D. Wayne Taylor

Dr. D. Wayne Taylor is an internationally recognized educator, consultant, facilitator, keynote speaker, and strategic counsel in the areas of health policy, strategic management, governance, service excellence, and business-government relations. He has over thirty years' experience working with managers in healthcare delivery, public health, biopharmaceuticals, and health policy planning in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Third World. Dr. Taylor served as the founding Director of the M.B.A. Programme in Health Services Management at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University from 1986 to 2009. Before joining McMaster he worked as a senior executive in the private and public sectors as well as a political assistant. A highly regarded instructor, Dr. Taylor has been named 'Professor of the Year' a record nine times at three different universities. In 2005 Dr. Taylor was appointed the Founding Director of the Health Leadership Institute. He retired from McMaster University in 2013. Dr. Taylor’s current research focuses on the impact that demographic realities will have on health and social services over the next 20 years, as well as the economic impact of such realities. President of his own private consulting practice, Dr. Taylor's clients include many of the leading health care organizations, governments, politicians, and Fortune 1000 companies in Canada, the United States and Europe. He has chaired and served on a number of Boards of Directors, and chaired two commissions of inquiry. In 1986, Dr. Taylor was part of a team that received an American Presidential Commendation for their work in public health. In 2009 he was awarded his Fellowship in the Canadian Institute of Management, was inducted as a lifetime member of the Global Who’s Who, and was appointed the Founding Executive Director of The Cameron Institute, a not-for-profit think tank specializing in economic, health and social policy issues.