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Dr. Kenneth Anderson Taylor serves as an Associate Professor of the Practice, the Director of Outreach and Professional Development within the Bush School’s Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy and is the holder of the Younger-Carter Professorship. Prior to landing at Texas A&M University, Dr. Taylor led the Nonprofit Leadership Studies degree program at Murray State University in Kentucky.

Dr. Taylor’s primary faculty responsibilities encompass teaching a variety of nonprofit management and leadership theory courses for graduate and undergraduate students. In his role with the Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Dr. Taylor enjoys working in Texas and beyond where he gets to utilize his decades of training and partner with nonprofit leaders on a variety of professional development and research opportunities.

Dr. Taylor earned his MBA in Management from Bellarmine University’s Rubel School of Business and holds a BA in Sociology from the same institution. His PhD in Leadership Studies is from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, and his dissertation research explored the link between leader behavior within nonprofit organizations and its impact on employee job satisfaction.

Dr. Taylor has more than twenty years of leader experience inside, and on behalf of, nonprofit organizations. His self-defined career highlights include the twelve years he served the mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the largest youth mentoring nonprofit organization in the world, and his five-year career as a nonprofit consultant. Dr. Taylor is a Credentialed Mediator in the state of Texas.

Years ago, when Dr. Taylor set his sights on transitioning into academia with a vision of developing tomorrow’s nonprofit and public service leaders, he put the Bush School of Government and Public Service at the top of his list. He defines landing at Texas A&M University as an honor and aspires toward “contributing to the school’s commitment to President George H. W. Bush’s philosophy of educating principled leaders for public service."