Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Delin

I am super excited to have you with us today and of course we are joined today by my partner and co-host on Mormon Stories

Carabarell. Hey Cara. Hello. Hello John Delin. How's it going great? I'm excited for this one.

Feel good. Yeah. Good to see you. All right. Well today

We are super excited to have with us in studio

Dr. Jonathan Westover. Hey Dr. Westover or John as you like to be called. How's it going? Good. I'm doing well. Thank you

For those of you who aren't familiar with John Westover. Let me just go ahead and read a quick bio

He is a professor and chair of organizational leadership in the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University

He's also academic director of the UVU Center for Social Impact and the UVU SimLab and faculty fellow for ethics in

public life his PhD is from the University of Utah and

It's kind of organizational behavior and human resources is the way I think about it now with that kind of more formal stuffy introduction

How do you characterize kind of who you are and what you do?

Yeah, what I'm doing now professionally

You said it. I consider myself a scholar practitioner

So I'm in the university space and I do a lot of work at UVU, but I also try to have practical application and what I do

so I do consulting on the side I

do

Business oriented HR and organizational leadership publications for practitioner audiences and I also run

My own podcast the human capital innovations podcast that

That focuses on those sorts of practical topics for organizational leaders to know how to better run their teams and have effective organizations

My PhD from the University of Utah was in sociology

So you know, Sociologies are very broad field

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