Ken Taylor, president of Ohio Cat, was awarded the 2023 Malden Mills Corporate Kindness Award at a special ceremony that the Values-in-Action Foundation sponsored.
The Values-in-Action Foundation annually recognizes local, national and international community leaders, businesses and outstanding educators for promoting kindness, care and respect to students and adults for a better society.
“I am grateful to receive this award,” Taylor says. “To be honored for this fundamental quality reflects appreciation for what kindness means to those around us. I believe kindness comes back full circle, both personally and professionally. I continually strive to inspire others to be the best – be good, do good and apply these values in everything you do.”
Taylor is the third generation of his family to lead Ohio Machinery Co., which counts Ohio Cat among its dealer brands.
“Ken Taylor is a unique CEO who leads with heart and runs his family enterprise with ‘employees’ as extended family,” says Stuart Muszynski, president and CEO of Values-in-Action Foundation. “He follows in the method of leadership exemplified by the late Aaron Feuerstein, CEO of Malden Mills, who paid his 3,500 textile mill employees full wages and benefits after a devastating fire in 1995 that destroyed most of the mill. And that is why we at the Values-in-Action Foundation are thrilled to recognize Ken Taylor and Ohio Cat with our Malden Mills Corporate Kindness Award.”
