Andre Taylor

André Taylor is an award-winning business leader and one of today’s most dynamic voices on the subject of personal and business success. He’s a dynamic speaker and the founder of several successful and interesting businesses. He also counsels and coaches growing companies and the entrepreneurs behind them to help them flourish.

André started his management career on Wall Street working with financial information services companies such as Dow-Jones Telerate and Reuters where he led the company’s emerging television division in the late 1980s. He has a brilliant record as a strategist and dealmaker and was responsible for many groundbreaking deals and alliances during his tenure.

In 1990 he began focusing full time on his entrepreneurial ventures and founded Interactive Sports, one of the country’s leading sports media companies. Throughout the 1990s, Interactive Sports led the market by creating technology tools for sports teams, interactive services for sports arenas, unique content and services for sports fans, and a collection of leading media brands including Urban Sports Network, Women’s Sports Channel. More than 3 million people a day at one time relied on content from Interactive Sports.

Later André Taylor started Taylor Insight Group, offering products and services in personal development, and executive and organizational leadership, and The Taylor Grand Company, a unit aimed specifically at guiding firms seeking to target affluent consumers and professionals. He’s committed to helping other entrepreneurs benefit from the lessons he’s learned in creating and building high-value ventures from scratch.

André writes and lectures extensively on the subject of entrepreneurship and business growth, He’s the author of the business-building system, 81 Lessons of The Natural Entrepreneur and a complete catalog of audio, video, and workbook titles. His clients include many of the world’s most prestigious organizations including Microsoft, SAP, ERA Real Estate and others. He’s been featured in wide range of national media such as Advertising Age, Brandweek, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fox Television. The regional business journal, Crain’s New York Business named Mr. Taylor one of New York City’s top minority executives and Black Enterprise Magazine named Mr. Taylor its 2002, Business Innovator of the Year.

Mr. Taylor is particularly committed to helping young people from modest backgrounds successfully move into corporate America and entrepreneurship. He serves as the Entrepreneur In Residence at New York City’s LaGuardia Community College and is a member of the foundation’s Board of Directors. Mr. Taylor is also a founding member and advisor to Business For Youth a non-profit organization recognizing achievement and leadership in young people.