Lecturer
Persuasive Communication & Interpersonal Dynamics
About
Janine Lee has been a lecturer in the Berkeley Haas Evening Weekend MBA program since 2014. As a Certified Executive Coach, Lee has also lectured at Berkeley Executive Education and the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business MBA Program. Read More
Lee has almost 20 years of experience in learning and development (L&D), diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), organizational development, program management, and change management at Fortune 500 companies. Lee has worked across a variety of industries, including academia, technology, energy, nonprofit, and entrepreneurship sectors. As a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Lee has led large-scale, 100-person teams in continuous improvement and transformation efforts. She currently works at Google as the Global Head of Learning & Development, delivering learning experiences for 30k learners.
Lee received her MBA from Berkeley Haas and her EdD with an emphasis in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California. Her dissertation research focused on workplace belonging for women of color in technology. She has won dozens of leadership awards, including the Maybelline Empowerment through Education Award, which was featured in People magazine.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Leadership
- DEI
- Belonging
- Communications
- Leading change
- Janine Lee. Breaking Down Barriers to Belonging for Women of Color in Tech (opens in a new tab). Harvard Business Review. 2024
- Janine Lee. Unstoppable: Rise of Female Global Leaders (opens in a new tab). AMA and Penn Crown Publishing. 2024
- Janine Lee. The Basics of Belonging (opens in a new tab). California Management Review. 2023
At Haas since 2014
- 2014 – Present, Lecturer, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
- 2023 – Present, Global Head of Learning & Development, Google
- 2021-2023, Global Learning & Development Strategy & Operations Lead, Google
- 2020-2021, Professional & Organizational Development Global Manager, Google
- 2017-2020, Business Information and Technology Solutions Global Manager, Google
- 2018-2020, Head of Online Learning & Student Experiences, CTO and Digital Transformation Programs, UC Berkeley Executive Education
- 2019-2020, Adjunct Professor, Santa Clara Leavey School of Business
- 2007-2017, Senior Manager, Process Excellence, Training, and Communications, Pacific Gas & Electric Company
- Capture the Dream, Inc. (2006-Present) Founding Board Member
- Asian Women Coaching Collective (2022-Present) Member
- Association of Talent Development (2023-Present) Member
- Club 6 Member for Teaching Excellence for consecutive semesters (2015-Present)
- Gold Excellence: Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation Award – Brandon Hall Group (2022)
- Google ‘Grow our Leaders’ Awards (2022)
- Jefferson Awards for Public Service from President Barack Obama – The White House (2013)
- Presidents Diversity Champion Award Winner – Pacific Gas & Electric Company (2011)
- Local Hero Award – Bank of America (2008)
- Women of Worth Finalist – L’Oreal Paris (2008)
- Mayoral Certificate of Honor – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (2007)
- Maybelline Empowerment Through Education Award – Maybelline NY (2007)
- Oakland Mayoral Proclamation declaring “Janine Lee Day” – Oakland Mayor’s Office (2007)
- Leadership Communications
- Seminar in International Business (SIB), South Africa