Biography

Martin Gonzalez is the Global Organization Development Lead for Google’s Compute Business (think Chrome, Android, Pixel, Nest, Fitbit, AI/Machine Learning/Quantum Computing research groups). He works with Google’s senior leaders to shape their team’s culture, grow their people and build cool things that matter. He’s part of the faculty of the Google School for Leaders and has been a frequent guest lecturer at MBA programs at INSEAD, Stanford, Wharton and London Business School.

He is also the creator of Google for Startup’s PeopleLab, an effort to take what Google has learned about developing people and culture to startups around the world. He has run leadership courses and mentored thousands of tech startup founders, from seed stage to unicorn, across more than 40 countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Martin holds two master’s degrees in leadership studies and behavioral science from Columbia University and the London School of Economics. He’s lived and worked in New York, Jakarta, Singapore, Taipei and Manila, where he
is originally from. Today, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three kids.