BIO
J. Sakiya Sandifer is building the career of his dreams. His company, We Think LLC, was launched in March 2006, and is already garnering critical acclaim from entrepreneurs and creative marketing executives alike. His projects range from corporate brand identities, print ads, to speech writing and most recently publishing. As a result, Sakiya is turning skeptics into instant fans.
Sakiya’s journey started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which introduced Sakiya to basic graphic design skills, the backbone of his future. It was during this time Sakiya began turning a hobby designing flyers for his fraternity into his future career. Following his stint in college, Sakiya relocated to his hometown of Chicago and started his first company from his living room floor.
His persistence paid off after he frequented his local Kinko’s after hours in hopes of establishing relationships to obtain clients. The result was a growing steady business for ten years that was created from the simple mantra: producing exceptional designs to attract loyal clientele.
With the inspiration of the everyday life, Sakiya was motivated to continue to grow into a new direction: to become one of top creative thinkers of his generation. With this new life goal, he realized that he had to create a platform to express his ideas. The end result became the backbone for his first book, “Think Think Think and Think Again.” The short book of “SAKIYA-ISMS” is a collection of his unique ideas designed to be a spark for those seeking to create a positive change in their life.
In the short amount of time since its first publishing, Sakiya was able to build a loyal fan-base locally as well as internationally, and was able to use “Think Think Think and Think Again”, as the foundation for the curriculum of the 2006-2007 Youth Development Program in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Known for taking seemingly complex topics — particularly business and philosophy and how they influence our everyday experiences, and expressing them in very simple language, Sakiya has developed a speaking and workshop series entitled “Thinking Like an Entrepreneur Changed My Life!” that has already been utilized by a diverse number of current and aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as business entities as a vital tool for generating sustainability initiatives in their personal and business lives.
Sakiya’s profound ability to think outside the box has garnered him the moniker of the new generation philosopher, being praised as one of the top speakers at the TEDx Istanbul conference that took place in earlier this year in Turkey.
In addition to attending various speaking dates and working on upcoming business collaborations for We Think, LLC, Sakiya is currently promoting his third book entitled, “A Book of Questions with One Answer”, the follow up release to the hugely popular, “Thank You and You’re Welcome”, which he co-authored along side Grammy Award winning artist Kanye West in 2008.
What continues to surprise Sakiya the most about his success is the simplicity of his breakthrough moments. “It always seems in hindsight that breakthrough moments are always so simple,” explains Sakiya. In looking to the future, Sakiya seeks to empower others with techniques of combining critical and creative thinking with one key idea: Believe inward to become better!