Advancing How America Creates Opportunity
Steve Taylor writes, speaks, and works with leaders to build pathways to prosperity through work, education, community engagement, and empowerment-focused public policy.
America does not lack talent. It lacks connected pathways.
Too many people are asked to navigate fragmented systems that weren't built as a coherent map. Steve’s work helps leaders connect education, work, community engagement, and public policy into practical routes toward dignity, contribution, and prosperity.
Steve’s work focuses on a central question:
How can America build better pathways from dependency to self-sufficiency, from self-sufficiency to prosperity, and from prosperity to human flourishing?
Answering that question requires stronger connections among the people who shape opportunity: educators, business and community leaders, philanthropists, and policymakers.
TOGETHER WE CLIMB
A community-driven approach to break the cycle of poverty and build prosperity.
In Together We Climb, Dr. Steve Taylor and Jason Janz offer a community-driven approach to breaking the cycle of poverty and building prosperity.
Their book introduces two practical frameworks:
The Mountain Model: A map of the climb from poverty to prosperity.
The Navigation Approach: A relational strategy built on proximity, possibility, and pathway.
Together, these frameworks offer a map and a method, reflecting a core ED2WORK belief: lasting opportunity requires connecting policy, practice, work, education, community, and human flourishing.
Strategies for building opportunity.
Steve’s consulting and advisory work is carried out through ED2WORK®, a strategy platform helping philanthropies, nonprofits, and civic leaders connect policy and practice to expand economic opportunity.
EDUCATION
Building Pathways Beyond the Four-Year Degree
A practical look at how work, education, and policy can connect more people to skills and opportunity.
WORKFORCE
Skills-Based Hiring and the Future of Talent
Degree requirements are only one part of the problem. Better hiring systems need better signals and stronger pathways.
ECONOMIC MOBILITY
From Poverty Management to Human Flourishing
The goal is not simply to manage hardship, but to help people climb toward agency, contribution, and prosperity.