Jenny Blake

Jenny Blake is an author and podcaster who runs a media and licensing company. She loves helping entrepreneurs and organizations move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third award-winning book is Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business (Ideapress, March 2022).

Jenny also wrote the award-winning book Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, 2016) and co-created Google’s acclaimed Career Guru coaching program.

She hosts two podcasts with over 1.5 million downloads combined: Free Time with Jenny Blake for heart-based business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake for navigating change. CNBC listed Pivot among 6 podcasts to make you smarter about your career, and Entrepreneur named one of the top 20 female-hosted business podcasts.

Jenny started her first blog, Life After College, in 2005, which she published as book in 2011 with Running Press. After two years as the first employee at Polimetrix, a political polling start-up in Silicon Valley later acquired by YouGov, followed by five years at Google in training and career development, she moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. In addition to keynote speaking, she runs Train-the-Trainer and licensing programs to help innovative organizations like Google, Microsoft, and CHANEL incorporate the Pivot Method and Free Time Framework into their global career development and manager training programs.

Jenny loves yoga and buys too many books. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, a contemporary artist, and their "angel in fur coat" German shepherd. You can find her and learn more at PivotMethod.com and ItsFreeTime.com.