Trust Across America Names Reputation Expert Davia Temin One of "Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business" for Second Consecutive Year

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NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Marketing, reputation, and crisis strategist Davia Temin has been named for a second consecutive year to the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business by Trust Across America-Trust Around the World (TAA-TAW). The annual list honors CEOs, leadership experts, and researchers across public and private sectors.

"Trust is a word that is so easy to invoke and so hard to win and keep," says Ms. Temin, CEO of Temin and Company, a management consultancy focused on marketing strategy, reputation and crisis management, and leadership coaching. "As we're seeing today, the digital age is bringing issues of trust even more front and center. When individuals betray trust, everyone knows."

She works with global corporations, universities, and NGOs on leadership, marketing and media strategy, and social media monitoring and positioning, as well as advises major corporations on their women's leadership councils.

"New research from Stanford Business School has just been issued, finding that 'reputation capital' actually makes a real financial difference to share price. This means that companies who have breached trust can recover through broad-based goodwill efforts. Trust and reputation may be intangible but they are powerful."

A global initiative launched shortly after the 2008 global financial crisis, TAA-TAW uses criteria including transparency, long-term reputation preservation, and stable financials to name experts and leaders that can "collectively transform the way organizations do business."

Ms. Temin writes a column for Forbes.com entitled "Reputation Matters" covering the 'do's' and 'don'ts' of corporate social media, branding strategy, women's leadership, resilience, and corporate governance in the 25/8 age of social media. In addition, she tweets (@DaviaTemin) regularly on these issues, and publishes pertinent thought leadership on the Temin and Company website.

Ms. Temin is also a frequent public speaker to organizations on subjects ranging from rebuilding trust, crisis and reputation management and resilience to building brands over social media, executive presence, and presentation training. She appears regularly on local, national, and global television and radio, and is frequently quoted in major publications.

In addition to her work as a reputation and crisis strategist, Ms. Temin serves as the First Vice Chair of the Board of Girl Scouts of the USA, Chair of the Board of Video Volunteers, and as a member of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College. She is also on the advisory boards of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia Journalism School and ProPublica, and on Harvard Kennedy School's Women's Leadership Board. 

To view the full list of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business in 2014, please click here.  

About Temin and Company 
Temin and Company Incorporated (www.teminandcompany.com) creates, enhances, and saves reputations. The firm helps corporations, professional services firms, and other institutions define and strengthen their public image – and their bottom line – through strategic marketing, branding, media relations, thought leadership, speaker and media coaching, financial communications, and crisis management. 

Clients include the leaders of some of the world's largest and most well-known corporations, financial institutions, pharma and biotech companies, law firms, consulting firms, publishing houses, venture capital funds, authors, politicians, and colleges and universities.

About Trust Across America-Trust Around the World 
Trust Across America-Trust Around the World™ is a program of Next Decade, Inc., an award-winning communications firm that has been unraveling and simplifying complex subjects for over 20 years. TAA-TAW provides a framework for public companies to improve trustworthy business practices, as well as showcasing individuals and organizations that are exhibiting high levels of trust and integrity.

If you would like to discuss rebuilding trust in business or speak with Davia Temin on another matter, please contact Trang Mar or Lily Rossow-Greenberg of Temin and Company at 212-588-8788 or [email protected].

SOURCE Temin and Company, Inc.