0824 | How to Find and Work With a Mentor with Claire Diaz-Ortiz

Published on August 14, 2017. Updated on November 30th, 2023.

0824 | How to Find and Work With a Mentor with Claire Diaz-Ortiz

Claire Díaz-Ortiz is an author, speaker, and technology innovator who has been named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company. Claire was an early employee at Twitter, where she was hired to lead corporate social innovation.

She is a frequent international speaker on business, innovation and social media, and has been invited to deliver trainings and keynotes at such varied organizations and events as The United Nations, Verizon, Toyota, South by Southwest, TEDx, The Mashable Social Good Summit, and many others. 

Claire holds an MBA from Oxford University, where she was a Skoll Foundation Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship, and has a BA and an MA in Anthropology from Stanford University.

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In This episode, You’ll Learn:

  • Why having a mentoring relationship can change your career
  • How the best mentoring relationships get started
  • The difference between a mentor and a coach

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