Kenny Taylor

Associate Professor of the Practice, Director of Outreach and Professional Development at the Center for Nonprofits & Philanthro

Dr. Kenneth Anderson Taylor serves as an Associate Professor of the Practice, the Director of Outreach and Professional Development within its Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy and holds the Younger & Carter Distinguished Professorship.

Dr. Taylor’s primary faculty responsibilities encompass teaching a variety of nonprofit management and leadership theory courses for graduate 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 dissertation research explored the link between leader behavior within nonprofit organizations and its impact on employee job satisfaction.

Before arriving to College Station, Dr. Taylor served at Murray State University in Kentucky and held the appointment of Academic Program Director & Assistant Professor within its College of Health Science & Human Services. While there he founded and launched the Nonprofit Leadership Studies degree program which was formerly a youth and nonprofit leadership undergraduate offering.

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 consecutive years he served the mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the five years he spent as a self-employed nonprofit consultant. Dr. Taylor is also a State of Texas Credentialed Mediator.

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."