Through her consultancy, Rebecca advises museums, galleries, art fairs, foundations, artist estates, and luxury brands, as well as local and national governmental organizations, on the complex strategic challenges facing the cultural sector and cultural tourism today. Drawing on deep sector expertise, she conducts internal and external brand audits and develops bespoke, holistic strategies that address clients’ specific needs while supporting both short- and long-term objectives.

Prior to launching her consultancy, Rebecca served as Executive Vice President of a leading arts and culture agency, where she helped shape global strategy and led international initiatives for a wide-ranging roster of clients. These included Alserkal (Dubai); ARoS Museum (Denmark); Art Basel (Basel | Hong Kong | Miami Beach); ART021 (Shanghai); BMW Group Culture; Fondation Beyeler; Faurschou Foundation (Beijing | Copenhagen | New York); Northwestern University in Qatar; Saudi Art Council; Sharjah Art Foundation; and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C.), among others.

In parallel with her professional practice, Rebecca is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and a part-time Lecturer in the Department of Arts & Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has also taught in the Contemporary Art Business Program at Christie’s Education and at UCLA Extension. A frequent invited speaker, she has presented at international conferences and symposia in Barcelona, Berlin, Bristol, Buenos Aires, Glasgow, Istanbul, London, Mexico City, New York, Seoul, and beyond. Earlier in her career, she was a contributing writer to Khan Academy’s Smarthistory (Contemporary Art) and The Huffington Post (Arts) during the launch of both platforms.

Rebecca’s academic research engages timely questions at the intersection of aesthetics, education, and cultural life. Her work focuses in particular on young people’s relationships to the arts and the conditions that support self-cultivation and flourishing. She is currently collaborating with colleagues from Arts Administrators in Higher Education (AAHE) on a national study assessing the state of the arts on university campuses. She also recently completed a focused study on teen programming and engagement in New York City museums (Taylor, Journal of Museum Education, forthcoming). In addition, she is conducting ongoing research on Re-presencing, a pedagogical framework she developed that centers sustained aesthetic experience as a practice of meaning-making and human flourishing (see Taylor, Journal of Aesthetic Education, forthcoming; Taylor, 2025; Taylor & Ball, 2022).