TEDxBountiful

Speakers

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• Ann Pells

  Financial planner & wealth strategist

  Ann Pells is a certified Wealth Strategist who helps people create greater financial freedom through practical, long-term strategies for debt reduction, passive income, and retirement planning. Through her Three Steps to Financial Freedom framework, she encourages individuals and families to build financial confidence, simplify their choices, and create a legacy that can last for generations. Learn more at AnnPells.com (http://annpells.com/)

• Bryan Hughes

  an author and a people scientist with a PHD in Business Administration

  Dr. Bryan Hughes is a leadership and organizational culture consultant, facilitator, and author, and is an adjunct professor at Cornell University. With nearly three decades of operational leadership experience, he combines science-backed research in how leadership influences culture, with practical application techniques that can be applied in any organization. These behaviors and practices focus on building resiliency against toxicity and associate turnover. Dr. Hughes holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from Bellevue University, an MBA and a Bachelors of Accounting from Western Governors University, and a Bachelors of Music from Berklee College of Music. He resides in Bountiful, UT with his wife, and has four grown children.

• Edoardo Battaglia

  Assistant Professor inhaptics and robotics at University of Utah

  Edoardo Battaglia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Center at the University of Utah, where he leads research in haptics, robotics, and physical human–robot interaction. His work explores how touch shapes trust, learning, and user experience in emerging technologies, with applications ranging from prosthetics and rehabilitation to virtual reality and mental health. He is especially interested in designing technology that is not only functional, but genuinely human-centered.

• Jared Haddock

  marketing expert & entertainer

  Jared Haddock is a marketing expert focused on building brands, teams, and ideas centered around one core belief: humans are wired for connection, and we find it through shared effort. As Chief Marketing Officer of the viral brands Keto Chow and SALTT, he leads marketing strategy focused not just on growth, but on creating communities around active, meaningful living. His work sits at the intersection of business, culture, and human behavior-exploring how products can serve as tools for deeper experiences with others. Jared has also created, directed, and produced live theatrical productions seen by millions across the nation-from Hawaii to Las Vegas to New York-and broadcast on PBS. Combined with his work as a youth football coach and trainer of champion working dogs, he has seen firsthand how challenge transforms groups into teams.

• Joe Allen

  professor at the University of Utah studying workplace meetings

  Dr. Joseph A. Allen is a Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of Utah and director of the Center for Meeting Effectiveness. A leading expert on workplace meetings, he studies how the ways we gather, communicate, and collaborate shape performance, well-being, and organizational life more broadly. He has published more than 300 works, written books including Running Effective Meetings for Dummies, Suddenly Virtual, and Suddenly Hybrid, and has helped more than 500 organizations improve how their people work together. At the heart of his work is a simple idea: meetings are not inherently broken, most of us have just never been taught how to make them work.

• Kimball Clark

  Bee scientist & past president and founder of the Orchard Bee Association

  Kimball Clark is a designer, entrepreneur, and pollinator innovator whose interest in native bees began with a backyard lesson for his young son. That early curiosity grew into a years-long effort to better understand solitary bees and their potential to strengthen both local ecosystems and agriculture. Since 2007, Clark has refined nesting solutions for native bees and worked alongside entomologists, scientists, students, and entrepreneurs worldwide. His efforts have contributed to the development of six supplemental or alternative pollinators beyond honey bees, helping expand how farms and communities think about pollination.