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Rod C. Taylor
Casual - Other Teaching Staff, Continuing Studies
BioRod C. Taylor, Ph.D. is an award-winning educator, scholar, author, and the founder and CEO of Performance Learning Concepts, a leadership-development firm trusted by global organizations including Deloitte, Nissan North America, Blackstone, and Morningstar. With more than three decades of experience in teaching, leadership training, and public speaking, Rod has taught at Stanford University, Indiana University, and the Honors College at Tennessee State University.
PLC’s work focuses on the human side of professional effectiveness—how individuals build credibility, communicate clearly, think creatively, collaborate effectively, and lead through complexity. Drawing on advanced studies in education, rhetoric, literature, psychology, and philosophy, Rod brings an interdisciplinary perspective to professional growth across areas including strategic communication, innovation and creativity, leadership, and change, helping professionals translate expertise into confident performance in high-stakes environments.
Blending insights from the arts, human behavior, and organizational strategy, Rod designs highly experiential workshops and energetic keynotes on Communication, Design Thinking, Innovation & Creativity, Growth Mindset, and Change Leadership. He has served as a Design Faculty Fellow at the Paris-Est Design School and as an Artist-in-Residence and strategic leadership consultant for the College of Entertainment and Arts at Lipscomb University in Nashville.
A lifelong musician, Rod lives in Nashville, TN, and has performed as a bassist with artists such as Victor Wooten, the Warren Brothers, Jenee Fleenor, Chuck Rainey, Krista Detor, and Cindy Morgan. -
Ryan Taylor, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Taylor is a fellowship-trained neurologist and assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Memory Disorders Division. He provides patient care at the Stanford Center for Memory Disorders.
His areas of expertise include diagnosing and treating illnesses that impair thinking, memory, behavior, and speech. Dr. Taylor’s clinical focus includes Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body disease, frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia, posterior cortical atrophy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, autoimmune encephalitis and other rapidly progressive dementias. He works with patients and families to provide diagnostic clarity and individualized treatment plans.
Dr. Taylor’s academic and research interests combine clinical and scientific understandings of dementia with a philosophical inquiry into the structure of conscious experience. His original clinical research includes diverse topics, such as advances in diagnosing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the clinical characterization of adult-onset hereditary dementias. Dr. Taylor has published work instrumental in identifying the potential role of fentanyl in a syndrome of sudden onset amnesia that emerged during the opioid crisis.
He has presented research at the American Academy of Neurology and published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences and Methods in Molecular Biology. He has also published a chapter on the diagnosis and treatment of frontotemporal dementia and was a reviewer for Neurocase.
Dr. Taylor is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He has taught residents and medical students clinical skills, neuroanatomy, neuro-imaging, and other subjects. He also has delivered Grand Rounds presentations on dementia, epilepsy, and pediatric neurology. -
Hamdi Tchelepi
Max Steineke Professor and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent research activities: (1) model and simulate unstable miscible and immiscible fluid flow in heterogeneous porous media, (2) develop multiscale numerical solution algorithms for coupled mechanics and multiphase fluid flow in large-scale subsurface formations, and (3) develop stochastic solution methods that quantify the uncertainty associated with predictions of fluid-structure dynamics in porous media.
