Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center

Last night, we had the privilege of hosting our 2025 Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center Case Competition in collaboration with AlignOrg Solutions - Differentiation by Design®, bringing together top student talent to tackle one of today’s most pressing leadership challenges—integrating AI into human-driven innovation. Twelve teams stepped into the role of Toner Inc.'s executive team, crafting strategic solutions to balance the benefits of AI-driven materials discovery with the need to sustain workforce engagement, creativity, and expertise. With no slides and only a 10-minute verbal pitch, students had to think fast, communicate clearly, and persuade an esteemed panel of judges that their approach could lead Toner into a future of sustainable innovation. A huge thank you to CEO of AlignOrg Solution, Ken Thompson for making this happen. As well as to our judges -- their thoughtful questions and feedback elevated the experience for every participant. Judges throughout the evening included Kevin Spencer, McKlayne Marshall, Erica Brown, Olivia Archibald, Alex Romney, Kristy Dimmick, Colin Cole, and David Roskelley, MSPH, CIH, CSP, FAIHA, Kasen Holbrook, and Julena Bonner. Watching these students grapple with real-world complexities and present with confidence was a testament to the power of experiential learning. Congratulations to all the competitors for their impressive work, and thank you to everyone who made this event a success! It’s exciting to see the next generation of leaders rising to meet the challenges of an AI-driven world. A special congratulations to our winning teams: First Place - Olivia Hall - Abby Crowther - Makenna Norton - Addison (Addie) Hatch Second Place - Porter Kamerath - Brady Echols - Ashley Crosland - Taylor Peterson Third Place - Packer Evans - Braxton Loveridge - Katie Laudie - Darby Mason Fourth Place - Bridger Winward - Ta'Mariah Jenkins - Sierra Robles - Jasmine Kemp

Formally introducing our 2024-2025 Covey Fellows! We’re thankful for all they’ve done and are looking forward to their future accomplishments

We’re thrilled to kick off the spring semester! Wishing everyone a productive and inspiring start to the season. Let’s make it a great one! #DareMightyThings

This semester, we’ve had the opportunity here at the Covey Leadership Center to hear from several remarkable individuals, including Dennis Meulenberg, Jackie Pullinger, Kim Clark, Reverend Teal, Jean Oelwang, and Jeff Flake. -— Dennis Meulenberg joined us via zoom for a conversation on the importance of principle-focused decision making and management. He taught the importance of making decisions with these morals and values when crisis strikes. -— Jackie Pullinger taught that by leading by faith, we can serve, make an impact, and have the potential to be the change we want to see in the world! -— Kim B. Clark taught the importance of activating the soul, heart, and mind while leading. -— Reverend Andrew Teal taught that by building bridges of friendship, trust, and collaboration he has deepened his interpersonal relationships and faith! -— Jean Oelwang taught that some of the most successful people in the world all have a secret power: their partnerships. -— Jeff Flake taught that in the hardest of times, we need to strive to ‘Assume the best, and look for the good.’

On Friday, October 4th we honored Jacqueline Pullinger with our 2024 Stephen R. Covey Principle-Centered Leadership Award. Jackie’s passion for life and purpose is evident in everything she does and says. She shared of her experiences living in and serving the people of Hong Kong, emphasizing that true individual and societal change, progress, and improvement can come from one’s heart focused outward, with an intentional emphasis on helping the individual. Please join us in congratulating Jackie! Thank you to our team: Lord Dr Michael Hastings CBE, Douglas Anderson, Bret Crane, Boyd Craig, Stephen M. R. Covey, Maria Covey Cole, Michael Henderson 何睿霆

We're pleased to introduce the 2024 Covey Center Fellows. We're looking forward to an outstanding year ahead #goaggies #huntsmanschoolofbusiness

Last Friday, we had the incredible opportunity to hear from Britain Covey, a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, and the grandson of Stephen R. Covey. It was a brilliant experience for all of our students, regardless of background. Thank you to Britain, and to Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers for putting on this amazing event with us. This was the final workshop in the 2023-24 Principles In Practice workshop series, but look out next semester for more amazing speakers from all walks of life!

Episode 6 of the Building a Leader Podcast is live!! Join our host, Michael Henderson 何睿霆 in a conversation with Alex Dunn. Available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Sneak Peak: “...the whole process is not like you're on a path of success and then failures, a detour is like, it's a process, and I actually believe the faster you can iterate, the faster you can go through the process, like the faster you'll get to the kind of results you want to get. So then it becomes like, Hey, how, like, how do I like speed? How do I learn faster? And again, I think a lot of it is about how you choose to view your failures.” #BALPodcast

Learning and growing are important aspects of leadership but also important aspects of self development. One of the easiest ways to be lazy is to sit and consume without a purpose. Consumption of media, food, and entertainment are awesome of the smallest, low requirement of consumption that we face. With accessibility to technology and many forms of media, becoming a consumer is so much easier than it has been in the past. However, building, creating, and producing our all some of the most effective ways to stretch yourself, learn new lessons, and feel productive. Creating takes a lot more effort than consuming and doesn’t yield as fast of a dopamine hit as the consumption process does. However, it yields a longer lasting more fulfilling and inspiring sense of fulfillment. Today, and every day seek to create more than you consume.

It was a great honor hosting David Roskelley, MSPH, CIH, CSP, FAIHA and his wife, Lynda at Utah State University - Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. David is an avid mountain climber and the first American to complete the 7 Volcanic Summist. David showed our students how the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People relates to the mental challenges of mountain climbing. His final words of advice were to Do Something Difficult. We must move out of our comfort zones to summit the metaphorical mountains that are in our lives. Thank you so much, Dave, for sharing your wisdom last Friday.