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From Wedding Cakes to the CFO Seat

Taylor grew up in a tiny town in northeast Kansas and went to high school in Marysville. She has always worked. At 11 she was on the cleanup crew at the local movie theater, and by high school she was working at a vet clinic, sure she was going to be a zoo veterinarian.

At Kansas State she started a licensed baking business out of her apartment, making wedding cakes and pies and selling at farmers markets between wedding seasons. It was her first LLC, and it taught her the part of business she still loves most: tweaking a recipe until it made more profit without changing what made it good. She switched from the pre-vet track to food operations and business management, worked full time at Valley Vet Supply selling vaccines to cattle ranchers, and finished her degree in three years.

After moving to the Kansas City area, Taylor took a front office job at a boutique commercial real estate and development firm. Within a few months they had her licensed in real estate, and over the next several years she became their financial lead. She kept the books for 30 to 40 LLCs at once, worked on redevelopment, ground-up, and hotel projects, and even ran the books and operations for the owners' cattle business. Along the way she earned an MBA in accounting and finance from the University of Saint Mary.

Then the firm brought in a fractional CFO. Taylor had never heard the term. She was excited to learn the job from him, and realized within days that she was already doing all of it. She started her own fractional CFO practice in 2021, spent a year as business director for an electrical contractor, and joined CEO Finance Academy in 2025.

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How Taylor Works With Owners

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What Taylor Works On With Clients

The first 8 to 12 weeks of an engagement are weekly, hour-long working sessions while Taylor learns the business inside and out. After that she meets with owners every other week to build out the KPIs, forecasts, and planning work.

Who Taylor Works With

Taylor works mostly with service-based businesses, including contractors and trades, along with real estate operators and investors. She's based in the Kansas City area and works with owners across the country.

• Fractional CFO services for construction companies
• Fractional CFO services for HVAC companies
• Fractional CFO services for dental practices
• All fractional CFO services
• Client case studies

Taylor posts a "Mental Throat Punch Thursday" on LinkedIn every week, a short dose of the honest advice owners usually need to hear. Connect with Taylor on LinkedIn, or meet the rest of the team.

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Outside of Work

Taylor lives just north of Kansas City and is a proud mom of a teenager. She lifts in her garage gym and spends as much time outdoors as she can, whether that's hiking the Tetons, fishing, hunting, or playing pickleball. She shares the house with two dogs and a cat named Eve, short for evil. As a kid she bottle-fed a pet raccoon named Pickles, and her apple pie is still the most requested thing she makes.