{"id":2463,"date":"2018-02-04T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2463"},"modified":"2018-04-15T23:37:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T23:37:25","slug":"samantha-taylor","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/speaker\/samantha-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Born in London, Samantha &#8216;Sam&#8217; grew up in Kenya, East Africa where she learned, first- hand, the challenges of poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sam has more than 15 years of for-profit and non-profit marketing and community development experience having worked in both agency leadership and corporate marketing roles within the financial services sector. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sam founded Reputation Dynamics (RD) in 2005 to provide for-profit and NGO\/academic organizations with local and global citizenship development. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">RD mobilizes collective action to address critical social justice, humanitarian and conservation issues with a focus on inclusive partnership development between corporations, foundations, and non-profits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An advocate and speaker of \u2018Aligning Profits with Purpose,\u2019 Sam advises a diverse range of organizations on long-term approaches for improving the well-being of communities. Her key sectors span poverty, wildlife, and environmental conservation,\u00a0youth education in developing markets,\u00a0women\u2019s economic empowerment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Sam is an early innovator in business and social innovation development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Formerly, Sam was the Chief Marketing Officer of GMHC, the nation\u2019s oldest non-profit HIV\/AIDS care services provider where she spearheaded a once-in-27-year rebranding initiative. \u00a0Prior agency posts included, Managing Director at Bozell Worldwide, and Director at Kreab Gavin Anderson. Sam started her career at The Press Association in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Sam&#8217;s speaking representation includes diverse forums such as The American Marketing Association,\u00a0The Corporate Council on Africa, PRSA, Africa Travel Association, InterAction, ExecuNet, The CMO Club, Diversity Best Practices,\u00a0Columbia\u00a0and Texas Christian Universities and the UN Youth Assembly. \u00a0In partnership with Working Mother Media, she co-chaired an educational symposium &#8211;\u00a0\u2018Corporate Social Responsibility and Women\u2019 &#8211;\u00a0convening 120 representatives from the corporate, NGO and academic sectors. Other example topics include \u2018The Nuts and Bolts of Corporate Partnerships\u2019 for InterAction\u2019s Private Sector Working group, \u2018Regional Integration in Africa\u2019\u00a0at Columbia University\u2019s, African Economic Forum and \u2018Building Partnerships for Community Impact\u2019 for Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Sam, a former member of the Board of Advisors for Indego Africa, has a documentary film credit for THE UNCONDEMNED, a courtroom drama,\u00a0turned upside down,\u00a0when three brave Rwandan women came forward to tell their stories during the Rwandan genocide.\u00a0 Sam&#8217;s personal storytelling platform, Elephant Art enables her to illustrate the hope and spirit of the endangered elephant species and people of Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2500,"template":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}