Our Team
Melissa Taylor, ACN, BS Marketing- President & Director of Education
Melissa Taylor is a whole food nutritional counselor, practice manager and clinical consultant with an extensive background in marketing, human resources and corporate employee development. After a serious chronic illness, 11 surgeries and 3 autoimmune diseases, conventional medicine had failed, and she set down the path of alternative approaches. Prior to and after recovery, she worked for two Fortune 100 companies in sales, customer service and corporate training. She served as the national trainer for BioMeridian™ International, a nutritional evaluation device and has been directly involved with more than 3000 practitioners and staff members in the natural medicine community. She has designed and delivered nutrition workshops and seminars for patients, practitioners and staff members for over 18 years.
Melissa currently works with patients two days per week and serves as the Director of Education for Whole Food Practice, recruiting presenters, developing content and teaching online programs. As a clinical and practice consultant, she draws on her education in marketing, human resources, process improvement and training development to create a wide array of patient materials and practice tools. A career spanning 35 years has provided great depth of knowledge in order to provide customized clinical and practice coaching.
Melissa’s old life and career: Worked for UPS for 12 years in various sales and management roles and delivered packages every Christmas (HoHoHo).
Melissa’s favorite relaxation activity: Love me some Zumba.
“ I am thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.”
-Alex Elle
Chris Taylor, DC, ACN - Clinical and Technical Advisor
Dr. Chris Taylor is an Upper Cervical Chiropractor who has demonstrated heightened clinical success by integrating therapeutic nutritional and herbal protocols with his patients. He has operated cash only practices in New Hampshire and Utah and currently sees patients two days per week while serving as the Clinical and Technical Advisor for Whole Food Practice. He has had the privilege to work on a number of technical project teams that have researched and developed tools and resources for practitioners, including Heart Sound Recorder, Systems Survey and BioMeridian™. His newest project is functional blood chemistry reports. Dr. Taylor considers himself a conservative and straightforward nutritional clinician with a simple approach - be a 100% doctor by educating patients, setting priorities, acting and evaluating results.
Dr. Taylor graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 2000 and has a B.S degree in Physical Education and Health. He is a highly informed nutritional clinician and provides phone and internet support to clients wanting to discuss cases, technical product details and mechanisms for healing.
Dr. Taylor’s old life and career: Worked as a physical education teacher, high school football and lacrosse coach and athletic trainer before switching careers. Also made hand-dipped cathedral candles!
Dixie Jones, ACN - eLearning Project Manager
Dixie Jones is an experienced administrator with a knack for process and efficiency. At age 42, she pursued a life-long dream of becoming a pastry chef, but shortly after graduation was diagnosed with gluten intolerance and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Needless to say, instead of opening her own pastry shop, she spent the last 8 years working her way back to good health through diet, lifestyle and nutrition. Dixie worked for Microsoft for a couple of years before deciding that corporate life was not for her. She managed office operations for a busy general surgeon, worked as a title specialist in the car industry, and more recently served in the roles of clinical assistant and office specialist for a busy NAET clinic.
As the eLearning Project Manager for Whole Food Practice, Dixie draws on her past experiences to keep course planning and deadlines on track. She is also tasked with maintaining continual communications with our certification enrollees and providing regular progress reports. She is always a phone call or email away and will put you in touch with the right resource.
Personal Dixie’s favorite relaxation activity: Reading a cookbook with lots of pictures.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
- Hippocrates
