Speakers

Take advantage of the unique opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds around—leaders and successful innovators who are fully grounded in the gospel.

Keynotes

Elder Patrick Kearon

First Quorum of the Seventy

Elder Patrick Kearon was sustained a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 3, 2010, at the age of 48. At the time of his call, he had been serving as a member of the Third Quorum of the Seventy in the Europe Area. He is currently serving as an assistant executive director of the Priesthood Department and the Media Services Department.

Elder Kearon was educated in the Middle East and the United Kingdom. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and the United States in various industries, including health care, food, automotive, and transport, and ran his own communications consultancy. Civic and community involvement has included service on the boards of charities, a school, an enterprise agency, and a college.

Clayton Christensen

Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching interests center on the management issues related to the development and commercialization of technological and business model innovation. Specific areas of focus include developing organizational capabilities and finding new markets for new technologies.

Breakouts

Gary Crittenden

Managing Director, Huntsman Gay Global Capital

Gary Crittenden is a Managing Director of Huntsman Gay Global Capital, a private equity firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California that focuses on middle market companies.

Prior to joining Huntsman Gay, Crittenden was the Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup from 2007 to 2009. He was responsible for the financial leadership of the company during the global economic crisis. He was also CFO of American Express from 2000 to 2007. Prior to American Express, Crittenden was CFO of Monsanto and Sears, Roebuck & Company.

Becky Douglas

Founder and President, Rising Star Outreach

Becky Douglas is the founder and president of Rising Star Outreach, a non-profit that works with the leprosy-affected of India. Her organization uses micro-credit to create economic self-reliance, provides medical services, and gives a world-class education to the children of the leprosy colonies.

Russell Hancock

President and CEO, Joint Venture Silicon Valley

Russell Hancock is President & CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, an influential group of government and business leaders tackling regional problems. In this role Dr. Hancock—Rusty—is best described variously: as a civic leader, community gatherer, institution builder, social entrepreneur, and outspoken advocate for regionalism. Since taking the helm of Joint Venture he has quadrupled the size of the organization, assembled a board that reads like the “Who’s Who” of Silicon Valley, built strategic partnerships, recruited a highly talented staff, and launched projects and initiatives that are delivering measurable results to the region. He has also raised millions of dollars from corporations, foundations, and local government.

Candace Osborn

Marriage and Family Therapist

Candace Osborn grew up in Lawrence, Kansas and graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.A. in English. She taught high school English in a school of profoundly disadvantaged children, an experience which continues to enlarge and inform her life.

Candace married her husband, Greg, in 1970, and they joined the Church together in 1971, prior to Greg's deployment to Vietnam. Following Greg's return, they settled in Palo Alto, where they reared their family of five children, all of whom are serving their fellow travelers in the various fields of parenthood, medicine, law, clinical psychology and broadcast journalism.

John Stevens

Chairman and CEO, Heartflow, Inc.

John Stevens is the Chairman and CEO of Silicon Valley based Heartflow, Inc. He is also the Managing Partner of Headwaters Capital Partners, Founder of KaeMe.org, and currently serves on the board for Apnicure, Heartflow, and Kaeme.

He has had a distinguished career as an entrepreneur and healthcare professional. He was the Co-founder and CTO of Heartport, the Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Amp Resources, Co-founder and Chairman of Sundrop Fuels, and Co-founder and Managing Partner of Amp Capital Partners. He has had extensive experience founding, investing and leading technology focused companies

Reed Wilcox

Co-founder and Senior Managing Director, General Resonance

Reed Wilcox is Co-founder and Chief Development Officer at General Resonance, a science-based privately held company founded in 2004. General Resonance is the innovator and world leader in resonance energy technology. It is unique in its nontraditional, cross-disciplinary approach to discovery and development, in pioneering the use of proprietary resonance physics and biophysics in pharmaceuticals and cleantech energy, and in its dual commitment to return on investment and humanitarian impact. Reed also leads the Pharmaceuticals, Malaria and Neglected Diseases initiatives. He and his family relocated for a year to Ghana, West Africa, to lead a research collaboration with the University of Ghana.

Liz Wiseman

President, The Wiseman Group

Liz Wiseman teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the President of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. She is the author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development. She has worked and traveled in over 30 countries. Liz holds a B.S. in Business Management and a Master of Organizational Behavior both from Brigham Young University.

Sunday program

Julie Beck

General President, Relief Society

Julie Bangerter Beck was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her earliest memories are of growing up in the mission home in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, where her father presided over the Brazilian Mission. By the time she returned to Utah at age nine, she was fluent in Portuguese and had developed a strong love for the gospel of Jesus Christ. She grew up in Granger, Utah, with 10 siblings. During high school her family moved to Alpine, Utah.

After a year at Dixie College, she met her husband, Ramon, an Alpine native. Both graduated from Brigham Young University. Sister Beck has served in many callings in the auxiliaries of the Church and in Scouting. She served on the Young Women general board and as first counselor in the Young Women general presidency.

Firoz “King” Husein

President and Founder, Span Construction & Engineering

Firoz "King" Husein grew up as a Muslim in Bombay, India and came to the United States for higher education. Prior to coming to the U.S., he had never heard of the Mormons or BYU. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Bombay and his M.S. in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University. He is the president and owner of Span Construction & Engineering, Freedom Management, and Eagle Building Systems. He has been named the Top Pre-engineered Steel Builder in the U.S. for 19 years.

King's firm is the exclusive builder for Costco. To date, Span Construction & Engineering has built 62 million square feet for Costco throughout the U.S. and abroad. In addition, King helped to build the Indoor Practice Facility, Student Athletic Building, and the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni Building at BYU. He received the Distinguished Service Award from BYU in 2005, the Honored Alumni of the Year award from BYU's College of Engineering and Technology in 1993, and BYU's President's Award in 2009.

Elder Robert Packer

Area Authority, Fifth Quorum of the Seventy

Robert Packer was called in April 2010 to the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy. He is self-employed and has served in the church as a high councilor, bishop, branch presidency member, and mission president. He and his wife Shelley live in Lafayette, California and are the parents of five children.