Monica Silva-Gutierrez

Business adviser, Care taker, Change agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Foodie, Idea generator, Parent, Project manager

I help the world’s leading organizations navigate complexity, catalyze change, and build resilience with calm and poise, so executive leaders can unify teams to advance their mission and empower the next generation. I grew up in a small border town in Texas, which taught me early on how to build a bridge between two seemingly opposite worlds – the world of my Mexican mother and the world of my white adopted father, the land that was America and the land that was Mexico. Though the leadership contexts have varied in my career, the work is always centered around creating unity in a rapidly growing, at times volatile and culturally conflicted, environment. Whether it was as a political appointee in the first Clinton administration at the US Dept. of Energy, as an Executive Director and Development Specialist at Change Congress and The Democracy Fund, or at the helm of my family business, the organization’s success required command and proficiency of change. I’ve worked with leaders at the highest levels to bring people together and design for operational excellence so teams can be productive and inspired in everyday action. Through my philanthropic work, in areas that have included environmental and social justice, girls’ education in India and Africa, and mindfulness in schools, I’ve mentored and guided leaders on how to bring both empathy and resolve to facilitate organizational transformation. Here at Google, I have been an outspoken voice for women and Latinx representation leading 24X7 Women in Tech. I co-founded the Latinas@ Google and sponsored our first summit where over 600 Latinas participated in a 3-day conference that featured Jacky Cruz from Orange is the New Black and labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta. I sit on our Latinx ERG board and seeded a program and organization for our Executive Latinx Leadership engagement and development. I have led strategy and operations for a global engineer and technical infrastructure team. I have been a Cultural Ambassador and leader in Change Management for Google serving our Product Areas, Developer Relations, and Google Infrastructure teams as well as other engineering and technical teams on a global scale. I am here to build bridges — to create cohesiveness in a culture that also values autonomy, to cultivate decisive action in a culture that thrives on collaboration and bottoms up ideation, to uphold experimentation but also create governance and boundaries. You can rely on me to be a calm, trusted and imaginative leader through any organizational transformation. Head of Strategy & Operations - People Development Lead strategy and operations for a team responsible for designing, implementing and providing support for the new performance reviews, ratings and development philosophy that will shape a more equitable Google company culture moving forward. Responsibilities include; guide and build team strategic narrative, mission and objective as GRAD and the team matures, aligning with GRAD-wide strategy narrative. Design a communications strategy and approach that enables consistent means to keep all stakeholders informed of our progress. Build team operational excellence as we deliver just in time designs. Run a launch cycle for our 1P tool for the portfolio of products our team is responsible for delivering. Lead strategy and operations for a team responsible for designing, implementing and providing support for the new performance reviews, ratings and development philosophy that will shape a more equitable Google company culture moving forward. Responsibilities include; guide and build team strategic narrative, mission and objective as GRAD and the team matures, aligning with GRAD-wide strategy narrative. Design a communications strategy and approach that enables consistent means to keep all stakeholders informed of our progress. Build team operational excellence as we deliver just in time designs. Run a launch cycle for our 1P tool for the portfolio of products our team is responsible for delivering. Skills: Leadership Development · Content Strategy · Process Improvement · Facilitation · Change Management · Senior Stakeholder Management · Asana · Product Development · Employee Benefits Design · Strategic Human Resource Planning · Strategic Planning

I'm passionate about helping people be great at what they love doing. I love finding ways to keep teams engaged motivated and thriving on all levels. I love hiking, yoga, cooking and thinking up new possibilities for connection.

What if we realized the secret to untapped human potential was love and kindness. What if how we treat one another was directly correlated to profit and business success. What if we all put people first. What would our world be.