Samantha Taylor

Samantha Taylor is the Founder and President of Reputation Dynamics and activist. Her key sectors span poverty, wildlife and environmental conservation, youth education in developing markets, women’s economic security and gender equality.

Taylor founded Reputation Dynamics in 2005 to provide for-profit and NGO/academic organizations with local and global citizenship development, access to new markets and fundraising services that build resilient communities for the long term. RD mobilizes collective action to address critical social justice and conservation issues with a focus on inclusive partnership development and storytelling. She is an early innovator in business and social innovation development.

Taylor has over 15 years of international for-profit and nonprofit marketing and development experience, having worked in both agency leadership and corporate marketing roles within the financial services sector. Formerly, she was the Chief Marketing Officer of GMHC, the nation’s oldest non-profit HIV/AIDS care services provider where she spearheaded a once-in-27-year rebranding initiative. Her other past roles include Managing Director at Bozell Worldwide and Director at Kreab Gavin Anderson.

An advocate and speaker of ‘Aligning Profits with Purpose,’ she advises a diverse range of organizations on long-term approaches for sustainability solutions, facilitating and building holistic partnerships to help improve the wellbeing of communities.

Taylor has spoken at diverse industry forums such as The American Marketing Association, The Corporate Council on Africa, PRSA, Africa Travel Association, InterAction, ExecuNet, The CMO Club, Diversity Best Practices, Columbia and Texas Christian Universities and UN Youth Assembly. In partnership with Working Mother Media, she co-chaired an educational symposium - ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Women’ - convening more than 120 representatives from the corporate, NGO and academic sectors.

Taylor was a former member of the Board of Advisors for Indego Africa and has a documentary film credit for “The Uncondemned,” a courtroom drama, turned upside down, when three brave Rwandan women came forward to tell their stories during the Rwandan genocide.