Scott Taylor

Background

About Scott Taylor

Scott N. Taylor is a professor of organizational behavior and the Arthur M. Blank Endowed Chair for Values-Based Leadership at The Blank School at Babson College. He is also a research fellow with the Coaching Research Lab at Case Western Reserve University, a member of the Institute of Coaching (IOC) at McLean, Harvard Medical School Affiliate, a founding member of the International Coaching Federation’s (ICF) Thought Leadership Institute Global Co-Lab, and a core member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (CREIO). The primary focus of his research is leader assessment and development. As a result, his research has focused on competency development (especially emotional and social competence), leader self-awareness, 360-degree feedback assessment, executive coaching, gender, and sustainable individual change. Scott has won a number of awards for both his research and his teaching. His scholarly work has appeared in several outlets such as Academy of Management Learning & Education, Business Horizons, Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Group & Organization Management, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Dynamics, Personnel Psychology, and The Leadership Quarterly. In addition, Scott has over twenty years of teaching experience in a variety of settings. He is a highly rated instructor and facilitator who has taught leadership development, human resource, and organizational behavior courses to executive, graduate, and undergraduate students. Scott has worked domestically and internationally with over fifty companies in a variety of industries. As part of the Babson Executive and Enterprise Education faculty, Scott has taught in custom programs for, among others, Assa Abloy, Biogen, Dell EMC, FLIR Systems, Grant Thornton, MCAA, MilliporeSigma, National Football League, Siemens, and Veolia. Independent of Babson, his past and present executive development work includes organizations such as Coca-Cola FEMSA, Fifth Third Bank, Office for Financial Research (of the United States Treasury), Pemex Gas y Petroqumica Bsica, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Smucker Company.