Jenny Dearborn

Jenny has been a Chief Learning Officer, Chief Talent Officer and Chief People Officer at global tech firms like SunMicrosystems / Oracle, Hewlett-Packard / Enterprise,SuccessFactors / SAP, Klaviyo and BTS.

• She’s written 3 best-selling books about data-analytics and workforce performance.

• Currently, Jenny is Chief People Strategy Officer at BTS where she supports internal People Operations and works with clients globally on a range of talent development and leadership projects.

• She’s an independent film producer, beekeeper, painter, competitive athlete and proudly neuro-diverse.Career Highlights

• Chief People Officer – Built function and prepared for IPO during hyper-growth at Klaviyo

• Chief Talent Officer – At SAP, lead talent transformation for 90,000 employees from on-premise software to cloud SaaS skills and capabilities

• Sales Leader – The Chief Learning Officer role is simultaneously customer facing, quota-carrying and reporting to Sales and an employee facing cost center that reports to HR. SumTotal Systems Jenny carried a $3M quota, Sun Microsystems she managed a $100M quota), SuccessFactors ($36M quota), HPE and SAP (revenue enabling)

• Board Director – 20+ years international private company Board Directorship at Lanark Niesen Partners (US), Beqom (Switzerland) and Plum (Canada)• Investor / Advisor – to over 30 HR Tech and Ed Tech companies and fund portfolios

• Executive Coach – Works with CXO clients to support their leadership development journey

• Founder – Investment and advisory firm, Actionable Analytics Group, LLC

• Learning design, development, delivery – deep content expertise in Leadership & Sales Enablement

• Author – Published best-selling business books, Data-Driven (2015), The Data-Driven Leader (2018) and The Insight-Driven Leader (2025)Select Awards & Recognition

• Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology – National Diversity Council

• Female Executive of the Year – Stevie Award for Women in Business

• Top 20 LGBT Global Executive Allies – Financial Times of London

• Executive Producer – Award-winning documentary film producer IMDB