The Urban Brand Advocate

As your speaker you can expect, a high level of engagement and conversational interaction. Your audience will leave with a better understanding of how to engage with the urban culture.

Your audience will leave acknowledging reciprocal relationship of how urban life is shaped by and, in turn, shapes the urban environment. Cultures are as essential to a healthy and sustainable society as social equity, environmental responsibility, and economic vitality. It is of great importance that culture – both as a con- cept and as a phenomenon – is regarded as having value in itself, in addition to its potential habitat and market values.

Maisha Guy is a Keynote Speaker, Urban Brand Developer, Executive Board Compliance Specialist and Youth Advocate who works with startups to ensure they are efficient, compliant and operating from a sustainable business model at the outset. Diverse in her strategic and marketing skill set, and as a certified Business Analyst, Maisha also helps startups businesses and investors build invaluable connections in the urban network.
Whether in business or through her philanthropic endeavors, Maisha believes in fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves—the underdogs.
Once a foster child herself, she built a career in the nonprofit sector as a former Director of Operations at Youth Alive mentoring over 200 youth. While under her leadership, they could send talented youth to top universities and private schools, and one of their success stories featured on Oprah.
Today Maisha continues to speak to at-risk youth, their carers, and educators at events across the Midwest. She has continued her training as a fundraising specialist in various key positions throughout her career of over 20 years.
Maisha’s career highlights include starting a ground floor nonprofit organization at age 23 and growing its budget from $5 000 to $500 000 under 5 years. Another is co-founding investment management company, Supreme International Inc. alongside her partner and seeing it create over 10 global spinoffs of the same business model. She was also recognized for the significant turnaround of Hope for Women Magazine in a brief space of time while under her guidance as marketing director.
Maisha received her Business Analyst Certification from International Profit Associates. A short version of her story of transcending her background, titled ‘Projects to Purpose’ was published on (link hidden)
Reach out to Maisha to book her as a speaker; to increase your chance of survival as a startup from the ground up, or to tap into the vast opportunities offered by connecting with an urban network.