Amy Hilliard

Founder and CEO of The ComfortCake Company; Self-Described "Reinvention Specialist"; Marketing Guru & Principal at The Hilliard Group

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Amy Hilliard Biography

Amy S. Hilliard is an award-winning entrepreneur, successful executive, marketing guru, and self-described "reinvention specialist."

Hilliard honed her leadership skills in consumer marketing, general management, strategy, branding, product development, retailing, capital raising, acquisitions, and global programming from experience with Fortune 500 corporations, legacy entrepreneurial companies, and her own businesses.

The Hilliard Group, her strategic marketing consulting firm, has worked with major corporations and non-profits nationally and globally to help them penetrate multicultural markets. In 2001, she founded The ComfortCake Company, makers of “Pound Cake so Good it feels like a Hug," which gained national distribution with United Airlines, Walmart, a McDonald’s test market, and Home Shopping Network among others using Amy’s own pound cake recipes. Hilliard now licenses ComfortCake’s intellectual property and Sugarless Sweetness®, a patent-pending sugar substitute.

A proven thought leader and international speaker, she is known as “The Reinvention Specialist” and is the author of "Pivot for Success - Hone Your Vision, Shift Your Energy and Make Your Move."

Previously President of Fashion Fair Cosmetics, the global legacy cosmetics company focused on women of color, Hilliard also held executive positions with Bloomingdale’s, Gillette, Pillsbury, Burrell Communications, and L’Oréal/Soft Sheen. Her marketing innovations to build one of Gillette’s brands into a $100 million-dollar business were documented in a case study for the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School. Hilliard has lectured at Northwestern’s Kellogg Business School, Loyola University’s Quinlan School of Business and other universities. She has also been an Associate Adjunct Professor of Strategy at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where she taught MBA’s from around the world a course based on her book, Pivot for Success.

Hilliard served two terms as a Trustee of Howard University, thirteen years on PepsiCo’s Multi-cultural Advisory Board, and was the first African American elected to the board of the National Association of the Specialty Food Trade. Hilliard currently sits on the LeanIn.org Advisory Board and was personally recruited by Sheryl Sandberg.

A native of Detroit, she is an honors graduate of both Howard University and the Harvard Business School.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/30/2024.

Amy Hilliard Speaking Topics

  • The Courage to Know When

    To Make Decisions and to Act

  • Networking

    The Do’s and Don’t You Dares

  • Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Spirit

    In or Out of Corporate America

  • Reinvent Your Business and Yourself

    The Art of the Strategic Pivot

  • Entrepreneurville

    Lessons Learned from the Real Land of Oz

Amy Hilliard Videos

  • Leading by Association - In Conversation with Amy Hilliard
    Leading by Association - In Conversation with Amy Hilliard and Pepper Miller.
  • Amy Hilliard's Pivot for Success. Understand Purpose, Passion ...
    Join the School of Management graduate program orientation speaker, Amy Hilliard, for a discussion of her book Pivot for Success.
  • Pivot for Success with Marketing Maven Amy S. Hilliard ...
    An international speaker, she is also the author of “TAP INTO YOUR JUICE -- Find Your Gifts, Lose Your Fears and Build Your Dreams” –...

Amy Hilliard Books

  • Pivot for Success
    Pivot for Success
  • Tap Into Your Juice: Principles So Sound, They Stir Up Success
    Tap Into Your Juice: Principles So Sound, They Stir Up Success

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Amy Hilliard is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Courage to Know When, Networking, Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Spirit, Reinvent Your Business and Yourself and Entrepreneurville. The estimated speaking fee range to book Amy Hilliard for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Amy Hilliard generally travels from Chicago, IL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Elizabeth Nyamwange, Israel Greene, Erika Gilchrist, Deanna Singh and Nicole Lynn. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Amy Hilliard for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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