Laura began her Zambezi leadership career with 14 years in Account Management, eventually running large portfolios of clients at Zambezi as a Group Account Director, including media, creative, integrated, and social-focused brands. As President of Zambezi, Laura Stayt leads the agency to implement business development practices that have grown Zambezi’s integrated offerings and elevated the agency to global status. She oversees all business units within the company, including the mainline Zambezi creative offering, Scale by Zambezi (media), and FIN Studios (creative production studio), and a list of billion-dollar clients that includes Liquid I.V., TaylorMade, LPL Financial, Under Armour, NFL, and Honest Company. Having served as Co-Chair of the Worldwide Partners (WPI) Next Gen Council, Stayt identifies opportunities for expanding collaborations between Partner agencies, evolves the network’s offerings to better support clients, and enhances the employee experience through programs like the Young Indies competition, which assembles junior teams to answer a creative brief for a global nonprofit. Prior to Zambezi, Laura has worked at top global ad agencies, including AMV BBDO in London, TBWA\Chiat\Day LA, and CP&B, where she led relationships with high-profile companies, including Beats by Dre, Amazon, PayPal, Airbnb, and Twitter.