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Sponsors
Applied Brilliance is made possible through the generous support of these leading brands:

Bombardier Flexjet

Steelcase

Mohawk

Haworth

Shaw Contract Group

Comitti

Wathne


Junior Fellows Sponsors
Participation in Applied Brilliance for a select group of architects and designers under the age of 35 is generously underwritten by these sponsorship partners:

Teknion


Media Partners

Architect

contract

I.D.


In Association With

USGBC


Educational Providers

IDCEC

AIA




Jim TaylorDr. Jim Taylor,
Futurist and Vice Chairman, Harrison Group


Jim Taylor's career has included lead marketing positions at Ernst & Young, Gateway Computers, Iomega Corp. and the No. 2 marketing position at E.F. Hutton. He also previously worked as CEO of Yankelovich, Skelly & White and headed up Hill & Knowlton's flagship New York office. He has served as a marketing and branding consultant to many of the world's leading corporations in categories as diverse as accounting, toys, automobiles, pharmaceuticals and weapons development. Among these companies are General Motors, Audi, Sony, American Express, The AmericanRed Cross, Pfizer, Shearing-Plough, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Mont Blanc, DeBeers, General Electric, Mattel, Wal-Mart, J.C. Penney, Pepsi, Coca-Cola and many media and not-for-profit organizations. He is especially proud to have been chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of America's five leading business futurists and selected as Brandweek's Marketer of the Year. He co-authored The 500 Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next and The Visionary's Handbook.

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Board of Advisors

Ros Brandt,
President , BrandtResources

Reed Kroloff,
Director of Cranbook Academy of Art and Art Museum; Campus Architect

Julie Lasky,
Editor, ID Magazine

Lelei Lelaulu,
CEO, Counterpart

Dr. Jim Taylor,
Vice Chairman, The Harrison Group


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