Scott Tillitt

About

I'm a connector — of dots and people. A strategist, publicist, marketer, social entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, and writer with 25+ years in various culture-shaping (and sometimes suffocating) worlds — advertising, media, interactive design, photography, technology, television and fashion — before applying my corporate skills to social impact.

Some years ago, catalyzed by 9/11 and an ongoing process of spiritual and social awakening, I broke the trance of an increasingly cynical consumer culture and started working towards positive, impactful change. I have an insatiable interest in transforming failed systems, in big ideas and the behaviors that drive people, what resonates with them, and how to engage them. Basically, I aim to ignite the mind, tickle the emotions, and stir the soul of my fellow humans.

I handled media relations for the 2003 NY visit of the Dalai Lama, then founded Antidote Collective in 2004. I've since worked with dozens of innovative nonprofits, foundations, citizen groups, social entrepreneurs and thinkers at the intersection of progressive issues, media, arts and culture, socially responsible business and big ideas — on both US coasts and places in between, in Europe and Australia.

Those have included subsequent US visits of the Dalai Lama, publicity for Phil Donahue’s anti-war film "Body of War," PR for healthcare "whistleblower" Wendell Potter and groups like Rainforest Action Network, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and Bard Center for Environmental Policy, branding for Rippel Foundation, strategic communications for the Local Economies Project of the New World Foundation, and branding for American Express with Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide's famed design and innovation division Brand Integration Group (BIG).

I also founded a social venture (BEAHIVE), which continues to grow, and was a co-founder and board chair of a nonprofit (Re>Think Local).