Opening Remarks

Chad Workman, UVU Student Body President
Matthew Holland, UVU President
Norm Wright, Business School Dean

Brad Wilcox

Facing Your Worst Fear

  

During the keynote presentation, students will learn to act and not react.  Additionally, they will be encouraged to initiate conversations and overcome the fear of outside judgement.  Students will learn to expect the best and learn to act with confidence by emulating personal heroes.

Breakout Sessions

No matter the topic, our speakers have hands-on leadership experience.

We tailor our speakers to speak on a breadth of topics so that you can find lectures crafted especially for your students.  As an advisor, you have the option to register breakout sessions for individual students, teams of students, or your entire class.

Natasha Carlton

Suit Up: Tips for Staying Classy in a Competitive World

When your resume just is not enough, you need to learn how to step it up. In this breakout session, participants will learn how to dress to impress for interviews, work, business meetings, and other occasions.

Kris Coles

The Courage to Lead

Too often people avoid leadership opportunities.  This session talks about great leaders who stayed true to themselves and took difficult opportunities to exemplify true leadership.

Jose Enriquez

True Leadership Comes from Acts of Service

In this session, Dr. Enriquez will stress the importance of education and service leadership in his life and talk about his ticket out of the "barrios" of Los Angeles. Students will learn that knowledge is Power, Confidence, and Freedom.

Kevin Giddins

Step Up: The Leader's Dance

In this workshop participants will explore leadership principles through their actual participation in the dance style "Steppin."  Participants will have the stewardship to teach others to awaken the servant-leader within.

Nathan Hanamakai

If I Can Do It...Lesson from Kung Fu Panda

Po and Shifu can teach more than noodle-making and the Wuxi Finger Hold.  In this session, students will discuss significant lessons on the resiliency humorously taught by these two lovable movie characters.

Rick Larsen

Student Leadership Does Make a Difference

Students of this session will learn to create caring climates at their schools.  Student leaders will discuss the positive impact, inspiration, and influence they have over their peers.

Ricky Lundell

Wrestling and Leadership

Ricky Lundell is an American Jiu-Jitsu player/Grappler, and Co-founder of UoG. The youngest American to earn a BJJ Black Belt, Ricky has worked with UFC/WEC fighters across North America. 

Victor Narmisulu

How to Understand Culture and College Success 

This session will help students understand our cultural maps in order to navigate their way through college.  It will also help students understand how to build on the positive narratives and deconstruct the deficit ones.

Jeff Owens

Get Un-Stuck

In this session, students will explore how to turn unresolved conflict and other problems into solutions. Unresolved conflict and problems lead to bad feelings, lack of vision, and a lack of productivity.

Clint Pulver

Choices and the Rhythm of Life

Participants in this session learn vital leadership skills within a team and the power of choices through hands on drumming, interactive techniques, and memorable lessons that will help you to succeed as a leader.

Impact Grant Committee

#SpeakUpUVU

Here, students need to come ready and prepared to learn how to use social media to stand up and represent themselves.  Students will need smartphones and the courage to tweet their opinions.

Craig Rollins

How to Avoid Snatching Failure From the Jaws of Success

Out of near disaster, success is possible.  This session will explore aspects of identifying team needs and making positive course corrections during planning and implementation of projects and events.

Michael Snapp

Brand or Be Branded!  Write, Own, and Be Your Brand

Students will learn that they have a brand and they should be the one who determines it. In this session, participants will write their personal branding statement and discover the importance of living it.

Michelle Taylor

Learn How to Communicate When the Stakes are High

Great leaders communicate well even when they have to deliver difficult news or find themselves in an unwanted conflict.  Here, participants will discuss the secrets of communicating effectively when the stakes are high.

Martha Wilson

When the Going Gets Rough, the Tough Get Going

This engaging session will focus on cultivating a mindset that embraces challenge, adversity and failure as the gateway to the development of persistence, tenacity and resilience—indispensable traits for effective servant leadership.