CMO with 20+ years in Marketing, E-Commerce, Creative, Digital and Strategy roles. Experienced team builder with strategy, omni-channel and international expansion experience. Focused in consumer products across fashion, beauty, health and hospitality. Passionate brand-builder with customer-centric and analytical approach.

Steph Taylor is an online business strategist, who helps service-based business owners build profitable and sustainable online businesses that continue to grow even when they’re offline. In 12 months, Steph took her online business from $100K to $1 million, and the best bit? This didn’t come with the trade-off of more hustle and more time. In fact, by creating a solid online business and sales engine, she was able to take weeks off to hike around the outback with a tent on her back, and be off the grid for a month in a campervan with her furry best pal, Archie. By leaning on strategy over tactics, value over the hard sell, and longevity over quick wins, Steph believes that a successful online business shouldn’t feel like you’re pushing an elephant up the hill, but instead should feel fun, flowy, and fulfilling. Through her podcast Imperfect Action that’s clocked over 1.5 million downloads and in supporting over 4,000 paid students and counting, Steph today teaches online businesses how they too can create financial, choice, time, and location freedom through her framework that blends strategy, content, sales, systems, and mindset. Because let’s be real: your online business shouldn’t fall apart simply because you weren’t “on the tools”, simply because you finally took that holiday, or simply because you didn’t post that reel.

Top performing leader, modern marketer, researcher, student and teacher with over 20 years of experience leveraging marketing and sales technologies and best practices to drive marketing & sales within organizations small and large. A well-regarded speaker and moderator at venues such as Oracle Open World, MAU, Eloqua Experience, Iterable Activate and others. When not helping companies reach their marketing & sales goals, the focus is entirely on leading the 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Cap for Kids to help families fight pediatric cancer.

Sterling Hampton is an American film director from California. In 2022, he directed a documentary that screened at Sundance, TRIBECA, AFI, Urbanworld (winner) and 20+ other film festivals. Hampton also directs in the commercial/branded-content space. His most notable commercial for Mercedes-AMG x will.i.am vehicle collaboration. In addition, he directed a music video that got adopted by the president of the United States. Currently, Sterling is working two feature films (one scripted and one documentary). Sterling has also finished a pilot proof he is looking to pitch.

I am proud of my professional affiliations, however the opinions expressed via my LinkedIn account are my own personal views and are not a reflection of companies I am currently, or was previously connected to. Leadership - Fundraising – Management - Development - Marketing - Public Relations. Specialties: Strategic Growth, Building Teams, Capital Campaigns, Major Gifts, Marketing, Communications, Alumni Relations, Board Relations, Volunteer Management, Annual Giving, Special Events, Change Management, Technology for NGOs, Executive Coaching and Team Building. Develop campaigns from inception to goal. Specialize in transformational gifts and capital campaigns. Write and package case statements, make presentations, and coordinate development activities. Extensive experience working with CEO's, non-profit executives, development directors, board chairpersons, and volunteer & staff leadership within complicated organizations both large and small. Excellent record of exceeding revenue goals. Skilled at developing naming opportunities, creating information flows, and gaining access to key decision-makers and benefactors.

My first job out of college was an inside sales rep. I was 22 years old making 100 cold calls a day to Fortune 1000 CFOs trying to convince them to manage their T&E costs with our software solution. I realized quickly I could get a better response by sending highly targeted emails to multiple folks in the top accounts in my territory. I would A/B test my own subject lines and body copy. I essentially created my own ABM strategy and personal SalesLoft cadence before those even existed. While I had success, I learned I didn't like sales. I loved tinkering, trying new things, using data to optimize my approach, and I loved technology. That job propelled me onto the journey of wanting to work in digital marketing. However, before I landed my first digital marketing job I needed experience. I couldn't get a real marketing job so I started my own website, built a CPC strategy, developed all the content myself, and grew the site to 30K unique visits a month. I used this self-made experience to get myself a real digital marketing job managing social media and influencer marketing strategy in the early days before Facebook marketing became what it is today. Fast forward 13 years, I've held several demand and growth leadership positions and have had the privilege to build and lead some of the best teams ever. My journey with startups taught me how to hustle. I was lucky enough to work with clients like HP, Samsung, IBM, and Verizon to improve their inbound acquisition strategies. I learned the importance of customer success and how important NPS scores and retention rates are. I was lucky enough to land a job at Google and took advantage of every opportunity given to progress my career within Google. From incubating a new campaign team that delivered $1B pipeline in its first year, to driving product led growth strategies for early stage Google apps, to now leading global demand generation for a product that is loved by billions of consumers and businesses. I have an always-on learning mindset and believe a good work ethic will get you farther than pure academics or experience. I like to hustle, I like solving problems, and I'm just getting started. (The views and opinions I share on LinkedIn are my own and do not reflect that of my employer)