Laurie Taylor - Co-founder - Origin Institute
Laurie is the co-founder of the Origin Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She and her partner, James Fischer, started Origin Institute in February, 2002 with the intent to "be the catalyst for business revelation'. Origin offers their Seven Stages of Growth as the foundation for business owners to predict, adapt and focus on the needs of their business based on its stage of growth for accelerated profitability. Laurie is well experienced in the day-to-day challenges facing CEOs and Executive Leaders. She has 25 years of management experience and a successful track record of managing a high growth, consistently profitable local enterprise (from 250K revenue and 5 employees to 12 million revenue and 100 employees). Laurie is adept at creating a values-based enterprise culture, managing enterprise growth through effectively controlling costs and driving profits, building and improving internal communications, designing and implementing an effective customer service program, selecting and training a powerful team-based management system, reducing turnover and implementing precision hiring systems.
