SPRING 2025

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Class Introduction | 7-Jan-25
Mark Seastrand
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Class Introduction | aug. 25
Tom Macdonald
Image of Taylor Woodbury
CEO | 16-Jan-25
Taylor Woodbury
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Founder | 21-Jan-25
Joseph Grenny
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Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Founder of Influence.vc | 23-Jan-25
Bubba Page
Image of Chase D. Olson
Founder | 28-Jan-25
Chase D. Olson
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Ethics Winner | 30-Jan-25
Susan Griffith
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Local Entrepreneurs | 4-Feb-25
Casey Baugh
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Chairman | 6-Feb-25
Derrin Hill
Image of Karalynne Call
Founder and CEO | 11-Feb-25
Karalynne Call
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CEO | 13-FEB-25
Rob Allen
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Founder | 18-FEB-25
Aaron Rasmussen
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Director | 25-Feb-25
Seth Jenson
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CIO | 27-Feb-25
Laurent Rotival
Image of Colby and McKenzie
Founders | 4-MAR-25
Colby and McKenzie Bauer
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investor | 18-mar-25
Trent Mano
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Founder | 20-Mar-25
Scott Shumway
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Founder | 25-mar-25
Nate Harris
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        Director of assurance       | 27-mar-25
Elise Cranmer
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performers | 1-apr-25
Brad and Shae Robins
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Mayor | 3-apr-25
Mayor Michelle Kaufusi
Image of Corbin Church
Founder | 8-apr-25
Corbin Church
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board member | 10-apr-25
Graham McMullen
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Founder | 15-apr-25
Vanessa Quigley
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Mark Seastrand
Class Introduction

Mark Seastrand is introducing the class. 

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Tom Macdonald
Assistant Dean for the Woodbury School of Business

Tom Macdonald is an Assistant Dean of the Woodbury School of Business. Mr. Macdonald has over 25 years’ experience in senior management including international, CEO and Board positions. He received the 2007 Businessman of the Year Award from the Provo/Orem Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Macdonald has served as a member of the Orem City Council since 2014 for the 2014-2018 term. He is a partner in several real estate projects; a former President / CEO of two Utah businesses; former VP International operations for a technology company and a personal care company; and a former Manager / CPA of Grant Thornton, an international CPA firm.

Mr. Macdonald is married to the former Kaye Mangum of Orem with 4 married children and 16 grand children.

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Taylor Woodbury
CEO, Woodbury Corporation

E. Taylor Woodbury serves as the CEO of Woodbury Corporation and is also active in the development/investment activities of the company.  He has overseen over $500M of private and public investment in the Falcon Hill Aerospace Research Park at Hill AFB in Utah and led Woodbury’s entitlement efforts and a successful campaign against a referendum to approve The Green on Campus Drive near Utah Valley University, the largest private student housing project in Utah.  Mr. Woodbury has B.S., J.D., and M.B.A. degrees from The George Washington University and an LL.M. in taxation from Boston University. 

 

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Joseph Grenny
Founder, The Other Side Academy

Joseph Grenny is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including leadership, influence and communication classics like Crucial Conversations, Crucial Influence, Crucial Accountability, and Change Anything. His work is used by over two thirds of Forbes Global 2000 companies and is taught by over 20,000 trainers across the world. He is a co-founder of Crucial Learning, one of the world’s most respected training and organization development firms. 

He is a co-founder and current board chair of Unitus Labs, an international nonprofit that has helped over 50 million of the world’s poorest to move toward self-reliance. Unitus Labs was instrumental in launching some of the most successful impact investment and related firms in the world, including Unitus Seed Fund (and its successor, Capria), Unitus Equity Fund, Unitus Ventures (and its successor, Patamar), and Unitus Capital. Unitus Capital has provided capital arrangement services of over $4 billion to some of the world’s most successful socially-oriented ventures. 

In 2015 he and his colleagues started The Other Side Academy, a 2.5-year school for those with long histories of crime, addiction and homelessness. Students at The Other Side Academy, or TOSA run some of the most admired business in Utah, including The Other Side Movers, The Other Side Thrift Boutiques and The Other Side Builders. Over their tenure at TOSA, students not only learn life changing vocational skills, but they also learn life skills like integrity, selflessness, communication and self-discipline.  

In 2021, Joseph and leaders of The Other Side Academy co-founded The Other Side Village, a 430-home community for those who are chronically homeless based on principles of self-reliance and peer accountability.  

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Bubba Page
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Founder of Influence.vc

 

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Chase D. Olson
Founder, N-OV8-AI

Date: January 28, 2025

 

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Susan Griffith
Ethics Winner, Engleheart Award

Date: January 30, 2025

 

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Casey Baugh
Local Entrepreneur

Date: February 4, 2025

 

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Derrin Hill
Chairman, RevRoad Capital

Date: February 6, 2025

 

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Karalynne Call
Founder and CEO, Just Ingredients

Date: February 11, 2025

 

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Rob Allen
President and CEO, Intermountain Health

Date: February 13, 2025

 

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Seth Jensen
Director, UVU EI

Date: February 25, 2025

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Laurent Rotival
CIO, Cambia Health Solutions

Date: February 27, 2025

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Colby and McKenzie
Founder, Thread Wallet

Date: March 4, 2025

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Trent Mano
Pre-seed Investor/GP, Utah Tech / Convoi Ventures

Date: March 18, 2025

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Scott Shumway
Founder, EMINENT LLC

Date: March 20, 2025

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Nate Harris
Founder, Spin Properties, LLC

Date: March 25, 2025

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Elise Cranmer
Director of Assurance, CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA)

Date: March 27, 2025

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Brad and Shea Robins
Founders and Performers, Gentri, Actress

Date: April 1, 2025

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Mayor Kaufusi
Mayor, Provo City

Date: April 3, 2025

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Corbin Church
Founder, IHUB

Date: April 8, 2025

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Graham Mcmullen
Founder, Investor, WSB Board Member

Date: April 10, 2025

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Vanessa Quigley
Founder, Chatbooks

Date: April 17, 2025