Karen Taylor Bass Public Relations is the ultimate empowerment tool and using it effectively will help you live your wildest dreams. Company: TaylorMade Media LLC Location: Valley Stream, New York Website: www.taylormademediapr.com

Biography:
As CEO/President of TaylorMade Media LLC, Karen Taylor Bass has amassed an astounding list of accomplishments since launching her professional empowerment agency in 1999. Through her hand-on approach, she has introduced the masses to groundbreaking musicians from Jill Scott to D’Angelo. Currently, her boutique agency is setting the standard as a leader in providing the best in media training and boasts a diverse client roster including Harper Collins Publishing, Christopher Gardner (CEO and author of “The Pursuit of Happyness),” NBA stars–Chris Webber, Ray Allen, the Urban League, Home Action USA, ABC Networks Interscope Records, Coca-Cola USA, Mitchell & Titus CPA, WKYW-TV and Hidden Beach Recordings, among them.

Since expanding the company’s portfolio to include personal and professional empowerment in 2005, Taylor Bass, who began her career as a fundraiser, has utilized her finely crafted communication skills to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs, through public relations consulting, media training, and mentoring services. Her “As Powerful As You Want To Be” Public Relations & Mentoring Boot Camp series is currently offered in eight cities while TaylorMade Media’s monthly E-newsletter, which features career and professional development tips, beauty and arts news that pertains to the African Diaspora, is serviced to over 1,500 students and professionals.

As one of the country’s burgeoning orators, Taylor Bass has shared her message of using public relations as an empowerment tool with the students of University of Texas for the First Annual Mentoring Symposium and acted as the keynote speaker for the National Black Accounts and 100 Black Women (Corporate Retreat). In addition, she’s taken the podium at St. John’s University, her alma mater, as well as The Learning Annex of New York City, Columbia University, Temple University, Hunter College, New York University, JAMPACT, The Consulate of Jamaica and National Black Public Relations Society, to name a few.

Taylor-Bass has been profiled in Marie Claire, Ebony, Billboard and Pathfinder –Travel and has been quoted in Black Enterprise, The Network Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer and Essence. The recipient of the Future Leader Award from Women Making a Difference and NABFEME (National Association of Black Female Executives in Music & Entertainment) PR Executive of the Year Award for 2005, she’s contributed her writing to the best-selling book, “Souls of My Sisters” and appeared on TV and radio airwaves including WABC, Fox-29, WB-17 and WRKS-FM’s “Phenomenal Woman” segment.

Formerly the President of the Blues Babe Foundation, Bass has served on the board of the Enterprise Center in Philadelphia.

Availability:
Available as a PR Expert and empowerment/motivational speaker to students, organizations and woman interest groups. Also, available to give lectures and presentations on "PR an Empowerment Tool."