Jennie Rogerson

Jennie Rogerson is Global Head of People at Canva, a free online visual communication and collaboration platform with a mission to empower the whole world to design. Since launching in 2013, Canva’s global community has grown to over 125 million monthly users in more than 190 countries and has created a total of more than 15 billion designs. In the last couple of years, as millions of people around the world embraced a hybrid way of working, Canva experienced its biggest period of hypergrowth yet and continues to go from strength to strength thanks to a global team of 3,500 people. Jennie joined Canva in 2019 as the first person in Leadership Operations for Co-founders, and CEO and COO: Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht. Similar to a Chief of Staff role, Jennie wore many hats from strategic partner, cat herder, and dot connector, to the driver of many fun and interesting initiatives including Canva's Future of Work post-COVID approach to flexible work, Celebration of Diversity strategy, the Co-founders’ pledge to give a 30% stake of Canva to the Canva Foundation and creating Canva's Leadership Operations and Operations Business Partnering teams (currently 41 people around the world!). Today, Jennie leads the People Group at Canva where she oversees a global team of 400 people who come together to dream up and create Canva’s unique team experience from recruitment to alumni and everything in between. Prior to Canva, Jennie ran the operations at Order Ahead platform, Hey You.

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