Taylor Jones, Ph.D.
Managing Partner and Principal consultant
Dr. Taylor Jones has taken the helm as Managing Partner at CulturePoint. He has been a principal consultant for over a decade. He is an experienced and talented facilitator, and works primarily with military clients, having consulted with many Navy Commands as well as with the Army and several National Guard detachments. Recent Navy clients include NAVAIR, NAVSEA, SPAWAR, OJAG, and the Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary. Dr. Jones specializes in teaching leaders the skills necessary to effectively manage the modern workforce, leveraging evidence-based best practices to bring higher reliability organizations to their highest possible performance by removing barriers to merit and efficiency across the board.
Dr. Jones is an expert on the intersection of race, language, and bias, and has done research on cross-dialect comprehension and conflict, and on how speakers and listeners think strategically about speech acts. His research has been published in Language, and American Speech, and has been featured in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Economist, and Slate, as well as on NPR, CBC, CBS, and Vice News Tonight.
Dr. Jones’s doctoral research was on regional variation in African American English, but he also has published work on Mandarin, Persian, and Zulu. He received is doctorate in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He has lectured at the Naval Postgraduate School, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, New York University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Texas, and others.
Dr. Jones is the author of a blog focused on language, bias, and analysis which can be found at www.languagejones.com.