Taylor Wallace

Feedback from managers, senior leaders, direct reports and collaborators across Guardian Australia, Fairfax Media, LADbible Group APAC and Planna.

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What colleagues say about working with Taylor

Testimonials from former managers, colleagues, senior leaders and direct reports.

Relevant to senior and team leadership roles spanning commercial, creative and marketing operations.

People Leadership

People leadership and team development

Taylor was an exceptional manager and someone who had a huge impact on my professional growth. He struck the perfect balance between being incredibly supportive while constantly challenging my thinking, pushing me to become a stronger strategic thinker and leader.

As we built and led the insights function in Australia, Taylor was a constant source of guidance, trust and encouragement. His ability to empower his team while creating space to learn and grow is something I've always admired. I'm incredibly grateful for his support and would recommend him to anyone looking for an inspiring and thoughtful leader.

Taylor is one of the best senior marketing leaders you will come across. With extensive experience on both the publisher and agency sides of our universe, Tay's understanding of audience dynamics, creative strategy and performance data makes him the guy you want in the room on any commercial brand-building projects.

Tay leads with a lot of heart, making those on his projects feel seen, and inspiring his team to deliver exceptional work. I was incredibly grateful for his poise and support when we worked together at LADbible and hope our paths cross again.

With LADbible Group Australia being my first job after university, Taylor was my introduction to leadership, and I couldn't have asked for a higher standard to be set. Taylor's innovation, guidance, and warmth stood out as unique qualities that made everyone on the team feel valued and heard.

What I personally have admired most in Taylor is his encouragement and genuine care for those he leads. He builds not only your skills but your confidence. Taylor is a fantastic leader, and I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him.

Taylor's resilience and openness are truly inspiring. He's always been a role model for me, and his innovation and mastery of processes is unparalleled.

Commercial Operations

Commercial operations and business building

It was an absolute pleasure working with Taylor as we scaled Planna. He is a diligent, multidisciplinary leader and executor - great work ethic and professionalism.

Taylor has been fundamental to LADbible's growth in Australia and New Zealand since we launched in the region. He was one of the founding team members and was solely responsible for the project management side of the business in the early days, creating our commercial framework that allowed us to go from zero brand partnerships to multi million dollar deals.

His knowledge and skill set is so varied that he adds value to almost all areas of a business. A good leader and a great guy.

Taylor, you're an incredible asset to any team that is lucky enough to have you! Our internal processes were seriously spot on at LADbible Australia, with you very much to thank for them.

Creative Delivery

Creative operations, project management and delivery

During my time working with Taylor, I was always impressed with his high degree of professionalism, his creativity, and his generous and collaborative nature. Taylor was an invaluable part of many a project's success and I would highly recommend him to any future employer.

I've worked with Taylor at both the Guardian Australia and Fairfax Media and, in both environments, have found him to be a consistently creative, innovative, hardworking and diligent professional. Taylor has always been committed to unearthing and exploring every possible creative strategy, execution and solution possible.

From pre-sales and brief response, to project delivery, Taylor has never been afraid to get his hands dirty in order to see a well polished product out the door. I've worked with Taylor for almost five years and have always appreciated his collaborative and investigative spirit. He's been an absolute asset to the team here.

I had the pleasure of working with Taylor for nearly 2 years within the commercial division of Guardian Australia. Taylor was great to work with, really collaborative, a team player, always thinking outside the box on creative solutions for branded partnerships.

But most of all, he's extremely passionate, putting heart and soul into everything, taking great pride in even the smallest tasks. He's extremely loyal to his colleagues, and a great asset to any production team. I hope to work with Taylor again.

I've enjoyed working closely with Taylor during his time at Guardian Australia over the last 3 years and 9 months.

Taylor has been responsible for establishing guidelines and creative resources, setting the creative standard for all of our commercial brand partnerships along with upholding the Guardian's brand identity and style.

Taylor quickly established himself in the role and has since developed into a core member of the Guardian team. He is a hard working team player who always brings his creative, strategic and technical abilities to the role no matter the task.

We were very sorry to see him leave and would have no hesitation in recommending him to prospective employers.

Sydney, Australia

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