Ted Finch

This session provides an introduction to business strategy and disruptive innovation. Attendees will come away having clearly identified what strategic choices they are making in their creative efforts. They will also gain new insights and an appreciation for the multiplicity of ways they have to strategically and disruptively innovate in their businesses. Additionally, participants will build a roadmap together for infusing even greater creativity into their respective business ventures.

About the Instructor: 

Ted Finch has studied strategy and disruptive innovation for over eight years, having worked in environments such as BYU-Idaho and BYU-Pathway Worldwide, where strategic thinking was integrated into its operations as a part of the everyday workflow. He has also served on the LDSPMA Board of Directors, helping the organization craft and update its strategy and providing LDSPMA board members with ongoing training on how to think deeply about what strategic choices they are making.

Becky Kemp

Unlock your dream: Activate the word effect process, lead your mind, and shine. Discover 3 simple words propelling you toward your dream. Break free from stagnation, lead your mind with clarity, honor commitments to yourself, and radiate your light as you become aware of the power of words and intentionally choose the words that matter, creating the life you always desired.

About the Instructor: 

Dedicated to sharing goodness, Becky Kemp loves the power found in words. As a mindset coach and leadership speaker, and author of The Word Effect: 7 Simple Words to Create Your Most Beautiful Life, Becky empowers individuals to create and share the story they have always desired to share. Positive and passionate about the power of words, Becky guides individuals in harnessing intentional language to navigate creation from within.

Emily Gould

This class will cover:

• Overcoming self doubt: Recognizing why YOU belong in the Latter-day Saint publishing, arts, and media industry.
• Embracing your individual niche: Understanding your personal God-given gifts and leaning into them to further His work.
• Creating connections: Using social media platforms to make genuine connections with your audience.

About the Instructor:

Emily Gould has been writing for over twenty years, with her first work published in 2018. Emily’s books have reached #1 on Amazon’s top seller list multiple times. Her words have spanned across nations and touched the hearts of people all over the globe. Emily’s greatest passion is helping others to feel the love that God has for them personally.

Stephen Goveia

You’re creative, but do you have what it takes to be a true entrepreneur? Learn what the 86400 concept is and how it applies to transitioning from an employee to entrepreneur. Find out if you have the mindset, determination, and gumption to succeed when striking out “on your own.” We will delve into the complex world of entrepreneurship and uncover secrets to surviving and thriving. Join and embark on a transformative journey toward entrepreneurial success.

About the Instructor: 

Early career, Steve Goveia worked with Levi Strass in Europe, at SEGA, in private equity, and in venture capital. He has been the CEO of multiple companies. The author of 86400, an entrepreneurial program with 200+ graduates, Steve is an adjunct professor of law, business, and entrepreneurship. He holds an MBA, CPA, and GPHR with post-graduate work at Stanford and Harvard. He sits on corporate boards, is an Army vet, and has been married 37 years.

Steven & Ginger Hitz

This session is NOT about spreadsheets, business plans, or feel-good motivations. It’s about lessons and foundational principles that enable you to build a successful entrepreneurial life. Learn what matters most for entrepreneurial success. Break the mold and find your purpose as Latter-day Saint creators. Assess where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there. Begin the journey of discovery that empowers you to lead your life and create your future today.

About the Instructors:

Steven and Ginger Hitz describe themselves as Baby Boomers with Millennial hearts. They study, think like, celebrate, and mentor the rising generation. As serial entrepreneurs, they have founded several businesses, employing more than 10,000 young adults.

They are co-founders of Launching Leaders, a charitable organization in over 86 countries with more than 5000 students, which teaches personal leadership principles that empower and transform. Steve is the author of Launching Leaders: An Empowering Journey for a New Generation and Entrepreneurial Foundations for Twenty and Thirty Somethings.

He has also received a Global Business and Interfaith Peace Medal from the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation in collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact Business for Peace, Global Compact Network Korea, and United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

Together, their entrepreneurial ventures have spanned insurance, banking, farming and cattle, appraisal management, real estate, and numerous franchise operations.

Sandi Dawn Rytting-Bradford

Focuses on essential finance principles for creatives. Whether you want a side hustle or to quit your job, equip yourself with practical skills to navigate business finances confidently. Learn the building blocks that bring your dreams to fruition, rather than devour time and money with strategies for budgeting, taxes, financial planning, and IRS compliance. Join us to enhance your business acumen and take your creative endeavors to the next level!

About the Instructor: 

Sandi Rytting is a #1 international best-selling author under the pen name S. Dawn Bradford, a writing coach, and owner of Lagom Accounting which provides accounting services to small businesses ranging from startups to 10 million in annual revenue. She mentors abuse survivors, is an international public speaker, and has appeared on various podcasts and radio including Voice America’s radio show, Empowering Women, Transforming Lives.

JoLynne Lyon

So, you’re leading a marketing campaign. Follow these steps to make it as ineffective as possible. (Of course, if you avoid them, you’ll reach your audience and save yourself time, effort, and money!)

About the Instructor: 

JoLynne Lyon has done PR and marketing at the Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice at Utah State University for more than 13 years. She has hired many first-time marketers, run large and small campaigns, and evaluated them for their effectiveness. Over the years she has compiled a list of things she wished she and other marketers knew.

Paul Schwartz

The Savior was the “Influencer of Influencers”. What can we learn from His example about connecting with our audience more deeply?

This session will cover 7 principles from His and other scriptural examples of how to connect with our audience more intimately. We’ll use clips from Mister Rogers Neighborhood, The Chosen livestreams, other popular YouTube channels, and more as case studies to see the principles in action and learn how to apply them!

The principles will be broadly applicable to anyone who wants to use media and technology to connect with their audience in the Savior’s way.

About the Instructor: 

Paul holds a BA in Communications from BYU, where his studies focused on children’s prosocial media effects. Paul has been an avid student of the work of Fred Rogers for his whole life, including doing multiple research trips to the Fred Rogers’ Archive in Pennsylvania and co-owning neighborhoodarchive.com. Paul most recently served as Associate Producer for American Heritage School’s worldwide campus, producing and teaching online K-8 courses. He is also a frequent producer of audio/visual media and live productions, including founding the nonprofit performing arts organization A Voice for Good in 2016.

Daniel Blomberg & Douglas Pew

Any organization needs solid systems to succeed, and your creative ministry is no different—even if it’s just you writing books, songs, or speeches in your bedroom. This is a class on entrepreneurship for creators. You will learn how to set up systems in marketing, business finance, and more, so you can move toward your goals in an organized and efficient way, and be on your way to blessing people’s lives.

About the Instructors: 

Daniel Blomberg built a six-figure music production company in just over three years with his wife and business partner Kathryn, making mainly religious music, in a place where musicians are often viewed as a “dime-a-dozen” commodity. Blomberg Music Productions works with professionals and hobbyists alike, including several of Utah’s household music names, to help flood the Earth with God’s music.

Dr. Douglas Pew is an award-winning composer of classical music. He is also a sought-after marketer and online business coach who has helped his clients make millions selling their expertise in the form of digital courses, memberships, masterminds, and coaching programs. Doug’s music is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Schott Music, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Jackman Music Corporation, and his own publishing house, Blue Shore Music.

Britten Sessions

Get your intellectual property questions answered during this virtual session with a top IP legal expert. Learn the ins and outs of intellectual property, filing for patents and trademarks, and anything else you may need to know as a practicing publisher, entrepreneur, writer, artist, or entertainer. Examine every stage of the patent process, including early-stage IP opportunities, strategic preparation and procurement of patents, and alignment of patent portfolios with business strategies.

About the Instructor: 

Britten Sessions is a professor at Gonzaga University and founder of IP Clinics at GU and Lincoln Law School of San Jose. He is a principal attorney at Zilka-Kotab PC and has advised on hundreds of patent enforcement, acquisition, licensing, and monetization transactions, yielding over $120 million in returns. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and IP books. Britten has also been recognized as one of the world’s top-ranked IP strategists by multiple organizations.

Nnamdi Okonkwo

Together we will examine the assertion that the artist is at his or her best when they are a conduit for the Spirit. We will discuss the process of receiving divine Grace with which to approach one’s craft.

About the Instructor: 

I was born in Eastern Nigeria in 1965. I am the first of three sons. I currently reside in beautiful Fayetteville, Georgia with my wife and three children.

After obtaining a Degree in painting in Nigeria, basketball became the avenue for me to come to the United States. I was recruited by BYU-Hawaii where I played from 1989-1993. It was there that I realized that my artistic sensibilities were best expressed in the three-dimensional art of sculpture, and graduated with a BFA degree with an emphasis in Sculpture. Soon after, I enrolled in the graduate program at BYU-Provo where, in 1997, I received an MFA degree in sculpture.

I now work full time out of my studio in Fayetteville. My work is represented in galleries across the country, and my large-scale monumental work can be seen in individual and public sculpture gardens as well.

Kurt Francom & Jeff McCullough

Kurt Francon and Pastor Jeff McCullough will show how they have been able to work together to bring their different faith communities closer by focusing on our Savior Jesus Christ.

About the Instructors: 

Kurt Francom is the founder and executive director of Leading Saints, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Latter-day Saints be better prepared to lead. The Leading Saints podcast is one of the premier Latter-day Saints podcasts reaching 500,000 downloads each month and a lifetime reach of 20 million total downloads. Kurt is also the author of Is God Disappointed in Me? Removing Shame from a Gospel of Grace which has become a #1 best-selling book. Kurt graduated from the University of Utah in 2008 with a degree in Business Marketing. He ran a web development company for 5 years before focusing on Leading Saints full-time in 2016. Kurt currently lives in American Fork, Utah with his lovely wife Alanna. They are blessed to have three children and a dog.

Pastor Jeff McCullough has a YouTube channel called “Hello Saints” that chronicles his journey to better understand The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jeff’s genuine curiosity and respectful approach to learning all things Latter-day Saint has earned him a loyal YouTube following of over 50,000 subscribers (including Latter-day Saints, Evangelicals, Christians, and many others), and collectively his videos have over 4.4 million views. Jeff’s experiences are intriguing, but it’s his kind, open-minded approach that has endeared him to his viewers. “Jeff has a unique personality and spirit about him that allows him to become your friend over YouTube.”

No. All sessions are prerecorded and available on-demand during the summit access window.

Access is available from May 18 – June 1.

After registering, you will receive access to the online summit portal where all sessions and resources will be available.

Yes. Sessions can be streamed from most modern devices.

Some sessions include downloadable slides, handouts, or additional resources provided by the presenter. Available materials will be included directly within the lesson portal when applicable.