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.

Note: Due to the busy professional and personal schedules of our speakers, emergencies or other conflicts may inevitably arise that may prevent the speakers from attending with very little advance notice. We apologies for any inconvenience or disappointments that such situations may cause.

Keynotes

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on June 23, 1994. At the time of this call, Elder Holland was serving as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, to which he had been called on April 1, 1989.

From 1980 until his call as a General Authority in 1989, Jeffrey R. Holland served as the ninth president of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He is a former Church commissioner of education and dean of the College of Religious Education at BYU.

Elder Richard J. Maynes

Presidency of the Quorum of the Seventy

Elder Richard J. Maynes was named a member of the Presidency of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on January 20, 2012. He was sustained a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on March 31, 2001, and served in the Second Quorum of the Seventy beginning in April 1997.

Shanna Parmley

Former Sacramento Temple matron

Shanna Parmley is former matron of the California Sacramento Temple and also recently served with her husband in the Africa Southeast Area Presidency. She is the mother of four children and ten grandchildren. She has served as Stake Primary President, Stake Young Women's President, Ward Primary President, young Women's President, and Relief Society President. She has taught seminary and plays the organ and piano. She is a graduate of BYU and taught school for four years, and has owned her own decorating business.

Steven & Margaret Wheelwright

President and First Lady of BYU-Hawaii

Steven and Margaret Wheelwright are, respectively, the President and First Lady of Brigham Young University - Hawaii, after becoming the ninth president of the University on June 23, 2007. Called by President Gordon B. Hinckley to preside over Brigham Young University–Hawaii, he and the university have been charged to continue to improve the quality of the education delivered and efficiently utilize the resources of the Church in order to bless the lives of as many students as possible, particularly the young men and women from Asia and the Pacific. Prior to their time in Hawaii, President and Sister Wheelwright presided over the London, England Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then as service missionaries at BYU–Idaho. They are the parents of five children and 18 grandchildren.

Breakouts

Fred Luskin

Director of Forgiveness Projects and a Senior Consultant of Health Promotion at Stanford University

Dr. Luskin is Director of Forgiveness Projects and a Senior Consultant of Health Promotion at Stanford University. He conducts research on the effects of forgiveness education and therapy. A central goal of Dr. Luskin’s work is to show that forgiveness is helpful for emotional, physical, and relationship well-being. His research demonstrates that learning to forgive leads to increased physical vitality, hope, optimism, and conflict resolution skills and decreased anger, hurt, depression, and stress.

Ann Ko

Investor and co-founding partner at FLOODGATE

Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding partner at FLOODGATE where her investment interests include the innovations in e-commerce, security, and big data. She currently sits on the boards of Modcloth, Refinery29, Chloe and Isabel, Wanelo, Zimride, Ayasdi, Inscopix, and CSS. She was previously a board member of TaskRabbit.

Robert Daines

Pritzker Professor of Law and Business at Stanford

Robert M. Daines is the Pritzker Professor of Law and Business and Co-Director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford. His research focuses on the intersection between law and finance, including CEO pay, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, mandatory disclosure regulations, IPOs, shareholder voting and takeover defenses. Professor Daines’ work has appeared in such top publications as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, and The Yale Law Journal. His research has also been covered by The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, and other media.

Kristen Smith Dayley

Founding partner of Prism Law Group

Kristen Smith Dayley is a founding partner of Prism Law Group, PLLC, a boutique corporate law firm that advises companies on contract strategy and negotiation, corporate risk, and corporate governance issues. Kristen is the author of For All the Saints: Lessons Learned in Building the Kingdom, a book that draws upon hundreds of oral histories collected over a 20-year period by Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. Set in Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding areas, For All the Saints explores the growth of the Church in the New England area and the profound impact ordinary Saints can have when partnered with the Lord, no matter where they live.

Matt Bowman

Professor of Religion at Hampden Sydney College

Matthew Bowman is the author of The Mormon People: the making of an American faith (Random House, 2012) and the articles "This is my Body: A Mormon Sacrament," and "A Mormon Bigfoot: David Patten's Cain and the Conception of Evil in Mormon Folklore." The associate editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, he teaches religion at Hampden Sydney College.

Randy Paul

Founder and president of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy

Charles Randall Paul was raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, USA. He graduated from Brigham Young University, with a BS in social psychology in 1970. He obtained his MBA from Harvard University in 1972. He worked for 16 years as an area partner at Trammell Crow Company in the southwestern United States where he developed many commercial real estate projects. He obtained a Ph.D. in 2000 at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He wrote his dissertation on religious and cultural conflict under the supervision of David Tracy, Martin Marty, and Harold Bloom (Yale).

John R. Muir

Entrepreneur and pioneer in the cyber security industry

John Muir enjoys taking the road untraveled in search of ideas that both excite and matter. A lifelong entrepreneur and pioneer in the cyber security industry, he has founded three companies, and is now involved with a carbon-negative energy company.

Brent Knudsen

Managing Partner and founder of Partnership Capital Growth

Brent Knudsen is Managing Partner and founder of Partnership Capital Growth, the leading investment bank and financial advisory firm focused exclusively on the healthy, active and sustainable living marketplace.