Claire B. Soares in the doorway of Giraffe Manor in Nairobi, feeding one giraffe while another stands in front of the ivy covered house

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About Claire

Start with the giraffes.

That is not a stock photo. That is Claire, in the doorway, doing the feeding.

Giraffe Manor, Nairobi. One of hers.

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Most AI speakers have never run a business. Claire has built four.

Claire B. Soares spent her first career at a Fortune 500 company, ranking in the top 10% of sales consultants almost every year. She sold over $3.4B+ in software to major brands including Google, Microsoft, IBM, Kraft, Boeing, DHS, GSA, and the DoD, to name a few. She knows what it takes to move an organization through major innovation to production.

Then she built Up in the Air Life into a multi-million dollar luxury travel company, earned six consecutive years as a Condé Nast Traveler Top Travel Specialist, led the largest Black-led travel movement to Antarctica, and was named to Airbnb's inaugural Black Travel List. The giraffes at the top of this page are from her own trips, not a photo library.

Today she is a Certified AI Consultant and founder of Travel AI University, where she provides training and consulting services to travel agencies and professionals. Travel AI University recently launched an online community to learn and implement AI through Claire's signature V.O.I.C.E. Method™ framework. The examples inside are real operations from real businesses, tied to real revenue.