"Training With Empathy"

The first ever Chief Heart Officer. After nearly 20 years at numerous advertising agencies building brands for Fortune 50 companies, Claude found her home and true calling at VaynerX.

Her success guiding client relationships, global brand strategies, operations, and management is driven by an abiding passion for creating spaces in which people can thrive.

How do you build the best human empire of all time? With heart.

Kim Scott is co-founder of an executive education company and workplace comedy series based on her New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling book, Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

 

Previously, Kim led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online Sales and Operations at Google and then joined Apple to develop and teach a leadership seminar. Kim has been a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and several other tech companies.

Becky is the Head of People Development for the US and Canada at Uber. She brings years of experience from teaching, working in small companies, and building her own startup to her work.

Becky has led both individual and team transformations at small and large-scale organizations and is guided by the mission of building a more inquisitive and inclusive workplace.

Chris Ronzio is the founder and CEO of Trainual, the host of the Process Makes Perfect podcast, author of 100 Hacks to Improve Your Business, husband and father of two.

After more than 2 decades of entrepreneurial success, Chris has become one of the top voices in small business leadership and growth. He has personally helped scale hundreds of companies across the country and is an expert at people-centric systems design.

Neuroscience-based leadership development facilitator, Amy Posey, helps leaders at all levels using science and performance research in her practical approach to learning and development.

She is the founder and CEO of SUPER*MEGA*BOSS, a manager training company that creates short videos and in-person sessions to make better bosses. She is also the co-author of Wild Success—7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn From Extreme Adventures.

Michael Ventura is the CEO and founder of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that has worked with some of the world's most iconic brands and organizations; including Adobe, Delta Airlines, Google, Goldman Sachs, Nike, The TED Conference, and The Obama Administration.

Michael has served as a board member and adviser to a variety of organizations including Behance, The Burning Man Project, The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the United Nations’ Tribal Link Foundation.

From assistant to Gary Vee to partner in wine, Nate Scherotter fast ascended the ranks at VaynerMedia before spinning off with friend and coworker Jon Troutman to put their love for wine to work and launch a vine-to-table wine club called Empathy Wines.

Jonathan is the founding partner and CMO of Trainual, an award-winning adventurer, and host of The Stokecast podcast.

Having led teams on expeditions up some of the world's tallest mountains, and facilitated leadership training programs for Fortune 100 companies, Ronzio understands how to challenge and develop the whole human in the workplace and beyond.

A VaynerMedia alum, Jon worked alongside Gary and Nate to create other wine-related businesses such as Cork’d, a social network for wine enthusiasts, while growing VaynerMedia into the powerhouse agency it is today, all before launching Empathy Wines with a mission to make great wine available for less.