Becoming CEO of Your Career

For decades, the deal was simple: give a company your loyalty, and it would manage your career. That deal is over. Layoffs arrive by email, AI is rewriting job descriptions in real time, and the org chart no longer tells you where you’re going.

Nicole McNamara has reinvented herself across hospitality, nonprofit leadership, Salesforce, and Google, and she’s learned that resilience alone won’t save you. What works is a new operating model. Every one of us is now an Enterprise of One. It’s time we ran like it.

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Nicole Wheeler McNamara
Head of AI GTM Power & Utilities, Google
Nicole McNamara has one of the more varied resumes in big tech: hospitality, gaming, non-profit leadership, entrepreneur, Salesforce Innovation and now AI at Google. That range isn’t a
collection of unrelated jobs, it’s the reason she’s good at what she does. Every industry teaches you to read a room differently, and Nicole has learned to translate between rooms that don’t naturally speak the same language, whether that’s a casino floor, a non-profit board, or a Fortune 500 executive team staring down a seismic technology shift. Read full profile…