About the Author

Chris Schembra is the Founder + Chief Question Asker of 7:47, which helps companies create meaningful connection through the 7:47 Gratitude Experience — an evidence-based framework that helps leaders build community and strengthen relationships. 

Having used their signature pasta sauce, the dinner table and the Virtual Gratitude Experience to spark over 500,000 relationships, their core hypothesis is that giving gratitude to others is the key to fulfillment, and ultimately good for business. His work revolves around a singular question, “If you could give credit or thanks to one person in your life, that you don’t give enough credit or thanks to, who would that be?”

Aside from 7:47, Chris is a Partner at OHenry Productions which both invest in and produce commercial theater. He’s led social campaigns with over 1,000,000 participants, lowering the suicide rate among veterans with ptsd, and the projects Chris has been involved in have been awarded 14 Tony Awards, 7 Emmy’s and a Grammy. 

He’s been selected #5 on the “10 Motivational Speakers that will Rock your next event” by Marketing Insider Group.  He was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Smart Hustle Magazine, and “People of 2017” by Clientele Luxury Magazine.  Recently, he was honored alongside Michael Phelps, Chris Evans, Kid Cudi and several others as “6 Successful Men Smashing the Mental Health Stigma” by Good Men Project.