship management development program — now open to any people manager, anywhere.
Case study — 2021
The full story of Google's award-winning learning campus — also cited in a New York Times–bestselling book on neuroaesthetics.