- Amir Dossai

Taylor is a meditating surfer obsessed with building businesses that make change. His first social enterprise, Change Heroes, mobilized people in 80 countries to fund and build 400 schools, water projects, libraries, girls scholarships, anti-sex trafficking work, and more for 200,000 people around the world.

He has lectured at Harvard, Princeton, NYU, Cornell, and the United Nations on the subject of social enterprise (How to make money while making profound impact in the world), and regularly presents to corporate audiences like Disney, Pfizer, Lululemon, KPMG, and Morgan Stanley, as well as social good events with audiences of 10,000+.

Taylor has been a professional firefighter, a real estate entrepreneur, and a body builder; he has studied with Zen monks in Japan, run with the bulls in Spain, has explored every continent on earth including Antarctica, has surfed the longest wave in the world in Peru, and has filmed mini-documentaries in the red light district of Cambodia to combat sex trafficking, the Ecuadorian Amazon to catalyze microfinance, and the jungles of Uganda as an activist for human rights.

Most recently, he cofounded Journey: an impact travel company bringing groups of 30-70 people on international trips to build homes, renovate schools, coach women's collectives, and aid refugees: transforming both the communities they visit and the travelers they engage.

"Taylor inspired a room full of incredibly successful people to be (way) better humans."

- Vishen Lakhiani, Founder of MindValley and A-Fest

"TAYLOR HAS MASTERED THE ART OF STORYTELLING AND HE HAS A STORY EVERYONE SHOULD HEAR. HE COMMANDED THE STUDENTS' ATTENTION AND LEFT THE ROOM INSPIRED TO SEE THEMSELVES AS AGENTS OF CHANGE." 

- Jeremy Zullow, Organizer TEDxPrincetonU