Ebony Vaz has helped brands including AT&T, AAA, AOL, Cold Stone Creamery, Verizon Wireless, and public institutions like the University of South Florida turn complex offerings into revenue. An engineer turned marketing strategist, she built her approach on a simple belief: revenue grows when storytelling, science, and technology work together, not in isolation. Storytelling earns attention. Science proves what works. Technology scales it. Take any one leg away, and growth stalls.

In cyber incidents, natural disasters, environmental events, and employee facing crises, Ebony has led communications strategy where the story has to be true and fast, the science has to hold up under scrutiny, and the technology has to get the right message to the right audience before the wrong one does.

Ebony is now applying that same framework to the defining business risk of this decade: AI adoption without governance. As creator of the Certified AI Workforce Resiliency Professional (CAIWRP™) certification and author of The AI Resiliency Playbook: The Skills to Work, The Governance to Lead, she helps governments, enterprises, and economic development organizations turn AI anxiety into measurable resilience, before litigation, layoffs, or lost public trust force the conversation.

Ebony has trained companies and communities across multiple countries, including leading training across Europe, Central America and Israel, along with educating rural communities in Zimbabwe under a USAID funded project. She is also a selected Fulbright Specialist. It’s a track record she draws on when advising economic development organizations on what actually builds a resilient regional economy versus what only looks like one. Every framework in her curriculum is built on research, labor data, and case evidence pulled from her clients and ecosystems around the world.

Ebony is also the author of Because You’re Small: Effective Marketing Strategies for Immediate Implementation, a graduate of Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women Black in Business Cohort One, Kauffman Fellows’ Venture Deals Academy, and a former Techstars Startup Week Organizer and startup pitch judge. She’s been featured on various media outlets, including MSNBC.com, AdWeek, and PR Daily, and was named one of AAMA’s Top 50 Black Marketers on the Rise and received the MEDWEEK Legacy Award for Excellence in Marketing. She has been featured as a person to know by Florida Trend Magazine and 83 Degrees Media.

She serves her community as Founder of A Few Creatives; Co-founder and Board Member of the Black Innovation Leaders of Florida; a member of the Pasco EDC Global Coalition Committee and Workforce Development Committee, TiE Tampa Bay, and the Tampa Bay Regional Consortium; former Director of Sector Chiefs for InfraGard Tampa Bay; a Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council Project Phoenix participant; and a member of the Hillsborough County SBE Program Advisory Committee.

Ebony sums up her approach simply: strategy only has value when it becomes implementation, and revenue is the proof.

Keep up with Ebony’s column on diversity and tech for Moguldom.com here.

“I love hearing her speak! Ebony is a professional, intelligent and knowledgeable speaker. She knows her stuff and she is able to explain it in a way that is engaging and interesting.” – Andrea Parker, eXp Realty

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