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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What Is A HuPerson? A Threshold for Business
What if being in business wasn’t separate from honoring what is sacred? What if the work we do each day—where we invest most of our time—was directly connected to caring for life itself? The HuPerson Project is an invitation to those questions. At its heart, it explores what becomes possible when business is guided by […]
Mise en Place for a New Threshold of Leadership
In the heat of disruption—rising inflation, shifting markets, cascading wildfires—it’s tempting to rush. To react. To solve. Leaders are often taught that decisive action is strength. There is also another way to lead, drawn from the calm precision of a Michelin-star kitchen. Mise en place—“to put in place”—is the practice of readiness. Michelin Star Chefs […]
Finding Buoyancy Amid Distraction: Attention Guided by Deep Core Codes
Consider the way a light piece of wood floats no matter how chaotic the waves are. Just like that light chunk of wood, we can develop skillfulness with surfing the waves of life. With practice, the noise of the distraction around us becomes less alluring to our attention, and our focus can settle on the […]