Claire Diaz Ortiz

In partnership with Marshall Goldsmith, the world's most recognized executive coach, the firm has built an exclusive curated network of executive coaches serving Fortune 500 companies and market-leading organizations.

Claire is the bestselling author of 9 books on leadership and marketing that have been translated into 11 languages, including One Minute Mentoring (Harper Collins 2017), co-authored with her mentor and legendary management guru, Ken Blanchard. Her most recent book was Social Media Success for Every Brand, also by Harper Collins. Her 10th book, Why Can't They Be Like Me?, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, is out in 2026.

As a scout, Claire wrote checks into fintech, consumer, marketplace, and web3 companies.

Kauffman Fellows is the premier leadership organization in innovation & capital formation, with graduates leading venture capital, government, corporate, university, and startup innovation efforts globally. More than 850 Fellows now lead more than 250 venture capital firms representing funds that invest billions into startups in more than 58 countries around the world.

Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm with offices in 27 major startup cities across 6 continents and more than $1.4B in AUM.

Claire has delivered keynote speeches, commencement speeches, and workshops on six continents (all her fingers remain crossed for McMurdo Station!).

Magma Partners is a seed stage venture capital fund in Latin America. As an investing partner, Claire started Brava, Magma's initiative to invest in female founders. As the only investing partner in LatAm from Silicon Valley, Claire loved nothing more twisting the arm of an international VC fund to enter LatAm for the first time as a co-investor in one of her awesome portfolio companies.

Claire co-founded Hope Runs, a non-profit organization based in Kenya that used running to empower AIDS orphans with the tools of personal health, social entrepreneurship, and education. Featured in Runner's World Magazine and other publications, Hope Runs was in operation from 2006 - 2019. One of Claire's books, also entitled Hope Runs, tells the story of the organization.

Claire was an early employee at Twitter, where she was first hired to lead corporate social innovation. In Claire's time at Twitter, she was called everything from “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” (Wired) and “Twitter’s Pontiff Recruitment Chief” (The Washington Post) to a “Force for Good” (Forbes) and one of the “Ten Most Generous in Social Media” (Fast Company). In her social innovation work, she envisioned, built, and directed all Twitter’s social good initiatives, including the Twitter for Nonprofits and Twitter Ads for Good programs. On the side of partnerships + media, she led influencer marketing strategies in several key verticals to on-boarded high-profile individuals to the platform, including the Pope and Warren Buffet.

Upon completion of an undergraduate and graduate degree at Stanford, Claire spent several years as a "wandering delinquent" (her father's words), working an impressively crappy online job that paid for her to travel to random countries. Best time of her life!