Transformational Leadership Coach
Speaker | Retreat Facilitator | Author | Soul-Somatic Practitioner
About Joy
Joy Taylor is a transformational leadership coach, speaker, facilitator, author, and soul-somatic practitioner dedicated to helping individuals awaken their gifts, align with their purpose, and create meaningful lives, businesses, and relationships.
With more than 30 years of experience in personal growth, professional development, entrepreneurship, wellness, and the healing arts, Joy has guided thousands of individuals through profound personal and professional transformation. Her work bridges practical strategy and deep spiritual wisdom, helping people move from overwhelm to clarity, from self-doubt to self-trust, and from aspiration to aligned action.
A former Director of the Women's Business Center of Northern California and former CEO of Lead Online Academy, Joy has trained entrepreneurs, leaders, coaches, healers, and visionaries worldwide. Today, she leads transformational coaching programs, retreats, workshops, online communities, and leadership development experiences through the Center for Transformational Leadership.
Joy is also the author of Inspired: 7 Wisdoms for Living a Soul-Inspired Life, endorsed by thought leaders including John Gray, Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, Dr. Sue Morter, Warren Farrell, and others.
Her unique gift is helping people bridge soul and strategy, bringing together intuition and action, feminine wisdom and effective productivity, spiritual growth and real-world results.
Based in Mount Shasta, California, Joy and her husband, Gavin Taylor, share a life grounded in love, nature, community, and the knowing that the process of awakening in new ways is to be embraced and celebrated.
Awakening is meant to be lived—not just learned.
Joy brings this exact philosophy to her clients and audiences worldwide, blending profound spiritual wisdom with actionable leadership strategies. Whether she is guiding leaders through transformational coaching, hosting intimate retreats, or addressing global summits, her work is designed to spark deep reflection and inspire aligned action.
Explore her signature topics below to see the powerful themes she brings to both her private clients and live audiences:
Speaking Topics & Signature Talks
The Missing Bridge: Bringing Soul and Strategy Together
The Art of Self-Trust: Living an Intuitive Life
Awakening Your Gifts: Answering Your Call to Serve
The Rise of Integrated Feminine Leadership
Credentials
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Author of Inspired: 7 Wisdoms of a Soul-Inspired Life
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30+ years in personal growth, leadership development, and transformational coaching
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Former Director, Women's Business Center of Northern California
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Speaker, facilitator, retreat leader, and online educator
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Creator of the Business Soul Map™ Framework and Guidebook
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Co-Founder, Center for Transformational Leadership
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Licensed massage therapist, certified yoga teacher, certified Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner
Audiences
Joy speaks to:
- Leadership and professional development conferences
- Women's leadership events
- Entrepreneur and business communities
- Wellness and personal growth organizations
- Spiritual and conscious living communities and churches
- Retreats, summits, and transformational gatherings
- Coach and practitioner training programs
- Relationship and personal development audiences
Available For
- Podcasts
- Keynote Presentations
- Retreats
- Workshops
- Leadership Development Programs
- Women's Conferences
- Entrepreneur Events
- Virtual Summits
- Facilitator Trainings
- Panel Discussions
Suggested Podcast Interview Questions
- What does it mean to live a soul-inspired life?
- Why do so many successful people feel disconnected from themselves, and how can they find their way back home?
- How can we strengthen self-trust and learn to listen to our inner wisdom?
- What is the relationship between spirituality and effective leadership?
- How can entrepreneurs build businesses that are both financially successful and deeply aligned?
- What have you learned about feminine leadership after three decades of working with women leaders and entrepreneurs?
- How can life transitions move beyond sources of suffering and become catalysts for awakening?
- What are the most important lessons you've learned about love, partnership, and conscious relationships?
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Words from Fellow Leaders & Visionaries
"Joy's words and spirit exude possibility. You don't just hear inspiration; you feel inspired."
~ Dr. Warren Farrell, #1 Best-selling Author, Educator
"Joy's is a powerful speaker and trainer, and she brings knowledge, inspiration, and caring to everything she does."
~ Marci Shimoff, #1 Best-selling Author, Speaker
"You have a high energy level that allows me to come more alive, and you are incredibly down-to-earth and pragmatic."
~ Ann Walsh Henderson, Founder Westfield Academy
"I love working with you, Joy. You are just so practical. I need the steps and the spiritual. You deliver both."
~ Julie Starr, Possibility Life Coach
Also Available: Joy & Gavin Taylor
Joy and her husband, Gavin Taylor, offer transformational workshops, retreats, and presentations focused on conscious relationships, communication, personal growth, intimacy, partnership, and spiritual awakening.
Popular topics include:
- Conscious Relationship as a Path of Awakening
- The Sacred Stages of Intimate Relationship
- Love, Communication, and Emotional Safety
- Evolving Our Masculine & Feminine Energies
- The 7 Core Dynamics of Healthy, Thriving Intimacy
- Bringing Your A-Game to the One You Love
Let’s keep the conversation going...
Newsletters come with gentle insights, practical tools, and grounded reflections designed to support you in living, loving, and leading your life in alignment with soul.
Blog Posts for a Soul-Inspired Life
Here, you’ll find Joy's reflections and personal stories, written to nourish your inner life and offer insights into love, leadership, and the process of moving deeper into who you truly are.
Get Inspired
From the book: “Inspiration will take you where you want to go. It will provide more pleasure and peace than you could have imagined. It will show up in ways better than what you have dreamed and more playfully than your mind could have directed.
The kind of inspiration that comes from your soul center requires a paradigm shift in how you see the world and yourself. Indeed, the path of soul inspiration is right in front of us, but so few of us see it. Even fewer act on it.”
~ Joy
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