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About Me.

Taylor Peyton, Ph.D., advocates for human flourishing in the workplace. She is an author and speaker on topics that enhance people’s self-determination and authentic connection to others. Her academic publications and areas of expertise include leader and employee authenticity, motivation, trust building, and passion for work. For a decade she has served in consultative and advisory roles for companies, creating leadership development trainings and psychometrically rigorous soft skills assessments.

 

Over the last four years, Taylor served as a full-time Assistant Professor of Leadership and Workplace Psychology at Boston University’s School of Hospitality Administration. Now opting to focus on applied work, she is currently President of an international distribution startup for science-based workshops that educate leaders on how to keep their teams optimally motivated. She is also Senior Organizational Psychologist for BiasSync, a DEIA training company that reduces the negative impact of unconscious bias in organizations.

Keynote & Presentation Highlights

2023 Workshop

Costa Rica

2022 Workshop

Costa Rica

Authentic Relating and Heart-Centered Leadership. Delivered to Lionheart Investors’ Circles. Blue Spirit, Costa Rica. Workshop.

Powerfully, Beautifully, Authentically You: How to "Be Yourself" while Leading Others. Delivered to Lionheart Investors’ Circles. Blue Spirit, Costa Rica. Workshop.

2022 Workshop

Paris, France

The Art of Leadership. Guest Lecturer for HEC Paris
Executive MBA program.

2022 Conference Presentation

SHRM Israel

2021 Keynote

Boston, MA

2020 Panelist

Boston, MA

Carrot vs. Stick? The Spectacular Failure of Employee Reward and Punishment Systems.

Why We Gather: The Essence of Authentic Connection. Destination East, Northstar Meetings Group.

Shades of power: The new paradigm of leadership. Film Panel at the International Leadership Association Global Conference.

2019 Research Presentation

San Diego, CA.

A Model for Being Authentic. MEECO Leadership Institute, Master Executive Coaches, Annual Conference. 

2017 Multiple Workshops

Stokholm, Sweden

Building trust in leaders.  Presented to 150 leaders over a 5-day period, in partnership with Great Leaders’ Trust Days.

2017 Workshop

Newport Beach, CA.

The practice of being authentic.  Presented to Super-Chair group at Vistage International.

Lead authentically: Create a values-driven culture.  Delivered to Startup Week.

2017 Workshop

San Diego, CA.

2017 Workshop

San Diego, CA.

How to build a values-driven culture. Delivered to entrepreneurs at Startup Leadership.

2016 Research Presentation

Victoria, BC, Canada

6th International Conference on Self-Determination Theory. Basic psychological needs and need thwarting as mediators between forms of perceived leader controlling behaviors, organizational politics, hard/soft forms of power, trust, and employee work intentions.

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