Claire Díaz-Ortiz is an executive coach and celebrated leadership expert who was an early employee at Twitter. Wired magazine called her "The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter" and Claire was named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company.
Claire's executive coaching clients come primarily from a range of technology backgrounds, including public tech companies like Meta, private startups, and venture capital firms. Clients say that Claire has a deep ability to identify the key roadblocks in their path and work with them to make change over time. Claire is candid and direct and has a passion for value of resilient leadership in the face of rapid technological transformation.
As an author, Claire has published 10 books that have been translated into 12 languages, including One Minute Mentoring (with her mentor, legendary management guru Ken Blanchard), Twitter for Good, and Why Can't They Be Like Me?, a book on executive coaching in technology, written with Marshall Goldsmith, the world's #1 executive coach.
Claire has been called everything from “Twitter’s Pontiff Recruitment Chief” (The Washington Post) and a “Force for Good” (Forbes) to one of the “Ten Most Generous in Social Media” (Fast Company) and even, entertainingly, “a globe-trotting, multi-hyphenate polymath” (TechCrunch). She was recently named to the Thinkers 50 Radar List of emerging management thinkers, recognizing her commitment to leadership excellence. As a venture capitalist, Claire was a scout for Kleiner Perkins, a venture partner at Antler, a partner at a seed fund, and a Kauffman Fellow. Prior to her time as a venture capitalist, Claire led corporate social innovation at Twitter and started a non-profit organization in Kenya as a social entrepreneur with The Skoll Foundation.
Claire holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanford and Oxford and has appeared often in media like CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Fortune, Forbes, Wired and others.