Hugh Taylor – CEO
Ill-advisedly, arguably, Hugh set out to build Roadnight Taylor as an energy consultancy doing many things for many people. But he soon realised the firm did just one thing exceptionally well: enabling better grid connections — faster, cheaper, and with less risk. He doubled down — on that one thing, and on the brilliant people who made it a reality.
Hugh no longer advises clients. While he once sat on expert panels for six of the UK’s electricity networks, he now considers himself a relative layperson. Instead, he leads the business by exploring, synthesising and experimenting with the ideas of the world’s most respected business thinkers. From Jim Collins, Reed Hastings and Nancy Kline, to Blair Enns, Seth Godin, Gary Hamel – and many more – Hugh has shaped an idiosyncratic but high-performing, culture-led team.
Through coaching and mentoring, and via the firm’s Flywheel architecture, Hugh empowers the team to grow, to thrive and to help our clients, and industry as a whole, to deliver extraordinary outcomes.
He is responsible for the firm’s philosophy, its positioning, and for shaping its distinctive voice and a market-shaping approach.
Hugh also hosts many of Roadnight Taylor’s widely viewed webinars and podcasts. As the only layperson on these sessions, he brings a naïve curiosity to complex grid challenges — drawing out insight to be shared freely through the firm’s Connectology® mission.
He is also a cold-plunging, dawn-running, nose-breathing, healthy-eating, non-drinking (mainly), meditator – with an AI obsession. Don’t get him started…
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As the UK’s leading team focussed on achieving timely grid connections at least cost and risk, our engineers and consultants bring together over 70 years of stellar network experience to deploy an unrivalled combination of technical, commercial, and regulatory grid expertise – wielded with the emotional intelligence and soft skills necessary to bring the very best out of our clients and our network operator colleagues.
