Sally Thornton Biography

Sally Thornton is the CEO of Forshay, a company that focuses on helping people perform their best job through executive recruiting, temporary expertise, and team optimization through more inclusion, diversity, and belonging. She is a pioneer in the field of how to flourish in the future of work. In 2015, Forshay was ranked #290 on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list; in 2019, it was included again at the barely-visible #3377. Thornton co-founded and served as CEO of Flexperience before creating Forshay. The San Francisco Business Times named Flexperience one of the "Top 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies" in 2010 as a result of the company's growth under her direction. A frequent keynote speaker on topics like the future of work, women in leadership, the science of work-life balance, using design thinking to improve work, maximizing the value of a multigenerational and diverse workforce, and talent recruitment and engagement strategies, Thornton has participated in two TEDx talks. Among many other media outlets, Thornton has been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Forbes, YahooFinance, Huffington Post, KQED radio, NBC11 News, and ABC7 News. Based on her work with Stanford University's Redesigning and Redefining Work project, Thornton founded WorkLabAccelerator in 2015, a design thinking community of action dedicated to improving the workplace. She is dedicated to developing innovative workplace policies and procedures that are in line with the needs of the modern workforce so that businesses may more effectively utilize talent for all parties' success. WorkLab develops, tests, and scales experiments to #MakeWorkBetter using design thinking, lean start-up, and storytelling techniques. Thornton often gives lectures at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. She was a member of the Stanford Clayman Institute for Gender Research's Advisory Council for six years, which is the academic affiliate of LeanIn.org.

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