Dr Damien Taylor PhD

Board Director & Head of Programs

Damien is a specialist leadership consultant and researcher. He works with senior leaders worldwide in many different industries including High-Performance Sports, Corporate, Military, Special forces, Emergency Services, and Mental Health Services.

Damien is currently researching the concept of leadership excellence. His research is from a new perspective that examines the “Beliefs and Values of Proven Leaders” to explore how their decisions are made. He has interviewed over 150 senior leaders worldwide in these varied segments.

Damien also specialises in research of women’s senior leadership and the lack of women senior leaders in many of these segments. His work and research in this space is from a new perspective and began during his doctoral research when he examined the lack of women high-performance coaches in sports to explore what are good organisational practices of the senior leaders in NSOs to attract, develop, and retain women high-performance coaches. 

He has over three decades of experience in global corporate general management and has been involved in high-performance sports globally as an athlete, coach, consultant, and mentor for over four decades. He is a World Champion and National and Oceania Champion athlete, and an awarded high-performance coach.