Anthony Taylor

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Anthony Taylor founded SME Strategy after a business partner stole $100,000 from him—transforming that betrayal into a mission ensuring no organization suffers from preventable strategic disasters. As managing partner and lead facilitator, he's spent seven years working with everyone from small nonprofits to foreign governments, developing the "Align Strategy Development" process that prioritizes team empowerment over consultant dependency. Taylor authored two books including "Alignment," hosts the Strategy and Leadership Podcast reaching readers in every country globally, and created the Strategic Planning Starter Kit to democratize strategic planning knowledge. His philosophy challenges traditional consulting: "It is not your strategic plan, it's your team's strategic plan." Self-taught through relentless practice ("I just made up being a strategic planner"), he begged for board positions and worked free until mastering the craft. Taylor's frameworks—like the three-priority discipline and V-MOST model—emerge from facilitating hundreds of sessions, proving expertise often comes from necessity and failure rather than pedigree credentials.