Theme: Do Good Better

TEDxBYU is an event celebrating big, fresh ideas that make our world a better place. Presenters come from the university, its partners, and the local community. This 700 person event sells out within 15 minutes every year, so be prepared to purchase your tickets quickly!

Covey Center for the Arts
425 W Center St, , UT 84601
Provo, Utah, 84601
United States

Amy Blankson

Bestselling Author

Amy Blankson is the author of the bestselling book The Future of Happiness and a co-founder the Digital Wellness Collective, a forward-thinking global group of educators, mental health practitioners, software developers, and champions of tech for good working to enhance human relationships through the intentional use and development of technology. Blankson contributes regularly to Forbes, is a member of the UN Global Happiness Council, and serves as a fellow of the World Innovation Organization. She is the only person to receive a Point of Light from two US presidents.

Brian Kershisnik

Artist

Brian Kershisnik discovered his love of art during a General Architecture class at the University of Utah. Since then, he has grown to reach an ever-widening audience with the expansion of a national base of collectors and shows, as well as works featured in collections around the world. His studio practice shifts between monastic solitude In his rural Kanosh studio and communal busy-ness in his Provo studio. He now lives in Provo with his wife, Faith, their dogs, and their bees, surrounded by his three grown children.

Craig Manning

Human Performance Scientist

Dr. Craig Manning is a Human Performance Scientist and the bestselling author of The Fearless Mind. His clients include the US Ski and US Snowboarding teams, Red Bull High Performance, the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA, and a roster of companies and professionals worldwide who seek to achieve high performance. He teaches at Brigham Young University, where he is Adjunct Professor of Performance Psychology and serves as Mental Performance Consultant for the university's athletic department. Dr. Manning has found that the strongest correlation to human performance is cognitive control, or mental strength: It is how well we use our minds that matters most to human performance. Dr. Manning has played tennis at both the professional and collegiate levels, and has been a three-time Conference Coach of the Year at a Division 1 University. He has experienced human performance from the perspective of player, coach and applied scientist at the highest levels.

Dan Allen

Physicist

Dan Allen is a physicist and tech innovator who develops medical and optical sensors for smartphones and handheld devices. He is currently principal architect at the Integrated Device Technology/Renesas loT sensor team, where he focuses on the development of sensor modules for health, and spectrometer applications for health and consumer applications. Allen has more than twenty-five granted patents, is a published science-fiction and fantasy author, and participates in science and reading outreach activities with local schools.

Efosa Ojomo

Developing Economy Author

Efosa Ojomo is currently a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, where he leads global prosperity research. He works alongside Harvard professor Clayton Christensen in identifying the best ways to help entrepreneurs, policy makers, and development practitioners spur economic prosperity in low- and middle-income countries, as well as in depressed regions in high-income economies. His work has been published by the Harvard Business Review, Guardian, Quartz, and the World Bank.

Karen Dillon

NYTimes Bestselling Author

Karen Dillon has been named by Ashoka as one of the world's most influential and inspiring women. The former Editor of Harvard Business Review, Dillon coauthored the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? with Harvard professor Clayton Christensen and coauthored the forthcoming book The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations out of Poverty with Christensen and Efosa Ojomo. She is the editorial director of BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors and a senior researcher of global prosperity for the Clayton Christensen Institute.

Noelani Kamalu

Hokulea Crew Member + Teacher

Noelani Kamalu is a crew member of the historic voyaging canoe Hokulea. The canoe was built as a replica of an ancient Polynesian vessel during the second Hawaiian Renaissance-a time that saw the revitalization of Hawaiian culture and pride after decades of negative stereotypes. The Hokulea's successful voyage to Tahiti in 1976 played a major role in reigniting cultural identity. Kamalu received her bachelor's in Hawaiian language and has spent the last decade teaching at Hawaiian-focused charter schools.

Noella Moshi

Social Innovator

Noella has worked on solutions to problems of health and education across Africa. She was on the founding team of African Leadership University in Mauritius, co-founded Goodbye Malaria in South Africa, and led operations at West Africa Vocational Education (WAVE) in Nigeria.

Peter Breinholt

Recording Artist

Peter Breinholt is one of the best-known songwriters and performers of the last 25 years in the region. His debut record became the best-selling independently released album ever in the state and was described by Salt Lake Magazine, a decade after its release, as "an underground classic on Utah college campuses”. Breinholt continues to sell out shows in many of Utah's great concert halls, and was recently awarded the Utah Governor's Mansion Award for a lifetime of achievement as a songwriter and performing artist.