Lesley Taylor, PhD (Stanford), is an established educator in the field of influence, leadership and success. She coaches and trains in the UK and internationally from her home in the Welsh countryside.
With a doctorate in Designing and Evaluating Educational Programs she is in demand in both business and academia. Her passion is stewardship of talent. She desires to see everyone whose life she touches, flourish.
Lesley is a dynamic facilitator and teacher with over 30 years of experience developing educational programs. She has worked in business with both start-ups and corporates, and in academia with staff and learners in schools, colleges, and universities. Lesley, and her husband David, home-educated their seven children while also hosting children from the USA and Europe who arrived for language learning or just for the experience of being part of their “school.”
She is the author of several e-books including:
Unleash Life: 27 Keys to Making Smart Choices
Unleash A Coaching Culture: 27 Keys to Powerful Conversations
Unleash Influence: 27 Keys to Leadership for (Almost) Everyone
Unleash Productivity: 27 Keys to Getting the Important Stuff Done
Unleash Your Resilience: 27 Keys to Developing Your Capacity to Adapt to Disappointment, Disruption, and Change
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Her academic field reports and articles on alternative educational paradigms include:
Peabody Journal of Education – Home Education Regulations in Europe and recent U.K. Research. Lesley Ann Taylor. Amanda J. Petrie. 2000
Explores Home Education Regulations across the UK and Europe and perceptions of this return to some age old methods of educating children
Theory into Practice Journal – Home in School: Insights on Education Through the Lens of Home Schoolers. Lesley Ann Taylor 1997
Unpacking research in California, long known for innovative practices, this work draws on national studies as well as qualitative data from a small subset of home educators to provide information and insight
At Home in School: A Qualitative Study of three Christian Home Schools – Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation – 1993.
Explores the lives of 3 home educating families in the San Francisco Bay Area and pulls out what makes them tick and what it is about their alternative education that gives their children an advantage.
She can provide training and expertise regarding:
How to support and encourage academic success in undergraduate and graduate students.
How to exercise intentional impactful leadership with integrity in personal and business life.
How to create a personally fulfilling productive life that unleashes the remarkable.
Lesley’s mission is to influence others to be their best selves.
She loves adventures, connections and figuring out what really matters.
Not surprisingly, her motto and rallying cry is Count Yourself In for more.
She champions influence as attainable by almost everyone, inspiring people everywhere to rise up with courage and learn to lead.