Keynotes & working sessions
Dr. Quennette Taylor
Make better decisions about people and work.
When your audience is navigating change, rethinking HR, or figuring out where AI fits, give them ideas they can use. Dr. Taylor connects leadership decisions to how work actually gets done.
Areas of focus
Signature keynotes
What does your audience need to work through?
Choose a starting point below. Each session is tailored to your audience, the challenges they’re facing, and what you want them to be able to do afterward.
Leadership Transformation
Leading a Hurt Workforce Through Change
For: Leaders guiding teams through disruption, fatigue, or a loss of trust.
A new direction doesn’t erase what people have already experienced. This keynote examines how previous changes shape employees’ responses and what leaders can do to rebuild credibility while moving the work forward.
Audience takeaway: A way to distinguish resistance from unresolved concerns and respond with more effective leadership action.
Explore the session
- Recognize how earlier decisions influence trust in the next change.
- Ask questions that surface what employees need to understand or do differently.
- Connect communication to decisions, expectations, and follow-through.
HR Transformation
HR Deconstructivism: Building a More Dynamic Function
For: HR leaders and teams expected to be strategic while managing an overwhelming volume of daily work.
What does the business actually need from HR, and is the function designed to deliver it? This keynote challenges inherited assumptions about HR’s role and examines the capacity, capability, design, and systems behind its effectiveness.
Audience takeaway: A practical starting point for evaluating HR’s current work against the business priorities it needs to support.
Explore the session
- Start with the business’s future needs before recommending changes to HR.
- Separate capacity problems from capability or function-design problems.
- Explain how a people recommendation affects delivery, cost, or organizational risk.
AI Readiness & Effectiveness
Making AI Useful at Work
For: Leaders and teams moving from curiosity about AI to thoughtful, repeatable use.
Buying access to AI doesn’t tell people how to use it well. This session connects everyday work to practical applications through the Four C’s: Clarity, Capability, Controls, and Continuous Learning.
Audience takeaway: A way to choose a useful starting task, improve the instructions, and decide what a person must review.
Explore the session
- Define the problem before choosing a tool or writing a prompt.
- Improve outputs through better context, clear expectations, and review.
- Build human oversight and learning into a repeatable workflow.
Also available: Organizational Culture Simplified. Connect everyday leadership decisions and ways of working to the culture your organization is creating.
The approach
What people learn matters. So does how they experience it.
Dr. Taylor brings an organizational strategist’s perspective and a practitioner’s understanding of what leaders are being asked to deliver. She examines how people, structure, and ways of working influence the results organizations get.
Sessions use relevant examples, questions that challenge assumptions, and opportunities to connect the ideas to participants’ own work. The goal is learning they can use when the event is over.
Dr. Quennette TaylorFounder & Chief Strategist, Taylor Made Global Consulting
PhD, Global Leadership & Change, Pepperdine University
Leadership and HR experience at Walgreens, Boeing, Honeywell, and Nike.
A signature TMGC experience
The HR
Strategy Room
Is your HR team expected to think strategically, but rarely given time to do it?
Give your HR team protected time to work through consequential business priorities and develop practical people strategies.
From keynote to working session.
Pair a speaking engagement with a structured team experience, or bring The HR Strategy Room to your organization on its own. Put the ideas to work on a business priority your team is facing.
Designed for your event
The format should serve the purpose.
A conference keynote, an interactive breakout, and a team working session call for different approaches. We’ll match the experience to your goals and the time available.
Keynotes
A focused perspective on a consequential challenge, with practical ideas for a broad audience.
Interactive breakouts
More time for questions, discussion, and applying an idea to participants’ own situations.
Team working sessions
A facilitated experience centered on a shared priority and the decisions needed to address it.
Invite Dr. Taylor
What would make this event valuable for your audience?
Share your event date, audience, and the challenge you want to address. We’ll discuss the topic and format that best fit your goals.
For conferences, associations, leadership events, and internal team development.
Can the content be customized?
Yes. The starting point is your audience and what you want the event to accomplish. The emphasis, examples, and opportunities for participation can be tailored to that context.
Can we combine a keynote and a workshop?
Yes. A keynote can stand on its own or lead into a working session. For HR audiences, The HR Strategy Room offers a structured way to apply the thinking to a real business priority.
What should we include in our inquiry?
Include the date, location or virtual format, audience and approximate size, preferred topic, session length, and what you want participants to take away. You don’t need every detail settled to start a conversation.
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