Biography
Dr. Tom Taylor, AICP, teaches leadership, intercultural communication, consensus building and conflict resolution classes at FSU and works as a private consultant and trainer. He was previously the Associate Director of the FCRC Consensus Center for 20 years. That program was created by the legislature to address critical problems facing Florida. It promotes and provides mediation, facilitation and other collaborative services. Dr. Taylor has worked with public and private parties to seek solutions to case-specific conflicts and policy disputes, and to reach consensus on strategic plans and visions for organizations and communities. His projects range from facilitating a few people for a few hours to multi-meeting processes that took over a year, large groups with as many as 2000 in one meeting and one with a settlement of over five hundred million dollars. Hundreds of elected officials, administrators, staff, mediators, attorneys and others have participated in his trainings. Prior to coming to the FCRC he was a professor at the University of Oklahoma, a practicing planner, consultant and trainer.