Ginny Clarke

Ginny is the founder of Talent Optimization Partners, LLC, a talent and career management firm offering live and web-enabled career management programs and services for. She is also the author of "Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work" released in August 2011.

Prior to forming her own firm in 2009, Ginny was a partner at Spencer Stuart, a global executive search firm where she co-founded and led Spencer Stuart’s Diversity Practice, working with global clients to customize diversity recruitment and employee retention strategies. Ginny spent the early part of her career in banking and commercial real estate with Jones Lang LaSalle and Prudential Real Estate Investors.

Ginny earned her BA in French and Linguistics from the University of California at Davis, and her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School.