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Scott N. Taylor, PhD
Scott Taylor is an assistant professor of organizational behavior in the School of Management at Boston University. His current academic research interests are focused on leader self-awareness, leadership assessment and development, emotional competence, the sustainability of individual change, and multisource feedback (MSF). Scott has published scholarly research and practitioner articles which cover topics such as leadership development, sustainable individual change, 360-degree assessment, management education, and executive coaching. In addition, he has been an instructor and facilitator of leadership development, employee training, and organizational behavior courses to executive, graduate, and undergraduate students.
Scott also has over ten years of experience as an organization and leadership development consultant. As a consultant, he has worked domestically and internationally with over twenty companies in a variety of industries. Some of his past clients have included American Healthways, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Coca-Cola, KeyCorp, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica, Roadway Express, and Sherwin Williams.
The focus of his consulting work has been on leadership assessment and development, organization development, change management, team visioning, organizational communication, and performance management. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Scott was a manager at Ernst & Young, LLP in its management consulting practice, and later he was a manager of Organization Effectiveness with Sabre Inc.
Scott is fluent in Spanish and spent ten years working with individuals and organizations from Spain, Mexico, and Central and South America. He is an accredited consultant for the Emotional and Social Competence Inventory (ESCI) and a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. In addition, Scott is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Academy of Management, and the American Psychological Association. He has a B.A. in Spanish from Brigham Young University and received an MBA with concentrations in organizational behavior and human resource policy and a PhD in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University.
Most importantly, Scott is married and he and his wife have the joy and distinguished privilege of participating in the lives of their three outstanding children.
