Kim Taylor

Professional Speaker Bio

With nearly 25 years as an executive coach, leadership development advisor, and health & wellness advocate, Kim Taylor helps people bring about transformative change to experience a more integrated way of living and working. Focused on creating inner peace as the pathway to professional productivity, effectiveness, and dynamic leadership, she designs custom learning experiences and transformational retreats as a gateway to personal and professional freedom. In fact, she’s in the process of writing a book about it – Peace + Productivity: Creating a Rhythm That Works Personally and Professionally.

Having spent the majority of her career in corporate America, she has navigated the many challenges of integrating a successful career with her personal wellbeing and has helped hundreds of clients create their own unique path forward as well. Her client list includes Amazon, HCSC, Astellas, AAA, Zurich, OneAmerica, Emeritus, Association of Corporate Counsel, Advocate Aurora Healthcare, Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency, the Association of Administrative Professionals and many more.

Kim has both an MBA degree and Master of Economic & Social Development degree and is a former Adjunct Professor teaching Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy courses. She is also a former Peace Corps Volunteer, having served in Honduras from 1992 – 1994 on a Child Survival / Health & Wellness tour. She has lived, worked and traveled extensively throughout Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Asia Pacific. She speaks fluent Spanish and studies language and culture as one of her hobbies.

Philosophy

Creating a life that we love living, where we are energized, focused, and deeply inspired, depends upon our ability to recognize and shift our perspective, decisions, and behavioral patterns to meet our personal needs while we pursue and achieve our professional priorities. Life and career are not things to “endure” but rather to embrace and enjoy as we create, grow, and evolve. When we are exhausted, overwhelmed, or just not clear on our goals and the path to attain them, it is anything but joy!

For many people, choosing to grow a professional career has historically meant living with the unspoken expectation of keeping personal wellness and life wholeness at a “healthy” distance. Ironically, doing that is anything but healthy.

Unfortunately, you already know this; your team members and colleagues already know it. If you’ve been in a professional career for any length of time, you are likely already feeling the mental and physical exhaustion that comes from always trying to meet the demands around you – clients/customers, colleagues, management, family, friends, and the myriad of administrative “to-do’s” that we each juggle day in and day out. But…

•When we throw ourselves toward professional aspirations with no consideration for our wellbeing… we disengage.

•When we live, week after week, thinking, “I’ll take care of me soon, but not today…” we burn out.

•When we consistently put our needs on the backburner – we create distress, dis-ease, and debilitation.

Done long enough, we begin living like robots at our best and zombies at our worst. We have become unable to create health, wellness, and joy for ourselves or for those around us; we can no longer contribute our creative and innovative best but rather find ourselves just going through the motions, day after day.

But there is an alternative to that vicious cycle of depletion. When we give ourselves the ability to attend to our personal priorities and stay focused, disciplined, and consistent on serving our fundamental health and wellness needs first, as part of our professional baseline, we become… unstoppable.

The result is the ability to enjoy our life and our career, and to be centered,

calm, strong, and confident.

In essence, we tap into the power of The Zen Within®.