Ginny Clarke is an expert on career management, executive recruiting, diversity, inclusion, cultural competency and talent management. Her audiences are professionals and executives seeking to enhance their careers. A thought leader and practitioner of diversity recruitment and retention, Ginny frequently consults with global corporations. She offers provocative remedies that fly in the face of convention for organizations learning how to embrace diversity and multiculturalism to optimally leverage their global workforce.
After college, Ginny recruited for the University of California, her alma mater. She went on to earn her MBA and started a career in banking. After a short stint, she spent the next 10 years in the institutional real estate business with Jones Lang LaSalle and Prudential Real Estate Investors. Her responsibilities included asset management, portfolio management, capital raising and client servicing.
Most recently, Ginny was a partner at the global executive search firm, Spencer Stuart. She worked in the firm’s financial services and financial officer practices. Her search clients included financial and professional services firms such as insurance companies, banks and real estate companies. For nearly twelve years, she successfully recruited professionals in a variety of senior-level functions, including finance, general management, human resources and marketing. She co-founded and led Spencer Stuart’s global Diversity Practice. In her leadership of the Diversity Practice, Ginny worked with global clients to customize diversity recruitment and retention strategies. She also oversaw the firm’s efforts to provide clients with diverse slates of candidates by embedding diversity and inclusion into the firm’s culture and infrastructure.
A dynamic, charismatic and experienced presenter, Ginny has produced and hosted a local television talk show called “Choices” and has trained with the former producer of “The Phil Donahue Show.” She is a sought-after speaker and panelist for professional, academic and other organizations’ conferences and events. She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise and Working Woman and is the author of the forthcoming book called Career Mapping.
Ginny received her Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Linguistics from the University of California at Davis and an MBA in accounting and finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She is a member of the boards of Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW) in Birmingham, Alabama and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Ginny is a single mother of a wonderful teenaged son.
Co-author Echo Montgomery Garrett is a journalist with 25 years’ experience and author of the well-reviewed book How To Make a Buck and Still Be a Decent Human Being: A Week with Rick Rose at Dataflex (HarperBusiness, 1993) and ghost writer of Tales From the Top: Ten Crucial Questions from the World’s #1 Executive Coach (Nelson Business, Oct. 2005; Piatkus, Nov. 2005—U.K. only).
Most recently she served as editor-in-chief of Atlanta Woman magazine. A former contributing writer to Money, Business Week, Management Review and Investor’s Business Daily, and The Atlanta Business Chronicle, Echo has been published in more than 75 national magazines, newspapers and websites including INC. Magazine, The New York Times, Chief Executive, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, and abcnews.com. She has been interviewed on Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, NY-1 and has done more than 50 radio interviews supporting book projects and magazine articles.
