About Island B
Our People and Purpose
Island B is a consultancy founded by Dr Trudi Taylor, with the purpose of equipping leaders, teams and organisations with the courage, insights and practices to transform business performance and their experience of work.
Dr Trudi Taylor
PCC PhD MSc BSc (Hons)
Island B is led by Trudi and originally founded on her expertise in Professional Leadership and Team Coaching, Human Factors, Human and Organisational Performance and Transformational Change in large complex working environments where humans are major contributors to system performance outcomes.
She works through her core values of integrity, compassion, making a difference, courage and growth. She brings her purpose to life at work by creating, delivering and sharing ways to make the most of the potential in leaders, teams and organisations looking to do great things.
Dr Trudi Taylor
PCC PhD MSc BSc (Hons)
Island B is led by Trudi and originally founded on her expertise in Coaching, Human Factors, Human and Organisational Performance and transformational change in large complex working environments where humans are major contributors to system performance outcomes.
We see this as the powerful blend of understanding and developing individuals and teams to make the most of their potential coupled with learning and improvement of the context and systems in which work takes place. A whole sociotechnical systems approach.
Powerful Conversation is the Glue
As a company we put our brains, experience and energy behind trying to make it easy to do the right thing and helping to make the complex less complicated.
Powerful conversation is at the heart of what we do, in both analysis and intervention, to create and sustain meaningful change. We see this as the glue and filler that enables all the thinking, work and learning to date to bear fruit in a way that brings about significantly better results for the future.
Because large complex systems often require a range of expertise and perspectives, we work closely with trusted collaborators from different disciplines and experience. This is ever expanding and includes those from business, psychology, communications, technology and academia, to ensure our approach is always up to date with current thinking and best practice wherever we can find it.
That is why we surround ourselves with passionate, skilled, and curious Islanders.
But more than anything we are people who love supporting other people. Whatever discipline and background we come from, we get to use our skills and knowledge to walk alongside incredible people doing challenging work and support them to get more from the hours and effort spent working each day.
Meet the Islanders:
And we keep adding interesting collaborations…
“A fresh and pragmatic approach in assisting senior teams to embed the required cultural change to achieve real and sustained improvement in this critical area”