Media & Marketing Bios

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Shani Syphrett-Haynes is an award-winning brand strategist, marketer, business coach, and creative entrepreneur. She leads global integrated marketing at Pinterest and is also the founder of the boutique professional development firm, Jamila Studio. She has spent over 10 years helping brands, creative agencies, startups, small businesses, and diverse creative practitioners make their unique impact on the world through smart insights, community engagement, and value-driven strategies. Some of her clients you may have heard of include Samsung, JP Morgan Chase, Maybelline, The Gap, State Farm, HBO, Microsoft, and Essence Magazine. And she has a suite of others, led by people of color, that she would love to introduce you to. Shani is passionate about enhancing well-being for creative beings and championing women of color-led innovation.

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Shani Syphrett-Haynes helps diverse creative practitioners build the future they want to see while upholding their agency, well-being, and cultural connections. She has spent over 10 years practicing this work as a brand strategist, global marketer, community-builder, and creative business coach in corporate America and through her own consulting firm, Jamila Studio.

Expertise

Topics

• Culture & Impact-Driven Brand Strategy

• WOC-Led Innovation

• Well-Being for Creative Beings

• The Creative Economy / Future of Work

• Building A Portfolio Career

Credentials

• B.A. in Biology & Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

• Graduate study in Interior Architecture, Boston Architectural College

• Self-taught (and award winning) brand & marketing strategist

• Professional coaching training, ICF-certified Coaching and Positive Psychology (CaPP) Institute

features

• Nasdaq

• TED Ideas

• Create & Cultivate

• Thrive Global

• Black Bold & Natural 

• Bold Broads

• Lean Commerce Podcast

• Mind of a Mentor Podcast

• BlendTW

• Ipade
  

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