Michèle Taylor is committed to equality and diversity work as a pathway to developing organisations as learning cultures. To this end, she works with organisations and individuals as a trainer, consultant, evaluator and facilitator. 

Michèle has over 25 years experience working in the arts and disability sector and is herself a disabled person. This informs her approach to learning, to evaluation and to inclusion.

She set up her own business in 1992 to work at that edge where disability and ‘the mainstream’ meet, training and advising organisations on making their practices, policies and premises inclusive of disabled people. Since then, her practice has broadened out to take good account of changes in the legislative approach and in recognition of equality and diversity principles as a whole.

Michèle is a qualified psychotherapist and accredited coach as well as an experienced trainer and facilitator.

She is a Registered Member of IEDP, having been one of the very first cohort to achieve this accrediation, and has recently re-registered to keep her membership up to date.

Clients have included Arts Council and local authorities as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House, Universities including Nottingham and Gothenberg and the University of the Arts in London, St John’s College in Nottingham, the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute and Cultural Heritage Without Borders where she is involved in supporting Museums in the Western Balkans to develop policy and practice around disability.