About Angela Taylor

Champion.
Executive.
Listener.

Two-time NCAA champion. Former WNBA President & General Manager. Executive coach, entrepreneur, board chair, and broadcaster. Across every seat she's held, one truth kept proving itself — the leaders people trust most are the ones who listen. So she built a framework to make it teachable.

Angela Taylor
Angela TaylorFounder, Lead with Listening
Why I built this

The moment it clicked.

For most of my career, I thought my edge was strategy. Then, after a session one day, a CEO pulled me aside. Her team kept asking for me, she said — not because of the frameworks, but because in the room with me, they felt seen and heard.

That was the moment it clicked. The thing I'd done instinctively my whole life — really listening — was the rarest leadership skill in the building.

We learn early that talking is how you lead. We're rewarded for it in school, in sports, in every meeting. Almost no one gets that same validation for listening. And I'd watched it play out the same way everywhere I'd been — in corporate boardrooms, on the sidelines, and at my own dinner table.

So I built Lead with Listening to give that skill what it has always deserved: a name, a method, and the recognition it's been missing.

The best leaders aren't the best talkers. They're the best listeners.
Angela TaylorFounder, Lead with Listening
Angela Taylor delivering a keynote
Angela delivering a keynote · 2025 ROSE Awards
The credentials

The receipts.

NCAA National Champion & team captain, Stanford
20+Years leading in professional sports
ICFCertified executive coach (Co-Active trained)
MBANYU Stern · B.A. Economics, Stanford
President & GM, WNBA Atlanta Dream WNBA League Office Washington Mystics Minnesota Lynx ESPN · ACC Network · FS1 · Pac-12 Analyst Clients incl. Charles Schwab, Dolby, VMware
Beyond the title

A builder, on and off the court.

Angela doesn't just advise from the sidelines. She builds — companies, communities, and the next generation of leaders.

Angela Taylor at the Taylor LEAD Foundation gala

The Taylor LEAD Foundation

Co-founder and president of a foundation uplifting the next generation through scholarships, mentorship, and the statewide iWIN Sports initiative — including the Change Make*Hers Gala — elevating girls and women in sports and leadership across Idaho.

Angela Taylor as a basketball analyst

Entrepreneur & Founder

Co-founder of The Dignitas Agency and principal of Tindall Avenue Coaching, founder of NetWorks Sports Consulting, and creator of Indulge Boise Food Tours — building businesses, and helping others grow theirs.

Board Chair & Community Leader

Chair of the Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Board, vice-chair of The Salvation Army–Boise, and a director on boards across healthcare, education, tourism, and economic development — leading the institutions she believes in.

Angela Taylor
In her own words
When we live with joyful purpose, we don't just elevate our own lives — we inspire others to discover the joy in their journey.
— Angela F. Taylor

A proud native of Mountain Home, Idaho, Angela holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford and an MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business. When she's not coaching, building, or on a broadcast, you'll find her traveling, golfing, reading, or in the garden — living the joyful purpose she helps others find.

This is why I built it

See how you listen.

The work starts with awareness. Take the free Listening Audit — the same framework Angela has spent a career proving — and find the one move that changes what people tell you.