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Leadership Alignment and Personal Resilience Coach and Speaker
My Hero’s Journey started with a plunge into a collegiate pool at BYU to support my pursuit of an accounting degree followed by a move up North to the University of Utah for a law degree. After working in Southern California, I found my way back home to Utah helping structure and fund client businesses as a securities attorney before taking a position as the COO of a growing national insurance company.
I currently serve as the CEO of Lecticon and VEST EAP where we provide clients with comprehensive cultural enhancement and employee retention solutions. We are fortunate to work with clients including Salt Lake County, Larry Miller Group, AAA Insurance, Safety National Insurance, and many first responder agencies, among many others.
Transformative Coach and Leader
My life has been an adventurous spiral vs. a linear path. After graduating from college, I moved to New York to embark on my career. The Big Apple was an amazing training ground where I found myself surrounded with opportunity and growth as a leader. I led corporate divisions with large teams in financial services and healthcare, before following my entrepreneurial promptings. As an entrepreneur, my team consulted numerous Fortune 100 clients. At the height of success, I took the road less traveled and returned home to care for my father while he recovered from a heart attack. That decision shifted my life course leading me to reuniting with a friend, who is now my husband.
Currently, I co-own a coaching business with my husband, where we coach couples and individuals about navigating life. Together we are the hosts of a top international alternative health podcast, The Observatory.
Alletrust CEO, Trainer, and Speaker
I grew up around horses and livestock. In ranching, hard work is only the beginning. You also must know a little about a lot. My thirst for knowledge and my need to stay busy has never rested. I have been married to Peggy Dean for over 40 years. We live in Spanish Fork, Utah.
I am the CEO of AlleTrust Inc. We are a training and consulting organization with roots in Geneva Switzerland and Spanish Fork, Utah USA. We use the need to protect people from harm as the foundation for improving our leadership skills and developing a culture of caring, compassion, and community at work. Our programs have been delivered in over 50 countries around the world.
Mental Health Counselor, Trainer, and Speaker
Jennifer Carlson is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor. She holds designations as a Nationally Certified Master Addiction Counselor and a Nationally Certified Counselor. She has over 20 years of clinical and administrative experience in the field of mental health.
Jennifer has practiced within inpatient, residential, and outpatient treatment settings. She has been the clinical director at two mental health and addiction treatment centers and is experienced in both program design and implementation. Currently she works as a clinical consultant and supervisor, does public speaking engagements and facilitates experiential learning for organizations. Her greatest teachers of resilience have been the people she’s been privileged to serve.
Scaling Up Coach
I help ambitious business owners, CEOs, and leadership teams transform their businesses through the use of a growth system. The growth system provides a systematic process for developing the key capabilities needed to grow predictably and reliably. I especially love working with big-hearted founders who care about their employees’ growth and well-being. Some of my biggest sources of inspiration are Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, The Great Game of Business, and all of Jim Collins’ Good to Great research.
Mental Health Counselor, Trainer, and Speaker
My story starts with an acting career that started at the University of Utah actor training program. AFter finishing my BFA I auditioned in New York for graduate acting programs. I ended up at Northern Illinois University for my MFA and then worked professionally as an actor in Chicago and taught theatre arts classes at Elmhurst University. In 2015 I decided to make some changes and went on my own mental health journey where I discovered a new passion to work with people on their mental health. More school followed and now I am a licensed clinical mental health counselor.
I currently serve as the head of operations and oversight in the Vest Care Center. I also help to develop the VEST resilience training, do many presentations, and webinars. I also head our CISM response team that provides in person group debriefs and individual therapy to companies as requested.
Social Worker, Mental Health First Aid Trainer
Noelle is the Co-Director of Operations and Oversight in the VEST Care Center. Noelle has a masters degree in Social Work from the University of Utah. She uses a strength based approach from a healing perspective. While Noelle is trained in various therapy modalities she has also been trained by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and conducts Mental Health First Aid training, allowing her to share the importance of mental health. Noelle has also received additional training on working with first responders. Noelle holds the following degrees and certifications: BSW, MSW, CSW.
