Donene Taylor

Author, Speaker, Performance Coach and WPRA World Champion

Donene Taylor is a Professional Author and Speaker who delivers energizing and fun, inspirational/motivational presentations to many different organizations and teams.


She joined the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association in 1998 and became a Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Champion Tie-Down Calf Roper in 2016. Donene is also a 4-time WPRA Mountain States Circuit Champion Tie-Down Calf Roper.

Donene is the #1 best-selling author of two books. Her first, Heart of a Champion, unpacks her journey of self-discovery as she accomplished her dream to become a world champion. Her second and latest book, Master the Art of Winning, provides you with a mission and steps to dig digger and do the transformational work needed to build your Championship Playbook of how-to rundown your Bold Goals, at an optimal level.

Donene is a Certified Mental Performance Coach. She coaches athletes with tried and true, proven strategies that help them close the gap between where they are to where they want to be. She empowers athletes to reach their full potential as they rundown their Bold Goals to become the best version of themselves.

Donene and her husband, Stan, reside in one of the best small towns ever, Glenrock, Wyoming. She continues to compete with the most elite women rodeo athletes in the world, in the Women's Professional Rodeo Association. Just like you, she has Bold Goals and is running them down, one step at a time.