Conrad Taylor

Conrad Taylor advises C-levels, senior executives, and high potential professionals. The former CEO understands the loneliness of grappling with sensitive issues of strategy and implementation. He lends an unbiased lens through which to inspect and resolve them. Hands-on experience overcoming pressing obstacles of profitability, growth, and change informs his advice. Leadership and management skills, honed in a variety of industries during that period, enhance his breadth of expertise. Conrad enjoys being a confidential sounding board.

Conrad looks to successes and failures for value-creating insights that can be adapted to new situations. His questioning helps to uncover old thinking patterns, which sometimes stifle effectiveness. Conrad Read more

Conrad Taylor advises C-levels, senior executives, and high potential professionals. The former CEO understands the loneliness of grappling with sensitive issues of strategy and implementation. He lends an unbiased lens through which to inspect and resolve them. Hands-on experience overcoming pressing obstacles of profitability, growth, and change informs his advice. Leadership and management skills, honed in a variety of industries during that period, enhance his breadth of expertise. Conrad enjoys being a confidential sounding board.

Conrad looks to successes and failures for value-creating insights that can be adapted to new situations. His questioning helps to uncover old thinking patterns, which sometimes stifle effectiveness. Conrad is an enabler of "aha" moments.

Conrad has over 35 years of seasoning in General Management, Strategic Planning, Operations, Marketing, and Sales at multinationals, emerging market subsidiaries, and startups. He has held roles of increasing responsibilities resolving issues and fixing problems at companies such as Baxter International, Polaroid, Devices For Vascular Intervention, Diversapack, American Cyanamid, and Carib Drug Company. He is also a Strategy Advisor in the Expert Advisory Network of Frontier Strategy Group. His job descriptions usually have been, “figure it out.”

As CEO, he led the turnaround of privately-held Film Fabricators, a debt-ridden flexible packaging manufacturer near shutdown. The effort realized 350% EBITDA improvement in two years, positioning it for sale at 70% higher than expected valuation. He subsequently drove profitable revenue growth 400% in three years to about $100 million, as a senior executive of the reorganized company. His experiences also include playing a leading role in its integration with other acquisitions to form a vertically-integrated company, Diversapack. Recently renamed PakLab, the new entity served Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Sara Lee, Kraft, Con Agra, and other demanding marquee customers. Over the years, Conrad has earned a reputation for transforming reputed under-performers into over-achievers, and for rebuilding morale in stressful change situations.

Conrad holds a Master's degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is also a graduate of the Goizueta Business School’s Executive Management Program at Emory University. He played soccer for Army in three NCAA playoffs and coached youth teams to several state championships.

Conrad Taylor is also the author of an award-winning memoir, PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance. The paperback edition is on display at The Smithsonian Institute 's Anacostia Library.

Engagements are typically on a retainer basis plus expenses. Otherwise, engagements are $400/hour plus expenses.  

Confidential - Startup to Mid-sized (2 to 1,000 employees). Industries include:

• Government Services
• eCommerce (Digital Content Exchange)
• Plastics Packaging (Product Development, Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales)
• Industrial Products (Marketing and Distribution)
• Medical Products (Research, Development, Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales)
• Healthcare Services (Development, Marketing and Sales)

Confidential - Startup to Mid-sized (2 to 1,000 employees). Industries include:

• Government Services  
• eCommerce (Digital Content Exchange)
• Plastics Packaging (Product Development, Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales)
• Industrial Products (Marketing and Distribution)
• Medical Products (Research, Development, Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales)
• Healthcare Services (Development, Marketing and Sales)