Dr. Talaya Waller, M.B.A., D.B.A., is a researcher, educator, and founder defining the field of personal/executive brand equity as an intangible asset. She holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership and is the author of Personal Brand Management: Marketing Human Value, housed in over 300 university libraries including MIT, Oxford, and Yale.

Dr. Waller has advised the United Nations, Federal Reserve, U.S. Congress, Amazon, and other global institutions on leadership and brand management. Her TEDx talk, The Future of Branding is Personal, has been viewed over 260,000 times.

She has taught business, leadership and personal branding across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa, including academic work in Switzerland, Brazil, South Korea, and South Africa. Her company, Valuables®, is VC-backed and supported by JPMorgan Chase, Oracle, and Techstars. It was selected to present its innovation to over 200 reinsurers and brokers at Lloyd’s of London and has led research partnerships with LSE, NYU, and Georgetown.