Jim Taylor is an author, consultant, and adviser to some of America's leading companies. He provides advice on future trends, branding, and marketing strategies for deploying digital technology and most recently the role of trust itself in the emerging global market place. 
  
Dr. Taylor serves as the Director of the Organic Institute, and an adviser to Global Commerce, iVillage, AskJeeves, FirstLook, PSMG/Globecaster, Schering-Plough, and a variety of other public and charitable clients on both strategic marketing and business development issues. Dr. Taylor serves on the Board of Directors of eScout and Talkware as well as the Board of Advisers of Aprimo Corp. and Organic Inc. Dr. Taylor is on the Board of the Institute of Human Origins and Futures for Children.  
  
Dr. Taylor co-manages CIO Boot Camps with Stanford University and Information Week Magazine. He is a partner with Business Week in an annual CEO retreat called Breakthroughs and he works with Brandweek and miscellaneous other magazines on issues of the future and its relationship to enterprise development. He is a member of the Harvard Business School’s Thought Leadership Forum and will be teaching a course at Harvard on the role of the visionary in contemporary business. He has served as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow of the University of Oklahoma, and will be teaching at Harvard’s new Waxner Institute for Leadership. 
  
Dr. Taylor's status as a leader of the industry was confirmed when the Wall Street Journal chose him as one of America's leading business futurists in 1998. His thoughts and ideas have been covered by periodicals such as Wired, Fast Company, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, Time, Ad Age, Ad Week and The New York Times. Brandweek, Dell Computer’s Browser Magazine, Darwin Magazine, Ingram’s Magazine as well as many newspapers around the country. 
   
Taylor co-authored (with Watts Wacker) the monumental book, The 500 Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next. The book examines the sweeping social change brought on by the Digital Age, and the effects the millennium will have on our corporate, political and cultural landscape. 
   
Taylor and Wacker recently published their new book, The Visionary's Handbook. This incisive book captures the interlocking web of paradoxes (of value, of size, of time, of competition, of leadership, of leisure, of action) that characterize the life of every business. Using examples and exercises, Taylor and Wacker teach every reader how to be their own visionary for their business, their personal life and their relationships. The book has been #1 on the CEO/READS list for several months. 
   
Dr. Taylor is currently writing a new book on the history of trust in the evolution of global markets. Specifically, Dr. Taylor is looking at the introduction of virtual private networks and the implications of these for supply chain and demand chain relationships. 

Now, through his continuing associations with Organic Online, and Global Commerce, Taylor is focused on the marketing, social and economic implications of today's latest technological applications, including e-commerce, telephony, and audio and video streaming. He brings corporations a compelling vision of the future of business, while emphasizing the importance of staying in touch with consumers' needs today. 
  
About JIM TAYLOR Prior to becoming an author and consultant, Dr. Taylor was Chief Marketing Officer, before that Senior Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer for Gateway Computer. He currently directs seminar development for Organic and provides consulting for his clients out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Prior to developing his current relationships, he was Chief Marketing Officer and Chairman of Iomega International for the Iomega Corporation. Before joining Gateway he served as Executive Managing Director and General Manager at Hill & Knowlton. Prior to that he was Chief Executive Officer and President of Yankelovich Partners. Prior to that assignment he was a Partner and Worldwide Director of Marketing at Ernst & Young.  
  
Dr. Taylor has received the outstanding alumni award from Michigan State University (1998). He was named Marketer of the Year by Brandweek magazine in 1997 and has received many awards for his marketing expertise as well. He has an undergraduate degree in Rhetoric from the University of California (1973). He has a masters degree and Doctorate in Communication from Michigan State University (1978). 
 
 
Topics
 
The Visionary's Handbook: Becoming Your Own Futurist 
The 500-Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next
The Digital Revolution in the Next Millennium

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