Domain of Opportunity

In his mid-twenties Mike Taylor was an English bloke on the move. A fit and healthy senior designer, a man about town, an elite rower, a skier, a hiker. On an around-the-world trip at the age of twenty-six, Mike had his first MS symptom — though he didn't know what it was at the time. Subways and buses became difficult, then hard, then impossible. He was diagnosed with MS, and over the next six years, his symptoms increased until at the age of thirty-three he was confined to a wheelchair.

Third time lucky, Mike's Team England wins the Catalina swim

There have been considerable challenges, but Mike has never let his condition stop him. In the midst of his deteriorating physical condition, he purchased his first home and started his own design company — appropriately called Spirit Partnership. The same year that he got his first wheelchair, he swam the English Channel. Since then he has swum from Mallorca to Menorca (25 miles), and Catalina to Santa Monica (38 miles) three times.

Mike stays busy. He co-founded the international charity Turning the Tides, organized fund raising events that reached global audiences in the millions, helped fund myelin replacement research by Dr Timothy Vollmer at Yale University.

09/25/05 A new life begins ...

On the last of his Catalina adventures, Mike met his wife Helen. They live in Los Angeles where — encouraged by friends and associates — Mike launched his dynamic speaking career. His signature speech is entitled The Domain of Opportunity — a Simple Shift of Focus.

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