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Bill Taylor is an agenda-setting writer, speaker and entrepreneur who has shaped the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate and succeed. "Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself," is based on in-depth access to 25 organizations that are making deep-seated changes under the most trying circumstances imaginable.

As co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company magazine, Taylor was named "Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance" by the American Society of Training and Development recognizing his impact on Fast Company's business.

Taylor is also an adjunct lecturer at Babson College, where he created the "Maverick Seminar at Babson College." He is the co-author of three other books on strategy, leadership, and innovation: The Big Boys: Power and Position in American Business; No-Excuses Management and Going Global.

Taylor has published numerous essays and CEO interviews in The Harvard Business Review, and his column, "Under New Management," ran in the Sunday Business section of The New York Times. Taylor also published a column, "Bill Taylor on Big Ideas," in The Guardian newspaper of London.
A graduate of Princeton University and the MIT Sloan School of Management, Taylor lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters.

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Steve Doyle  

KCADC Annual Meeting ChairMAN

Steve Doyal

Senior VP of Public Affairs and Communications
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Bob Marcusse  

President's Remarks

Bob Marcusse

President and CEO
Kansas City Area Development Council


Bill Taylor  

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Bill Taylor

Co-Founder of Fast Company
Author of "Practically Radical"


Leo Morton  

BOARD OF DIRECTORS CO-ChairMAN

Leo Morton

Chancellor
University of Missouri - Kansas City


Pat McCown  

OUTGOING Board of Directors
Co-Chairman

Pat McCown

CEO
McCownGordon Construction

 


Kansas City Area Development Council
 

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