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Kendria Taylor

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President and Principal Consultant
TG8 LLC. Solutions Insight
Country or state 
United States (Texas)
Available to 
Global
City 
Arlington
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
Yes

Personal Details

Current position (3)

President and Principal Consultant

TG8 LLC. Solutions Insight

Chief of Staff

Hicks Elections Group

Vice President Community Relations

CHCP

Degrees (6)
Master of Family Studies
Amberton University
2006 to 2008
Sociology, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Ethnic Studies
University of North Texas
2000 to 2003
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Certificate
University of South Florida
2021
Alternative Dispute Resolution- Certificate
University of North Texas
2002 to 2003
Mediation- Certificate
University of North Texas
2002 to 2003
Womens Entrepreneurship Certificate
Cornell University
2021

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The Courage to PLAY

If you have the courage to PLAY at work and in life, then my highly interactive experiential training sessions are exactly what you have been looking for! What is the courage to PLAY? P.L.A.Y. is an acronym that means: Practicing Leadership and Authenticating You. My blend of learning styles to facilitate a message that sticks is key to why my clients book me over and over and specifically after lunch.I have topics like: "In-Credible to Incredible Communication". Why communication is important and all levels, and understanding how people communicate, create better collaboration, empathy competence, and promotes active listening that helps to remove internal noise/bias.

This session is a fan favorite packed with experiential moments that make the content stick. It's good for all levels of leadership and with my credential in Family Studies, this would also be a great family session as well.

Why Book Me?

Why book me? First, my facilitation style and my ability to appeal to all learning types make me an ideal facilitator. Most of my clients bring me in after lunch because they know I am going to wake everyone up. All of my training consists of blended learning tools that provide fun experiential activities for participants. The power of this type of PLAY provides a highly energetic environment but ties it back to the content so the emotional connection makes it stick. My sessions make an hour feel like 20 mins and leave participants wanting more. So let me help you PLAY- (Practicing Leadership Authenticating You) at work and in life!

Second, I have great content that I can customize and curate based on my client's needs and challenges. I ask questions and do the research to provide a meaningful and impactful session. I have worked with schools, non-profits, and corporate organizations all across the country. I have created my own assessment tools that help training be even more effective.

Third, my training is designed for intimate sessions of 20 people or large sessions for up to 500. Due to the highly interactive activities, I am able to command their attention and captivate them until the session is over. All you have to do is have the courage to PLAY and I will do the rest. I also encourage you to speak with my present and past clients.

Author Speaker

Kendria Taylor is A published author and community leader, who served as the first black Vice President for a network of schools where she led operational and community outreach strategies all throughout Texas.

She has also been a Sr. Business Consultant for the international training company JBG Success Academy and the Racial Equity Group where she customized and delivered training for fortune 100 and 500 companies. In 2017 she published her first children’s book series titled, “The Adventures of Jax and Riley. The series teaches student empathy and other topics that impact youth through social-emotional learning.

With over 19 years of experience in non-profit, corporate, training, and consulting Taylor started her training and consulting company TG8 LLC (TG8 Solutions Insight) where she currently serves as the President and Principal Consultant.

A high-energy consultant and subject matter expert, known for her experiential and group play therapy training. Taylor’s management expertise is layered with training in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mediation, and intense Empathy Circle Training ” Taylor empowers managers and business leaders with her expertise in empathy, emotional intelligence, and team integrated systems. She is a highly sought-after speaker for educational institutions, businesses, and nonprofit organizations across the country.

She has worked with organizations all across the country including Empower a former Chase subsidiary and the second-largest financial company in the USA. Her client list also includes Dallas Independent School District, DeKalb Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta, Tarrant County, Education is Freedom, The Henry Group, State Farm, Inclusive Diversity Institute, Tarrant County College District, Paul Quinn, Department of Defense USA Army, and many more.

When Taylor is not coaching and facilitating, she enjoys engaging in her community through organizations like Jr. League, Girls Inc, and currently serving on the board for Communities In Schools Dallas, and Leadership Arlington. Taylor has received honors such as The Big Brothers Big Sisters “Heart of Gold Award” and has been the recipient of the “Big Sister of the Year” Award. In 2016 and 2019 Kendria was recognized with the “Women With Vision” award by the Jr League of Arlington and was the first woman of color in the 40-year history to receive this honor.

Taylor is a credentialed Mediator Alternative Dispute resolution and Family Mediator. She has a bachelor’s degree in Applied Arts and Science in Sociology, Conflict Resolution, and Ethnic Studies from the University of North Texas and a master’s degree in Family Studies from Amberton University.

Presentations

Presentations (11)
Managing A Squiggly Line

Are you a data diver who seeks knowledge and understanding? You value logic, integrity, and invention. Maybe you value dependability, organization, and sensibility. Maybe you enjoy managing or being a part of a peaceful productive team of squares, but what happens when you have a squiggly line? This training will give you the tools to manage that spontaneous, optimistic employee, who likes to color outside the lines.

Owning Your Part of Diversity and Inclusion

A course designed to empower individuals to create a more inclusive environment in their workplace or community. Through interactive discussions, personal reflection, and real-world examples, participants will learn the importance of understanding and valuing differences and how to identify and address biases and barriers that can prevent people from feeling included. By the end of the course, participants will have the tools and knowledge they need to take ownership of their role in promoting diversity and inclusion and making a positive impact in the world around them.

• Objectives:
• Introduction to the importance of understanding and valuing differences in the workplace or community
• Interactive discussions and personal reflection on personal biases and barriers that prevent inclusion
• Real-world examples of diversity and inclusion in action
• Identification and addressing of biases and barriers in the workplace or community
• Tools an

Communicating Post-COVID

We have lost so much communication working from home during COIVD-19. As people start to return to work and leaving the comforts of their home, it is important to get them reacclimated to communicating with their internal customers. In this training, we will cover the four types of communication styles and how to extract value from each of them.

Customer Service For Any Industry

This training will cover Five Essential Skills that will build loyal customers and how your team members can create their daily rituals to keep your customers happy and coming back.

Desirable Durables

This training is for leaders and hiring managers. You know what you want in technical skills when hiring new employees, you know you would like to have soft skills that will fit in with your culture, but would you hire a bunny rabbit to lead a team of lions? In this training, we discuss the durable skills that every team needs to be successful and sustainable.

The 10- Minute Coach

How to Inspire your team through reflective questioning. This training will provide you tools on how to help your team members become self-observers within their departments, open up possibilities to choices and behaviors not considered before in owning their part of the team success.

Essential Tools for Building an Empathic Team

In this training, we will cover what true empathy means and how it should compel you to take action. Some of the concepts we will cover are empathic capacity, listening to understand, creating your empathy impact model, so empathy is built into your conversation, behaviors, relationships, and the memories you leave with your customers.

Misguided Solutions to a Dysfunctional Team

This training is for managers who believe, when the bad apple is gone you will achieve the results you need. The reality of this reframing technique is bad for the entire team. This training will help you pinpoint dysfunction that may be occurring on your team and show you proper solutions to analyze where the dysfunction lies and how to remove it, through training, communication, and your system.

Coach-ability

Being coachable, being able to accept feedback, improve with feedback. Enhancing performance by being coachable.

When Did Collaboration Become a Commodity

Collaboration is just as important as hiring the right people that have the right skills. Are you building title leaders or title-less leaders? This training will teach you how to build a culture of collaboration and other skills you will not find on an average resume.

Compelling Story Telling

Do you have staff that has to engage with partners or present your brand? Are you going through any type of organizational change? This course will help you develop a compelling way to reach your audience and create buy-in. It introduces the struggle, chaos and conflict, and resolve of brilliant presenting.

Past talks (1)
Strategic Thoughts For Business Success
Brilliant Ambitious Executives
Dallas Texas
July 19, 2021
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  • Videos (2)
  • Photos (5)
  • Slides (3)
  • Press information (1)
Kendria Taylor — Empathy & Success
Kendria Taylor — Empathy & Emotional Intelligence.mp4
Empathy for Leadership
Empathy for Leadership
Dallas ISD  Minority Business Keynote
Dallas ISD Minority Business Keynote
State of Women in Business
State of Women in Business
State of Women in Business
State of Women in Business
Aliyah Henry Show
Aliyah Henry Show
Empathy Training for Sales Team
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Books & Articles (3)

Empathy For Squares
CEO's in Dallas
Digitized Learning- Andragogy or Childs Play

Expertise (13)

Leadership
Business
Education
Art of Communication Emotional Intelligence and Empathy Conflict and Feeling Management Soft Skills Development Building a Winning Team boost performance Empathy Leading with empathy Empathy and Design Diversity and Inclusion

Clients

State Farm
Empower Retirement
Tarrant County College
Education Is Freedom
Georgia Power Company
Minnesota Bus Operators Association
Tarrant County
Communities In Schools Dallas Region
Dallas Independent School District
JBG Racial Equity Group

Reviews

Testimonials (3)
  • Kendria connected with the audience through her energy and passion. She did not speak to a PowerPoint presentation but captivated the audience with her well-known facilitation style of Experiential Learning.”-
    Annie Holmes-Partee
  • Effective communication drives high results and this training bridged the gap within my team. My team realized their common goals and were able to work together to accomplish company goals.
    Krystal Brown
    Verified
  • The following is a recommendation for Kendria Taylor and TG8 Solutions Insight. Kendria recently was the keynote for our annual conference in June, her topic was “The Right Bus The Right Time”. We found Kendria on Speaker hub and she responded quickly to our request. Following two years of trying to adapt and overcome the challenges COVID-19 left us all in, we were looking for a speaker that could speak to our attendees about restoring our relationships and moving forward with empathy. Kendria took the time to really listen to our needs to tailor a program for our specific industry. She demonstrated with real examples how when you are busy juggling everything, you can’t focus on anything. Our group rated her presentation as one of the best for the entire conference. Kendria said she specializes in after lunch presentations – which I thought - seriously?!? Those are often the worst ones to try and fill. But she was right. She had the attendees laughing and moving around the room. I highly recommend Kendria and her team. She was highly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you are considering Kendria to speak at your next conference. I highly recommend her and strongly believe you will be happy, excited, and energized by her delivery. Kindest Regards, Shelly Jonas Executive Director MN School Bus Operators Assn. 320-274-8313
    Shelly Jonas
    Verified
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