Samantha Taylor

Samantha Taylor

A pioneer in corporate responsibility (CR) and sustainability, Samantha Taylor founded Reputation Dynamics to provide creative business and marketing solutions for executive management and their teams to protect and enhance the reputation of their brands, business, employee and community interests. Sam brings 15 years of for and non-profit branding, marketing and business development experience in the business-to-consumer and business-to-business sectors, having worked in both agency leadership and corporate marketing roles. Her key areas of expertise include brand development and positioning, integrated marketing and communications, cause marketing and philanthropic development, local and international community engagement. Diverse industry experience includes healthcare, lifestyle, professional and financial services including the US, Europe and Africa. An advocate and speaker of ‘Doing Good in Society,’ she consults with a diverse range of companies and individuals who are about to start, or currently engaged in, developing sustainable responsibility program initiatives. Key social and humanitarian issues include HIV/AIDS, poverty, environmental, workplace development and education. Formerly, Sam was the Chief Marketing Officer of GMHC, the nation’s oldest non-profit HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care services provider where she spearheaded a once-in-27-year rebranding initiative in 2009. Previously, Sam was a Managing Director at advertising firm Bozell Worldwide; Senior Vice President at FD; Director at Gavin Anderson – international business and financial services consulting firms. A native of London, Sam spent an impressionable part of her childhood growing up in Kenya, East Africa where she was engaged in community work with The East African Women’s League. She is a board member of the Stonewall Community Foundation, faculty member of the Broadway Theatre Project and founding member of The CMO Club. Sam’s recent speaking engagements include the American Marketing Association, The Corporate Council on Africa, PRSA, The CMO Club, Progressive Media Conferences and Diversity Best Practices.

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  • This broadcast is a favorite legacy show that we produced under our old name Travel'n On and before re-branding as WORLD FOOTPRINTS. We discuss corporate social responsibility with Sam. Tonya and Ian enjoy a conversation with Samantha Taylor from Reputation Dynamics.  Sam stops by to discuss corporate social responsibility during our live broadcast from the US-Africa Business Summit. Samantha "Sam" was born in London and raised in Kenya, East Africa, where she experienced firsthand the difficulties of poverty and community development. Sam established Reputation Dynamics in 2005 to offer local and global citizenship development to for-profit and NGO/social enterprise enterprises. Reputation Dynamics focuses on establishing creative alliances that inspire the public and private sectors to work together as a unified force for social and environmental sustainability. She encourages a wide range of organisations on long-term strategies for enhancing the wellbeing of communities by establishing holistic collaborations. She is an advocate [...]

  • This broadcast is a favorite legacy show that we produced under our old name Travel'n On and before re-branding as WORLD FOOTPRINTS. Tonya and Ian enjoy a conversation with Marc Cavaliere, Executive Vice President of North America for South African Airways.  Marc stopped by to talk to us during our live broadcast from the US-Africa Business Summit. The national airline of South Africa is called South African Airways (SAA).  The airline, which was established in 1934, has its main office in Airways Park at Johannesburg's O. R. Tambo International Airport. It has a hub-and-spoke network and serves ten African countries. The airline became the first in Africa to sign with one of the three main airline alliances when it joined Star Alliance in April 2006. After the South African government purchased Union Airways, South African Airways was established in 1934. At first, the South African Railways and Harbours Administration was [...]