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Claude Silver
Claude Silver helps organizations turn trust, emotional intelligence, and psychological safety into measurable performance. As VaynerX's Chief Heart Officer, she is recognized by Adweek, Campaign US, and the Department of Defense as a leading voice on heart-led leadership.
Claude Silver is the world's first Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX and the bestselling author of Be Yourself at Work, built on her conviction that optimism, bravery, and authenticity are not soft skills but essential drivers of performance.
Over more than two decades building and scaling organizations, Claude has helped VaynerX grow from roughly 400 to more than 2,000 employees across 11 countries. She works to embed trust, emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and accountability into how people lead and how performance actually happens. Before VaynerX, Claude held leadership roles at JWT San Francisco, JWT London, and Publicis London. A TEDx speaker, she has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and The Wall Street Journal.
Claude treats humanity at work as operational, not aspirational, showing leaders how trust, belonging, clarity, and emotional courage become measurable strategic advantages rather than cultural extras. Her work demonstrates that genuine human connection does not compete with business performance, it creates the capacity for it.
Audiences leave her sessions equipped to build environments where people speak sooner, contribute more fully, adapt faster, and perform more sustainably under pressure and change. Claude has been recognized by the Department of Defense as a Patriotic Employer, and received Campaign US's Female Frontier Award, as well as Adweek's Changing the Game and 2025 Mother of the Year awards.
Book Claude to give your organization a working model for performance built on trust.
Topics, sessions and talks
Most employees don't underperform because they lack skill, they underperform because they don't feel safe, seen, or clear on how to operate. Drawing on her USA Today bestselling book and her experience as Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX, Claude Silver shows leaders how to build environments where people can perform at their best without burning out, turning authenticity, trust, and clear expectations into stronger accountability, retention, and measurable business results across the organization.
As AI accelerates execution, the real bottleneck in most organizations is leadership, not technology. Teams don't fail because they lack tools, they fail from unclear direction, poor decision-making, and leaders who can't hold steady under pressure. Claude Silver shows why emotional maturity is now a genuine performance driver, and how leaders who bring clarity, consistency, and accountability outperform their peers in fast-moving environments, building a culture that belongs to every person in the room, not just the ones running it.
Most managers are trained to manage work, not develop people, and that gap quietly limits performance across an entire organization. Claude Silver reframes coaching as a core leadership function, one that builds accountability, sharper decision-making, and stronger, more resilient teams over time. She breaks down when leaders should manage versus coach, and shows how developing people, rather than simply driving output, gives organizations the capacity they need to scale sustainably.
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To book Claude Silver, email claude.silver@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Claude's availability and speaking fee. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and about your audience.
Claude Silver structures her sessions around a reframe: dismantling the assumption that underperformance is a skills problem and repositioning trust, psychological safety, and emotional maturity as operational performance levers. She draws on her tenure scaling VaynerX and her book Be Yourself at Work to give leaders a working model rather than a motivational framework.
Claude Silver speaks on authentic leadership and psychological safety, AI-era leadership and emotional maturity, and coaching as a core management function. She is the world's first Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX and the USA Today bestselling author of Be Yourself at Work, with over two decades scaling organisations across 11 countries.
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