Ep. 51 – Authentic Leadership With Khan Academy COO, Ginny Lee

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 224 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Leading a company requires a lot of physical and mental effort and relationship building. Ginny Lee, the COO of Khan Academy, shares her transitions from working for Intuit toÂ Khan AcademyÂ which is a non-profit organization that provides free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.Â As Ginny illustrates how it is running a big company, she touches on […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to Second in Command, brought to you by COO Alliance, where top-level
0:07.3	COOs share their insights, tactics, and strategies that made them the chief behind the chief. And now, here and now here's your host, Cameron Herald.
0:15.0	Jenny Lee joined the chief.
0:17.0	Jenny Lee joined the Con Academy in 2016 as President and Chief Operating Officer
0:27.4	after a year as CEO and residents at a private equity firm based in
0:31.1	San Francisco. Prior to that, Lee was part of
0:33.6	Intuit's leadership team for 17 years where she led the team of more than 900
0:37.7	employees. Lee learned a dual BA in Business Economics and
0:41.6	Organizational Behavior and Management from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
0:48.0	Khan Academy is a non-profit organization created to provide free
0:54.3	for anyone anywhere.
0:56.1	The organization produces micro lectures in the form of YouTube videos
0:59.9	as well as exercises and tools for educators.
1:02.7	All resources are available for free to anyone around the world.
1:05.8	And I was at a TED conference nine years ago
1:09.4	when I saw the founder of the Khan Academy, Saul, do a talk about it, and I've been enamored with the brand ever since.
1:15.6	But Ginny, I'm really excited to have you on the Second and Command Podcast.
1:18.4	Well, thank you for inviting me.
1:20.2	Well, you're welcome.
1:21.4	So how did you, first off, and I'm also enamored with your background,
1:26.4	your education, I couldn't spell Brown, let alone get accepted there. I was the dumb kid in
1:31.5	college, so the fact that you went to an Ivy League school and an
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