Born in Guyana, South America and raised in the United States, Dr. Taylor earned a Doctorate in Business Administration with an emphasis on Leadership and Globalization at Georgia State University. He has provided consultation for small business executives, mentored MBA students through The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute(ENI) at Georgia State University, and helped develop professional colleagues through academic publications, speaking engagements, and workshops.
As a business scholar and consultant, Dr. Taylor provides professional services in Entrepreneurship education, Organizational Behavior, and Interorganizational Learning.
As an educator, Dr. Taylor currently teaches courses entitled Entrepreneurship in a Technological Environment, Management/Leadership, and Organizational Behavior to students of Gannon University’s Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Analytics Program where he is an Assistant Professor. He also teaches at Georgia State University as a Professor of Business under Robinson’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute.
Prior to this, he taught Computer Information Systems, Financial Accounting, Microeconomics, and Business Foundations to undergraduate students as a Professor of Business at Northern Pennsylvania Regional College (NPRC). In this role he also lead and developed NPRC’s Associate of Science in Business Administration degree program.
As an Entrepreneur, he is the owner and CEO of Taylor Holdings International including his schools, The Taylor Academy of Fine Arts and Tucker Taekwondo Center in Atlanta, GA.
As a philanthropist, Dr. Taylor is the Founder of Taylor Foundations for the Arts and Sciences where he applies clinical solutions using principles of Participatory Arts as well as provides international aid in Asia and the United States. A supporter of interculturalism, he is a prior multi year Chairman Member of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta.
As a Martial Artist, Dr. Taylor is an Internationally Licensed Master of Asian Martial Arts and Poom/Dan Examiner(Judge) who holds the rank of Seventh Degree Black Belt (Grand Master) in Taekwondo in his native Chung Do kwan School. He also holds the rank of Sixth Degree Black Belt with South Korea’s Kukkiwon, and Six Degree Black Belt with The World Taekwondo Federation and United States Taekwondo. Through his martial arts centers, Grand Master Taylor has vastly impacted a community of over 2000 students.
Other Credentials:
- Publishing Research Associate with Georgia State University Center of Engaged Business Research (areas of focus: Entrepreneurship, Engaged Scholarship, International Business)
- Alumni member of Executive Doctor of Business (DBA) Council
- Sustaining Member of The Kettering Network of Executives
- Executive Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) (Troy State University)
- Master of Internet Technology (University of Georgia)
- Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Health (Georgia State University)
