About Jennifer Ybarra
Strategic Advisor, Futurist & Speaker helping leaders design and launch innovative initiatives that last —across products, programs, and people.
Jennifer bridges technology, education, and civil society, helping leaders translate complex ideas into solutions people can actually use. Drawing on two decades across FAANG and mission-driven organizations, she advises teams on strategy, adoption, and foresight, ensuring innovation not only scales, but strengthens human connection.
Strategist, Technologist, Advocate
Jennifer has worked as a strategist helping leaders navigate complexity, a technologist bridging emerging tech with real-world adoption, and an advocate building human-first solutions. Across every role, she’s seen the same pattern: some launches succeeded where others stalled. The difference isn’t the technology, budget, or timeline; it was whether people understood, trusted, and felt equipped to make the change their own. That insight continues to shape her approach today in understanding what people need, designing solutions that deliver, and building the bridges to make it happen.
The Work Today
Today, Jennifer helps leaders design and launch initiatives people actually adopt. From top FAANG companies to the civil sector, she’s built initiatives that scaled from pilots to global movements and advises on AI implementation, next-generation readiness, and strategies for sustainable adoption. She works from vision to scale, always through the lens of human-centered innovation and foresight.
Jennifer’s Story
Jennifer’s career has been a choose-your-own-adventure; each role revealing patterns that led her deeper into understanding what makes innovation last. At Nike, she partnered with Malcolm Gladwell & teams pioneering early wearable tech, translating\ncomplex ideas into stories people understood. At LeapFrog, she built one of the first parent/child ed-tech platforms connecting six million families. At Facebook, she led social impact initiatives scaling to billions. Each time, the same pattern emerged: innovation lasts when people are understood, connected, and capable.