Affiliation: University of New Mexico
Email: taylor@mgt.unm.edu

Biography

Scott Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico, where he is also a Bill Daniels Business Ethics Fellow and an Anderson Foundation Fellow.  Scott also serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Center for Social and Emotional Competence at theUniversity of the Pacific

The primary focus of his research is leader assessment and development.  He is fascinated with the various methods organizations use to assess and develop their leaders, evaluating the effectiveness of these methods, and developing new methods and technologies to improve leader assessment and development.  As a result, his research has focused on competency development (especially emotional and social competence), leader self-awareness, management education, multi-source feedback assessment, executive coaching, and sustainable individual change. 

Scott has published scholarly research and practitioner articles which cover topics such as leadership development, sustainable individual change, 360-degree assessment, management education, and executive coaching His scholarly work has appeared in outlets such as the Academy of Management Learning & Education journal, Human Relations, the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, the Journal of Leadership Studies, and the Journal of Management Development.  In addition, Scott has over twenty years of teaching experience in a variety of settings.  He has been an instructor and facilitator of leadership development, employee training, and organizational behavior courses to executive, graduate, and undergraduate students.  He was recently nominated for the New Faculty Teacher of the Year award at the University of New Mexico.

Scott has over twelve years of experience as an executive coach and organization and leadership development consultant.  He has worked domestically and internationally with over thirty companies in a variety of industries.  A few of his past clients include Alcoa, Boston Globe, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Coca-Cola, KeyCorp, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica, Roadway Express, Sabre Inc./Travelocity, and Sherwin Williams.  The focus of his coaching and consulting work has been on leadership assessment and development, organization development, change management, team visioning, organizational communication, and performance management. 
Scott is fluent in Spanish and spent ten years working with individuals and organizations from Spain, Mexico, and Central and South America.  He is an accredited consultant for the Emotional and Social Competence Inventory (ESCI) and a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations.  In addition, Scott is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society.  He has a B.A. in Spanish from Brigham Young University and received an MBA with concentrations in organizational behavior and human resource policy and a PhD in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University.  Prior to joining the University of New Mexico Scott was an assistant professor in the school of management at Boston University.

EI Related Publications:

Aliaga, A.V, & Taylor, S.N. (In press). The influence of emotional and social competencies on the performance of Peruvian refinery staff. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal.

Taylor, S.N, & Hood, J. (2011). It may not be what you think:  Gender differences in predicting emotional and social competence. Human Relations, 64(5), 627-652.

Taylor, S.N.  (2010). Redefining leader self-awareness by integrating the second component of self-awareness.  Journal of Leadership Studies, 3(4), 57-68.
Taylor, S.N.  (2006). Why the real self is fundamental to intentional change.  Journal of Management Development, 25, 643-656.
Boyatzis, R.E., Stubbs, E., & Taylor, S.N. (2002). Learning cognitive and emotional intelligence competencies.  Academy of Management Learning and Education, 1(2), 150-162. 

Boyatzis, R.E. & Taylor, S.N. (2002). Developing emotional intelligence in executive and graduate management education.  In Subir Chowdhury (Ed.), Organizations in the 21st Century:  Someday All Organizations Will Lead This Way (pp. 225-240).  London: Financial Times-Prentice Hall.