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Ted Paulsen

Leadership Alignment and Personal Resilience Coach and Speaker
LaRae Wright

LaRae Wright

Transformative Coach
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Fritz Black

Alletrust CEO, Trainer, and Speaker
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Jennifer K. Carlson

Mental Health Counselor, Trainer, and Speaker
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Dale Meador

Scaling Up Coach
Joel Huff

Joel Huff

Mental Health Counselor, Trainer, and Speaker
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Noelle Berry

Mental Health First Aid Trainer

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Leadership Alignment and Personal Resilience Coach and Speaker

Ted Paulsen

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.

Areas of Engagement
Company Packaging, Culture Development, Workplace Resilience
Fun Personal Facts
Along the way I became a professional speaker, certified Scaling Up leadership coach, and, most importantly, a husband, father, and grandfather of almost 13. Ask me to hike, mountain bike, swim, fly fish, or golf and I’m in. Which leads me back to a 300 foot cliff and a strand of dental floss.
Professional Highlights
Entrepreneur and business owner (a few times over), corporate and securities attorney, CFO/COO of a publicly traded company, C-suite experience
Courses
Establishing Core Values, Team Engagement, Resiliency
Availability
Online, on-demand course material, virtual appearances, live appearances.

Transformative Coach and Leader

LaRae Wright

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.

Areas of Engagement
Leadership Development, Change Management, Professional Development
Fun Personal Facts
I am adventurous, love to travel and immerse myself in new cultures. After a rewarding career, I married late in life to the love of my life and together we engage in meaningful conversations with couples on how we nurture our relationship and finding meaning in life. I absolutely love the role of Auntie, have a passion for the dance of words and tone in conversations and find stillness in making sourdough bread.
Professional Highlights
Corporate Executive (Fortune 100 company - financial services, Healthcare – 47 hospital system), Entrepreneur (consultant to Fortune 100 companies, M&A, large scale change) and Leadership and Business Coach to Entrepreneurs, Corporate Executives and Professionals.
Courses
Real Communication, Navigating Change
Availability
Online, on-demand course material, virtual appearances, live appearances.

Alletrust CEO, Trainer, and Speaker

Fritz Black

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.

Areas of Engagement
Workplace safety, Leadership, Culture, Manufacturing
Professional Highlights
Started as an hourly worker and moved through many manufacturing positions up to factory manager. Now the CEO of AlleTrust Inc.
Courses
Leadership Through Safety, Legacy Through Safety, Culture Through Safety, Collaborative Coaching
Availability
Contact Max Reid for availability.
max@throughsafety.com
1 (385) 238-1899

Mental Health Counselor, Trainer, and Speaker

Jennifer Carlson

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.

Areas of Engagement
Resilience, Clinical Supervision, Critical Incident Debriefing and Stabilization, Trauma Recovery
Fun Personal Facts
In my free time you can find me in the mountains; skiing, hiking, and trail running.
Professional Hightlights
Clinical Director, Clinical Supervisor, Clinical Consultant, Business Owner
Courses
Resilience, Mindfulness, Meditation, Positive Psychology
Availability
In person, virtual, on demand course material

Scaling Up Coach

Dale Meador

 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. 

Areas of Engagement
Establish vision and the foundation for a healthy culture, select the right hires and develop team members into disciplined leaders, build a culture of winning and transparency through financial literacy, craft an intelligent strategy for marketplace dominance, and use a system for relentless execution with planning, accountability, and communication.
Fun Personal Facts
I am married to Melina, and we have a daughter, Samantha, and two sons, Rex and Bradley. While I grew up in the Midwest, we love and call the Pacific Northwest home. We love to eat great food in Seattle, go powerboating in and around Puget Sound, and spend time with our family and friends - preferably with a good bottle of WA red wine.
Professional Highlights
I led two companies through successful exits, helped a consumer goods company achieve high-leverage changes in shipping, sales, and distribution that resulted in millions in savings, and aided a high-growth company create an employee culture of mini-CEOs and ownership, resulting in a 26% increase in revenue and a 100% doubling of profits.
Availability
Online, virtual appearances, live appearances

Mental Health Counselor, Trainer, and Speaker

Joel Huff

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.

Areas of Engagement
Mental Health psychoeducation, Company Trainings, Cultural Connection Presentations, Individual and group therapy.
Fun Personal Facts
I can ride a unicycle and my son is a miracle boy who was born weighing only 1lb 3 oz.
Professional Highlights
Excited to celebrate three years with VEST! I worked in a residential treatment center for substance abuse for five years before joining the VEST team. I was nominated for a Jeff award for acting in Chicago. I studied abroad as an actor in Moscow, Russia.
Courses
Resiliency, Leadership, Stress Management, Finding Flow, and Self Care.
Availability
Online, on-demand course material, virtual appearances, live appearances, individual and group therapy.

Social Worker, Mental Health First Aid Trainer

Noelle Berry

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.

Areas of Engagement
Mental Health First Aid Training, Individual and group therapy
Fun Personal Facts
I am originally from North Carolina, my southern accent comes out the most when I am tired and angry. So you probably won’t get the chance to hear it.
Courses
Mental Health First Aid
Availability
In-person, virtual, and blended