Tom develops leaders around the world through his teaching and coaching.  He has spent many years focusing on communications, team and individual performance improvement, innovation, change leadership and general management and leadership development, leveraging his background in Organizational Psychology and Organization Development.

Appian Leadership is the most recent of Tom’s entrepreneurial ventures. He has previously founded or co-founded four companies focused on various domains of the leadership development industry, ranging from advanced leadership communication to high-impact, high-intensity experiential learning. He is pleased to bring together these experiences to provide a full suite of executive development services through Appian Leadership.

In addition to these ventures, Tom was also previously a Managing Director at Duke Corporate Education, one of the world’s leading providers of customized executive education, where he led teams to design and deliver exceptional learning experiences for their clients.  Prior to his time at Duke CE, he was a Senior Associate in Booz Allen Hamilton’s award-winning corporate university.

Tom also spent several years as a full-time actor and writer, performing on stage and on film, and recording many audio books.  During those years, he managed to avoid both the food-services industry and substantial fiscal success, but did discover many interesting metaphors for learning.

Tom’s academic career is varied—he holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University in Organizational Psychology with a focus in Organization Development consulting; a conservatory certificate in Acting from the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard; and a Bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard University.  He has written several fiction and non-fiction books, and published articles in the Encyclopedia of Career Development and the journal, Dialogue. His most recent publication is The Leadership Check-Up, which he co-authored with Jared.

Tom has had the good fortune to work with many exceptional organizations in the professional services, technology, healthcare, food and beverages, defense, government, and not-for-profit sectors. All told, he has worked with clients in 31 countries on 6 continents.

Jared is a thought leader, advisor, teacher, and coach specializing in accelerating leadership, formulating strategy, increasing performance, and leading change. Jared consults with leaders and companies to achieve greater levels of effectiveness, productivity and success by working with organizations and leaders to become more skilled at creating and translating strategy, leading change, creating cultures that support agility and innovation, and communicating more effectively.  He has worked directly with and coached CEOs and executives of many globally recognized brands, including Coca-Cola, Verizon, American Express, PwC, Cisco, Chanel and others. He consults and advises regularly on strategy, change leadership, innovation and creativity, team performance and other topics.  He has helped to build leadership programs and change processes for some of the world’s leading global companies – to execute strategy, build leaders, and transform organizations.

A former partner with Mercer Consulting and former Executive Director at Duke Corporate Education, Jared has also served as faculty in Duke University’s Psychology & Neuroscience Department, The Harvard Institute for Higher Education, and the Executive Leadership and Management Institute at Stanford University. He began his career at Harvard University, where he taught courses on leadership and management. 

He is currently managing partner of Authentic, an advisory firm specializing in talent strategy and leader development, and devotes much of his free time as a board member of his local chapter of The American Red Cross.

Jared is author of The Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies are Developing Their Talent for Future Success, which documents best practices in leadership development. He has written and published numerous other book chapters and articles and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal,The New York Times, The Financial Times, and other business and education publications.  

He holds masters and doctoral degrees from Harvard University and a bachelors degree from Brigham Young University. 

Carrie is a senior at Utah State University studying psychology and business management with an emphasis in human resources. Alongside her studies, she is involved in a number of activities that deepen and leverage her interests in leadership, personal growth and service.

Carrie is a current chair of the Jon M. Huntsman Business Council at USU where she primarily focuses on event planning and marketing efforts for the University’s College of Business; works at the Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center in Logan, UT where she provides workshops and coaching for USU students; holds a position on the President’s Cabinet for USU’s Student Body President where she assists in developing new value for her University and strengthening student connections across campus; and was nominated and selected as a finalist for one of the university’s most prestigious awards, the Bill E. Robins Award, for her academic achievement, university involvement, and leadership.

As a college freshman, Carrie started a non-profit business, Clothing with Care, where she regularly organizes clothing drives for local shelters like CAPSA and The Family Place, as well as for women’s shelters in Salt Lake County. Carrie also served on her sorority’s leadership team as the chapter’s VP of Public Relations.

Carrie’s interest in developing 751 comes from her passion for helping others grow and her drive to empower others to make lasting and meaningful change in their lives. The 751 principle has impacted her own life for the better and she is eager to share it.

Maddie is passionate about helping people become their best self. Maddie enjoys being able to help others realize their potential through principles of psychology and methods of growth and development. She loves learning how the mind works and how to implement skills that rewire the brain and initiate growth. Maddie received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Family Life from Brigham Young University, where she conducted research on Positive Psychology. Following college, she worked as a Case Manager in the Behavioral Health field. She leverages these experiences in Appian’s ongoing effort to translate the best research in psychology, performance and behavior improvement into content and experiences that are readily understood and easily applied.