About the Founder

 Samantha Davis is the Founder of New Wayve Talent. She built this firm around three disciplines, and she has held every one of them as an internal role before ever offering it as a service. That is the whole idea. Executives get an operator's judgment rather than a vendor's checklist, because for more than a decade she was the operator.

Executive Operations. For seven years she supported a broker and chief executive through transactions from contract to close, running scheduling, project coordination, and confidential documentation under California compliance requirements. She led that organization's transition to fully remote, paperless operations. She has since carried calendar, vendor, and documentation work across multiple client engagements, where the standard is simple: the executive should never have to manage the person managing the work.

Embedded Recruiting. She has led a recruiting department of fourteen with full ownership of budget, metrics, and strategy, reporting directly to a Chief People Officer, and grew a clinical recruitment team from five to fourteen in three months. A recognition and career mapping program she launched reduced attrition by fifteen percent, and the employer branding work behind it raised the organization's ratings to 4.7 on Indeed and 4.8 on Glassdoor. Earlier in her career she owned full cycle recruiting, onboarding, and human resources for a technology services company, and she has implemented the applicant tracking and project management systems that make hiring repeatable rather than heroic.

Revenue Development. She has carried a full consultative sales cycle from first contact to signature, securing net new clients across several United States markets. She co-authored a company business development playbook with a VP of Sales, built the lead scoring model that tracked qualified leads through the funnel, and produced six to eight webinars and live events a year. She also led a complete company rebrand, from website to collateral to messaging, and held a seat on the senior leadership team setting strategy across marketing, sales, and recruitment.

Her degree is in psychology, which is less incidental than it sounds. Reading a room, hearing what was not said, and noticing the pattern before it becomes a problem are the habits underneath all three disciplines.

Samantha holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from California State University, Sacramento, and is an active HubSpot Sales Professional. She is a graduate of Leadership Bakersfield, Class of 2025, Vice President of Membership for the Far West Ski Association, and a member of the Rotary Club of Bakersfield Downtown. She believes a leader who is supported well has more to give, and that what a business does with its margin is the truest measure of it.