Inspirational Woman: Jill Taylor, Co-Founder The HuPerson Project
Co-founder and CEO of three businesses, Jill Taylor has devoted her career to fostering unique methods of transformation for individuals, teams and companies.
Jill co-founded The Taylor Group with her mother, Carolyn Taylor, at the forefront of wellness and leadership, helping clients understand the nature of the changes confronting them and how to become new inside those changes. Then as CEO of Burgerville, Jill helped the company navigate COVID with strategic flexibility while strengthening local economies by working with local farmers to the benefit of all. Together with Shelly Cooper and Daniel Goodenough, in 2023, Jill co-founded the HuPerson Project to transform a leader’s awareness and presence, and to open a new structure of thinking needed to navigate the world emerging. Jill’s changemaker spirit was recently recognised as one of Portland, Oregon’s most influential women by the Portland Business Journal.
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6 Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Alice’s Advice to Business
We are in an unprecedented world, which might suggest there are things that are possible that the past is not inclined to suggest. Adjacent to this is the ability to imagine making the “impossible” happen, in a manner outside of what is commonly believed to be possible. Let’s unpack these. In the first case, can […]
The Insight That Got Away
How do you sense what’s next for your company and/or your team? Do you have a way of tracking the insights that are personal to you, as a leader, and not just insights that come from the flywheel? In a recent introductory course to The HuPerson’s DesignOS, we had an inspired conversation about tracking insights […]
The Point of Purpose
A company’s sense of purpose is receiving increasing attention in the business world, giving us a more sophisticated understanding of its role beyond augmenting the bottom line. Should we then be looking at imbedding a process for achieving purpose, asks Jill Taylor? Our understanding of purpose now includes a developing awareness of the company’s mission […]

