About
Jenny Dearborn, MEd, MBA
Recognized as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech for five consecutive years, Jenny is a thought leader in HR, HCM, the Future of Work, and data analytics. Currently the Chief People Strategy Officer at BTS, Jenny supports internal People Operations and works with clients globally on a range of talent development and leadership projects.
Her first book, Data Driven, published by Wiley, debuted at #1 on Amazon’s New Business Releases and was selected as one of the top 10 for “What Corporate America is Reading” out of 11,000 business books published in 2015. Her next book, The Data Driven Leader, followed in 2017 and also charted as a national best-selling business book. She has been a contributor for USA Today, Forbes, Huffington Post and Fast Company. Jenny’s next book, The Insight-Driven Leader, will be released in June 2025.
Jenny was previously Chief People Officer at Klaviyo, Chief Talent Officer at SAP, and a C-level executive at SuccessFactors, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard, leading award-winning teams that drove measurable business impact.
A champion of female mentorship and corporate community involvement, Jenny has been recognized with multiple honors including the Stevie Award for Female Business Executive of the Year, Athena Leadership Award, and Financial Times Top 20 Global Executive LGBT Allies. She co-founded the Silicon Valley Apprenticeship Consortium, and has served on the Harvard Business Review Advisory Board, the University of California, Berkeley, College of Letters & Sciences Advisory Board, and led the Stanford Woman in Business at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She has is a former board member of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Association for Talent Development, the leading organization for talent professionals globally, and has served on the Advisory Boards of 30+ ed-tech, HR-tech, health-tech and work-tech companies.
Jenny Dearborn was a member of the Forbes San Francisco Business Council and currently serves as an Independent Director on the boards of several companies. A movie producer, she produced the sports documentary film Until the Wheels Come Off, which debuted at the 2021 Napa Valley Film Festival, was purchased by AppleTV, and won a bronze Telly Award for sports documentary. It is now available on Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms. She is currently a producer on the award-winning film Lilly starring Patricia Clarkson, based on the life of women’s equal pay pioneer Lilly Ledbetter, and two other films now in production.