Cynthia Johnson is an 🏷️#entrepreneur, 🏷️#marketer, 🏷️#author, and 🏷️#speaker based in Los Angeles. She is co-founder and CEO of 📝Bell+Ivy, a personal branding and integrated marketing communications firm she launched with partner 📝Zach Binder after their previous agency, RankLab, was acquired by American Addiction Centers in 2015, where she served as Director of Brand Development. She specializes in personal branding, reputation management, and community building — typically engaged by founders building toward funding or exit and by investors developing personal brands that lift portfolio value.
Johnson published her first book, 📝Platform: The Art and Science of Personal Branding, with Penguin Random House in 2019. She is a contributing columnist for Entrepreneur with additional work published in 📝Forbes, TIME, Inc., Huffington Post, and 📝TechCrunch, and serves on the Forbes Agency Council and Young Entrepreneurs Council. She co-founded WonderKey Collective, a nonprofit redistributing corporate technology to foster youth, and sits on the advisory board of The Millennium Alliance. She has led or consulted on campaigns for PayPal, American Express, Levi's, Vans, Chevy, Susan G. Komen, and Maker Studios, and has keynoted Alibaba Group in China, World Government Summit in Dubai, Web Summit in Lisbon, and Global Ventures Summit.
Cynthia is an advisor at 📝One Inc and one of the longest-standing professional relationships.