ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jenny Dearborn is the author of the 2015 business best-seller Data Driven: How Performance Analytics Delivers Extraordinary Sales Results. She is recognized as one of the fifty most powerful women in technology and is an industry thought leader and authority on applying data and analytics to workforce development and human capital transformation. At SAP, the world’s largest business software company, she is responsible for learning, development, talent management, leadership, succession management, and organization development for the approximately 90,000 SAP employees worldwide.

Dearborn is a frequent contributor to the mainstream business press and is an internationally sought-after keynote speaker. She is a graduate of American River College, the University of California–Berkeley, Stanford University, and San Jose State University and sits on several boards of directors.

She lives with her family in Palo Alto, California, and in Montecito, California. She can be reached at

@DearbornJenny

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdearborn/

David Swanson has more than thirty years of human resource management experience. He was most recently executive vice president of human resources for SAP SuccessFactors, partnering with the company’s sales organization to showcase how SAP is using SAP HR. Prior to that, he served as chief human resources officer for SAP North America and global head of HR for SAP’s products and innovation organization, where he delivered the people ...

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