Mikki Taylor, is the country’s leading authority on “inner and outer beauty” for women of color and a highly sought-after empowerment speaker, who inspires women everywhere in her mission to embolden them to own their lives, celebrate their beauty and master their purpose with distinction. An effective communicator, she empowers multigenerational women from the main stages of the world to executive coaching sessions, sharing insights and solutions about that which can impact their purpose — from the lack of treasuring their vision space, knowing their value and taking time to “self nurture,” to toxic relationships and behaviors that devalue and defeat them and ultimately compromise their leadership.
Taylor understands that empowerment is the new management and has authored the critically acclaimed Self-Seduction: Your Ultimate Path to Inner and Outer Beauty (Ballantine Random House);Commander-inChic: Every Woman’s Guide to Managing Her Style Like a First Lady (Simon and Schuster) and her latest, Editor in Chic, How to Style and Be Your Most Empowered Self (Simon and Schuster).
As the former Beauty & Cover Director at ESSENCE magazine, she casted and produced over 500 covers as well as its signature beauty pages to affirm the culture’s definition of beauty. Today Taylor serves as Editor-at-Large for the publication, hosting its audience at live events directed at empowering multi-generational women. Taylor is also President of Satin Doll Productions, Inc., a strategic branding, consulting, and communications company that helps companies carve out effective marketing initiatives in the beauty and lifestyle space, increase consumer engagement and products/experiences that resonate with “Beauty Enthusiasts.”
Taylor, who has over 30 years experience in media, has appeared on The Insider, Good Morning America, NBC’S Today with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, The View, Steve Harvey Show and such networks as CNN, CBS and BET. She’s worked with some of the world’s most fascinating and influential people including Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey and more. Among Taylor’s most treasured experiences was the joy of serving as an instructor at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa at the special invitation of Oprah Winfrey, and speaking at the 2018 De Beers Global Women’s Summit in Botswana to entrepreneurs on consumer engagement.
