Ross Taylor

Managing Director at Miles Kelly at Miles Kelly Publishing
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Alva, Scotland, United Kingdom, UK

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Charlotte Smith

I had the pleasure of working with Ross in 2012-2014 whilst he was Commercial Director at Igloo Books. He immediately shone to me as very passionate, hard working and dedicated member of the team. That coupled with his extensive commercial knowledge of the publishing industry and his incredible financial expertise makes him a valuable asset to any business.

Alex Mckie

Ross has a brilliant mind for data. Not just manipulating it but pulling out key trends and insights. He was also pivotal in the development of my own excel and analysis techniques. A fantastic man to work with who will also make you laugh. An asset to any team.

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Credentials

  • Being an Effective Team Member
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    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Coaching and Developing Employees
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    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Cultivating a Growth Mindset
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    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Developing Managers in Organizations
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    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Empathy for Sales Professionals
    LinkedIn
    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Find Your Passion: How Padma Lakshmi Found Hers
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    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Human Resources: Leadership and Strategic Impact
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    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Leading with Stories
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    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Marketing on Instagram
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    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Using Your Mind to Change Your Brain
    LinkedIn
    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Facilities Management: Social Distancing and PPE
    LinkedIn
    Oct, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Radical Candor (Blinkist Summary)
    LinkedIn
    Oct, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Field Sales Management
    LinkedIn
    Sep, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Jodi Glickman on Pitching Yourself
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    Sep, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Marketing: Customer Segmentation
    LinkedIn
    Sep, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • The Digital Transformation of Learning
    LinkedIn
    Sep, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Ways to Build a Winning Team: Trust, Freedom, and Play
    LinkedIn
    Sep, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Growth Hacking Foundations
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Storytelling for Business Video
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    May, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Advertising on Instagram
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • B2B Marketing on LinkedIn
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Be More Productive: Take Small Steps, Have Big Goals
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Brad Feld on Validating Your Startup Idea
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Business Process Improvement
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Camtasia: Interactive Learning
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Color Trends
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Consulting Foundations: The Concept of Value
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Design Thinking: Customer Experience
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Growing Your Small Business with LinkedIn
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Growth Hacking Tips
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • How to Project Vocal Confidence
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Icebreakers for Teams, Meetings, and Groups
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Income Statement (P&L) and Cash Flow Explained
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Learning Canva
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Learning Shopify
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Listening to Customers
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Making Better Decisions by Thinking in Bets
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Managing Logistics
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Marketing Foundations: Competitive Market Analysis
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Marketing on Facebook: Managing a Company Page
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Persuasive Coaching
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Process Improvement Foundations
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Retail Sales Management
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Sales Operations
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Sales: Closing Strategies
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Sales: Handling Objections
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Selling Your Small Business
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Social Media Marketing: ROI
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Soon Yu on Creating Timeless Brands
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Systems Thinking
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Unlock Your Team's Creativity
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Using Neuroscience for More Effective L&D
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Video Strategies for High Engagement
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    Apr, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Learning Mailchimp
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    Mar, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Craft Your Sales Pitch with Competitive Differentiation
    LinkedIn
    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Creating Your Sales Process
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    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Following Up after a Sales Meeting
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    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Negotiating: A Toolkit for Advancing Your Interests
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    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Sales Prospecting
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    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Selling Strategies that Boost Customer Acquisition
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    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Selling to Executives
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    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Selling with Stories, Part 1: What Makes a Great Story?
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    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • B2B Marketing Foundations
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    May, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Marketing to Millennials
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    May, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Finance Foundations
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    Mar, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Financial Accounting Part 1
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    Mar, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Managerial Economics
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    Mar, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Managing Stress
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    Mar, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Mindfulness
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    Mar, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Note-Taking for Business Professionals
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    Mar, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Running a Profitable Business: Understanding Cash Flow
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    Mar, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Writing a Marketing Plan
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    Feb, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • 2-Minute Tips for Marketing
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Advanced Branding
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Balancing Multiple Roles as a Leader
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Becoming Indistractable
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Competitive and Market Analysis for Product Managers
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Create A Brand Strategy
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Creating a Culture of Change
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Creating a Culture of Learning
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Cultivating Mental Agility
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Ecommerce: Scoping Projects
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Emerging Leader Foundations
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Leading with Innovation
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Leading with Vision
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Learning Agility
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Learning to Write Marketing Copy
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Managing Brand Reputation
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Marketing on Instagram
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Metrics for Product Managers
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Motivating and Engaging Employees
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Organizational Culture
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    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Product Management First Steps
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Social Selling with Twitter
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Storytelling for Advertising Campaigns
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Transitioning to Product Management
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Writing Ad Copy
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Becoming Head of Sales: Developing Your Playbook
    LinkedIn
    Nov, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Breaking Out of a Rut
    LinkedIn
    Nov, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Building Self-Confidence
    LinkedIn
    Nov, 2018
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Miles Kelly Publishing
    • United Kingdom
    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Managing Director at Miles Kelly
      • Apr 2021 - Present

  • Laughing Lobster
    • United Kingdom
    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • Director of Laughing Lobster
      • 2019 - Sep 2021

  • Imagine That
    • United Kingdom
    • Book Publishing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Operations Director
      • 2018 - 2019

  • Imagine That
    • United Kingdom
    • Book Publishing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of Operations
      • 2016 - 2017

  • Igloo
    • Commercial Director
      • 2009 - 2016

      Commercial Director of a £35m company at age 35. Commercial Director of a £35m company at age 35.

  • Best Deal Insurance
    • Northampton, United Kingdom
    • Independent Financial Advisor
      • 2006 - 2009

      • As a Financial Adviser I provided Face to Face Financial advice to clients. • This role was 100% Commission based. • In August 2008, at the height of the Credit Crunch, I wrote over 1% of the entire Mortgage business conducted in the UK. • I specialized in the Buy to Let market. This specialization led me to make my own investments, with my Property Portfolio currently worth c £850,000. • As a Financial Adviser I provided Face to Face Financial advice to clients. • This role was 100% Commission based. • In August 2008, at the height of the Credit Crunch, I wrote over 1% of the entire Mortgage business conducted in the UK. • I specialized in the Buy to Let market. This specialization led me to make my own investments, with my Property Portfolio currently worth c £850,000.

  • Coral
    • United Kingdom
    • Gambling Facilities and Casinos
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • General Manager
      • 2001 - 2006

      • I hold the record for the fastest time ever taken for a person to rise from Trainee Manager to General Manager in the history of the Gala Group. • My last appointment was to Gala Luton where I had 55 staff reporting to me and full P&L control of a £5m+ turnover business. • I successfully achieved budget in all appointments and indeed smashed all previous records at both Gala Luton and Gala Kings Lynn. • Through my successes I was asked to become a member of the National Marketing Forum. This role gave me great influence over the multi-million National Re-investment budget. Show less

Education

  • Publishing Scotland
    Finance in Publishing
    2013 - 2013
  • Dundee University
    BSc Hons, Chemistry
    1996 - 2001
  • Lornshill Academy, Alloa
    1991 - 1996

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