Vanina  Schick

Vanina Schick

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Former VP at Maven I AI Marketing Practitioner I Qual Expert

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Vanina Schick will transform your marketing with customer truth

Marketing fails when it loses contact with customer truth. I've spent my career finding that truth and operationalizing it.

I hyper-scaled a major EU startup, BlaBlaCar, across 14 markets by uncovering what crossed borders and building the systems that let local teams align and execute with agility. We grew from 2M to 30M members.

As VP Marketing at Maven, I spent months in qualitative research with course buyers to uncover what separates courses that pull demand from experts who stall. That research became the Course-Market Fit framework: the fast-track to a successful Maven offer.

Today I work at the frontier of AI marketing. AI can execute at scale but cannot feel what your buyer feels, so I help marketers build the context layer that AI needs to ground execution in customer truth.

former VP Marketing at Maven
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Alumni reviews

Vanina is exceptional at workshopping participant ideas in the moment, helping us all reframe and reframe to get at the heart of who our customer is and what they want from us. This course really puts a fine line under customer "jobs to be done", and how we as 'instructors' need to know those jobs and build our content and sales around those customer goals.

Kris

July 2026
Director of UX Researcher Β· Hopscotch Labs
Vanina helped me clarify how to focus on a specific pain point. Her method was extremely useful because, rather than simply offering tactics, she first helped me understand and clarify the underlying concepts. Highly recommended!
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Syed

July 2026
Director Β· Learning Brains Ltd
Vanina has a wealth of experience, knowledge, and expertise to share. You’ll make substantial progress on moving forward in creating a course that people will want to buy. I’ve been developing learning programs and led marketing departments for 20+ years and Vanina’s approach opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about the customer journey. I learned why and when people will buy my program and how to align my messaging and marketing to the buyer journey.
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Rose

Cohort 1
Founder Β· Eight Wire LLC
Great framework for creating a compelling landing page
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Yadvinder

Cohort 1
Negotiation Professor Β· NegoAI