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Marilyn L. Taylor, M.S.

Other Information:  Resume:  View Resume Professional Focus: Professional and Organizational Development, Executive Coaching, Career Navigation, and Supervisory Development Certifications: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Strong Interest Inventory, FIRO-B Team Dynamica, LifeKeys, TotalView, Edge360 For Leaders, Six Sigma, Green Belt and White Belt Levels, The Paper Room System  Professional Experience and Background: Marilyn Taylor is the founder of Taylor Training & Development, Inc.  Since 1991, she has been working with people and organizations that want to learn, change, and grow.  The services of TT&D range from Supervisory Training and Leadership Development to Executive Coaching and Meeting Facilitation. Prior to completing an MSBE degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Marilyn served as a part-time faculty member at Davidson County Community College teaching a variety of business courses. After graduation, she began to develop and create her own learning programs, and thus Taylor Training & Development was born. Marilyn developed and maintained an MBTI® based program that sought to equip Small Business Center participants with knowledge and skill in effectively working with others.  She also delivered programs on effective communications and managing change, both to the college community and to businesses throughout North Carolina.  Nurturing those ties through the years, she continues to work with business and industry training through the college and also serves as a tutor.  College contacts led to Marilyn’s involvement with the world’s largest maker of spun yarn, Parkdale Mills.  Initially, she worked with supervisory training in one plant.  Ultimately, she became the corporate training consultant for over 30 plants, and led strategy sessions for top management.  While consulting with Parkdale, Marilyn received Green Belt training as management sought to create a Six Sigma climate within the organization. She became a leader and trainer in the initiative, working alongside managers, engineers, and statisticians.  Then president of Parkdale Mills, Dan Nation, called Marilyn a “catalyst for positive cultural change”. Marilyn’s work through the years has included not-for-profits and churches where she has assisted in strategic planning, teaching, and launching new initiatives. This work has taken her from the tropics of Belize, CA ~ to a tiny fishing village in southern Thailand.  Her newest learning adventure is in Career Navigation, as Marilyn sought to honor a long standing interest in helping others discover their vocation.  The journey brought her to the PaperRoom where she found new direction and momentum for the growth of Taylor Training & Development, Inc.  She created a “Southern Annex”, in the words of Sydney Rice, where individuals can come to experience the unique environment and process that has made the PaperRoom so richly rewarding.       From membership at the local chamber level, to affiliation with the global Association for Psychological Type, Marilyn seeks to touch her world and make a difference in it.

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Michael W. Lovett

Other Information: Mike is the President and CEO of HRD Strategies, Inc.  His experience includes human resources, organizational development, electrical engineering, construction, plant maintenance, and manufacturing.  Mike's primary focus for the past fifteen years has been human resources, organizational development, training, team-building and employee selection systems.  Mike spent several years as a manager in the engineering/construction/ maintenance division with Fluor Daniel and as Engineering & Maintenance Team Leader at Logan Aluminum, Inc. in Russellville, Kentucky, one of the premier examples of high involvement and participative management in the U.S. today.  Prior to starting HRD Strategies, Mike worked as a Corporate Manager of Training and Organizational Development where he designed and implemented team-based management systems with international joint ventures and re-designed traditional manufacturing facilities into team-based cultures.  Mike established human resource management functions, maintenance/engineering management systems, preventive and predictive maintenance systems and functional control engineering in organizations with specific needs in this area. As a performance based management consultant, Mike continually focuses on the growth and development of individuals and organizations through extensive training and coaching.  The scope of on-line experience with organizations such as ARCO, Duracell, and Halstead Industries, is synergistic with his consultative practice in multi-dimensional manufacturing and service organizations.  Mike’s practical experience and educational background in Electrical Engineering Technology and psychology establishes credibility and value with clients. Additionally, Mike designs and implements job analysis processes, 360 degree profiles, organizational surveys, assessment center selection and development processes, pay-for-knowledge systems, strategic compensation systems, performance appraisal systems, TQM systems and self-directed team systems.  Mike also conducts various types of leadership, technical, interpersonal, quality management, human resources, and management development training for all levels of employees.  Mike has published a Quarterly Journal titled “Employee Empower” and collaborated on “Working Scared” a business book written for managers working in trying times.  He has also presented at numerous conferences including: The Ecology of Work, NC SHRM Conference, PAI Twenty First Century Work Environment, Danville VA Leadership Southside, Burke County Chamber of Commerce, Alamance Human Resource Association, MHC Chamber of Commerce, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (SIOP).