Constance Chatfield-Taylor, Flying Colors Broadcasts, Profiled in The Post
Constance Chatfield-Taylor, 61, has charted an unorthodox career that pinged like a pinball, bouncing from one thing to another, reports The Washington Post.
According to The Post:
“It spans continents and swung between enterprises as diverse as wineries and charter air. For the last two-plus decades, she has settled in the video broadcast business.
“Her District-based firm, Flying Colors Broadcasts, (she pulled the name from words she saw on a bus advertisement), has 10 employees scattered around the United States. It affords Chatfield-Taylor a comfortable living (homes in Georgetown and Upperville, Va.) on annual sales of around $3 million. In a good year, her take is the middle six figures.
“Flying Colors makes money by creating in-house training videos and filming interviews, ceremonies and announcements.
““We take care of details, all of them, just like an event planner,” she said. “Except we add television to the mix.”
“When Toyota Financial Services announced it was moving from Los Angeles to Plano, Tex., Chatfield-Taylor flew to California to set up the cameras and electronics so employees could hear and see the announcement in real time.
“”Flying Colors also coordinates live shots around the world, finding cameras and operators, booking satellite time and taking care of all the little details that go into filming a live sports event, a rocket launch, fundraiser, parade, inauguration or speech.
“Her business has taken her to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, an opera house in the heart of the Amazon, an election in Kiev, a New Jersey chocolate factory, White House welcome ceremonies, a scientist-packed amphitheater in Bangalore, an Ohio jet engine plant.”
(Chatfield-Taylor photo by The Washington Post.)
