Eve Wright Taylor, vice president and associate general counsel for the Miami HEAT and the AmericanAirlines Arena, is no ordinary executive. This big picture-thinking, calculated risk-taking sports industry pro has purposefully navigated her way to extraordinary success in one of the most male-dominated industries in the world-professional sports. And she did it without compromising her personal style or femininity.
 
Taylor's meteoric rise through the ranks of corporate America and the professional sports industry was no easy feat. To realize such extraordinary achievement, she says she had to cultivate and pursue her own personal passions rather than some pre-determined definition of successa philosophy far easier in theory than in execution.
 
With this in mind, Taylor now speaks and consults nationally to assist leaders, professionals and individuals assess their lives and careers and make game-changing adjustments to help them win. She draws from her own life stories and lessons, she says she has walked the walk, blazed new trails, and gotten considerable mileage from best practices that gathered while climbing the corporate ladder and breaking through barriers.
 
Taylor now speaks on a range of topics including:
 
* Key Ways to Create a Purposeful, Passion-Driven Life passion sparking strategies and sure-fire passion-killers
* Why Passion is the True Measure of Success how living a life with intention and purpose trumps profit, professional accolades, and work/life balance
* Top Signs You're Nearing a Breaking Point  when it's time to take pause and shift gears
* Turning Cattiness into Collaboration tips for navigating challenging situations with other women colleagues and peers
* The Tipping Point why many business women are one success away from a breakdown
* The Woman's Playbook for Success how to achieve in male-dominated fields
* The Pink Power Suit - balancing femininity with bulldog tenacity-in everything from attire to negotiations
* Opportunity Spotting seizing open doors even when they seem invisible
* Collaboration Strategies cut the learning curve by aligning with others
* Role Play maintaining individuality while playing by the rules in corporate America
 
Results don't happen all by themselves, Taylor says. Whether in your business or personal life, success requires finesse, purpose and performance fueled by a positive and open-minded outlook. This is the art and science of Passion Sparking,' which requires defining what having it all means to you. This is not a set standard, but rather is a personal vision that's in no way limited to professional achievement. True success is defined when you are realizing and living a life of passion one with purpose and intention.
 
Taylor's track record ranges from the corporate law firm setting to the Ladies Professional Golf Association and a member team of the National Basketball Association. In March 2012 she was named among SportsBusiness Journal's Forty Under 40. She is a graduate of DePauw University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Business. She earned her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Indiana University School of Law and participated in the Consortium Program at Howard University School of Law. Learn more at www.evewright.us/home.php.

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