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Rachel Ernst

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Founder at AccelHERate
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Rachel is a seasoned HR leader and womens leadership coach with over 20 years of experience at companies like Udemy, where she led the global transformation of their performance program. She specializes in employee engagement and performance management. Rachel earned her MBA at the Brandeis School of Business and Economics.

Rachel is passionate about creating equity for women in senior leadership. A formative experience for her was attending a womens retreat with authors she admires, which influenced her professional focus. She now channels this passion into her business, providing coaching and running leadership programs to help women advance their careers authentically.

After a long corporate HR career, she founded AccelHERate, a coaching and consulting business dedicated entirely to accelerating the careers of women leaders.

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Founder
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Women in Leadership
Founded AccelHERate to coach and run leadership programs for women. She is a frequent podcast guest and speaker on the topic of advancing women into senior roles.
Performance Management
A core area of her professional expertise, having redesigned the performance framework at Udemy and written about the topic in articles for Forbes.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Founder
AccelHERate
1-2019
Member
Forbes
4-2023 - 3-2024
Vice President, Employee Experience
Udemy
2-2023 - 4-2023
Sr Director, Employee Experience
Udemy
7-2021 - 2-2023
Sr. Director, People Programs
Udemy
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Education
MBA
Brandeis School of Business and Economics
BA
University of California, Davis
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