Taulbert served in the 89th Presidential Wing of the United States Air Force and has been inducted in the Enlisted Airmen Hall of Fame.
A former Oklahoma banker, Taulbert is president and founder of the Freemount Corporation, a consulting company focused on human capital development and organizational effectiveness.
Since the founding of the company, his philosophy has been embraced by such companies as Lockheed Martin, Bank of America, Baxter Healthcare, Pacific Coast Gas, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and K-12, and post-secondary academic leadership around the world, from China to the Mississippi Delta.
Taulbert has authored 13 books, several of which are foundational to his consulting philosophy: Eight Habits of the Heart and Who Owns the Ice House: Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur (Who Owns the Ice House is part of a Kauffman Foundation-sponsored education initiative to expose the impact of the entrepreneurial mindset at all levels) and, more recently, Shift Your Thinking: Win Where You Stand and The Invitation: Living beyond the lingering lessons of race and place.
Taulbert is a trustee of the University of Tulsa, has been recognized international by the Sales and Marketing Academy of Achievement, the Library of Congress, the NAACP, Rotary International as a Paul Harris Fellow and has been a recipient of the Jewish Humanitarian of the Year Award and the Richard Wright Literary Award.