President Stephen D. Nadauld is currently the president of Dixie State College, and has also served as the president of Weber State University and taught at the University of Utah and BYU.  He earned a degree in chemistry from BYU, an MBA from Harvard Business School and PhD from UC Berkley.  In the church he has been a scoutmaster, bishop, member of a stake presidency, a regional representative and a general authority.  He also presided over the Switzerland Geneva Mission.  He is the author of 3 books.  Sister Nadauld served as the Young Women General President from 1997 to 2002. She has also served on the Relief Society General Board, on the Board of Trustees for the church educational system, and as a ward Relief Society and Young women president.  She attended Snow College and has a degree from BYU.  
She has taught high school English in Utah and Massachusetts.  Brother and Sister Nadauld are the parents of seven sons and 27 grandchildren.

Married for 36 years, they have shared parenting, church service and missionary work.  Brother Thompson presided over the Hamburg Germany mission from 2007-2010. He’s also served as a stake president and bishop and was a vice-president and hospital administrator with Intermountain Health Care for 31 years. He graduated from the University of Utah with a BA and MBA. Sister Thompson has a degree in English from the U. of U. and loved being home raising their four children. She taught preschool for 11 years after her children were in school and has served in every church auxiliary. She currently is a member of the Relief Society General Board.

Working for the Church has literally taken the Bonnet family around the world. Georges Bonnet was born in Germany, and joined the LDS church in France at the age of 16.  He served a French Polynesia Mission, and finished his college studies at Arizona State University where he earned a construction engineering degree. He and his wife Carolyn have spent 18 years living overseas in Tahiti, Germany, England, South Africa and Ghana where Brother Bonnet directed temple building, managed physical facilities, or directed temporal affairs for the church. His most recent overseas assignment was four years in in Ghana where he was responsible for the Accra Ghana temple project. Their six children were born in Utah, Arizona, Louisiana, Tahiti, England and South Africa.  Currently Brother Bonnet lives in Salt Lake City and is the Director of Maintenance and Operations for the Church in the Physical Facilities Department. He is also a temple sealer.

As the director of the Institute of Religion in Cedar City, Alan Gudmundson also has ample access to red rock country where he runs, rock climbs and enjoys canyoneering. His favorite part of Cedar City, though, is the classroom where he has the opportunity to teach the gospel. He began his CES career as a seminary teacher in Montpelier, Idaho and has also taught in Smithfield, Utah, taught Institute in Logan and at the University of Wisconsin. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and has two degrees from Utah State University. He and his wife Elizabeth have four children.

Currently the Seminary Principal and coordinator at Syracuse High School, Brother Spackman has also taught for the Church Education System in Smithfield, Hurricane, and been a coordinator in Chicago. He attended Utah State University and served a mission to Recife, Brazil. He loves fitness, sports, music, movies and coaching his children.  He and his wife Kerri are the parents of eight children.

Aida Mattingley, a native of the Philippines, was the only member of her family to convert from Catholicism to the LDS faith.  She came to the United States in 1975, and for 36 years she has lived an amazing life of community service while being a professional teacher and librarian.  In her early years in Utah it was a struggle to fit in as a dark skinned person in a predominantly white community, but her philosophy has been to look at “what she can do for the community rather than what the community can do for her.”  Her tenacity to serve is perennial and contagious.  She has chaired the Utah Humanities Council, and the Governor’s Asian Council, and was president of the Salt Lake Council of Women.  Sister Mattingly has served on numerous boards and committees that foster welfare reform, diversity training and the arts. Her goal is to inspire and empower others.  She and her husband Kent, are the parents of one son.

Jason Webb is the clinical director of the STEPS Recovery Center, a drug and alcohol addiction treatment facility in Payson.  He has a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Utah, and is a licensed substance abuse counselor. Brother Webb is also a certified mediator.  He worked as the clinical director of The Ark of Little Cottonwood, a residential substance abuse facility, and as a counselor at the Utah State Prison. He was born in Whittier, California, and also spent some growing up years in the Phoenix area. His bachelor’s degree is in Family Science from BYU.  Brother Webb and his wife Melanie are the parents of five boys, and are expecting a baby girl in August.

JD Gardner is the CEO of ZenPrint, and he also runs Monarch Partners, a venture-oriented investment fund that he founded in 2005.  Through Monarch Partners, Brother Gardner has supported as an angel investor a number of rapidly growing startups such as Omniture, Ancestry.com, Skull Candy, Logoworks, Allegiance, and Stance and Fundley.  He also co-founded and seed funded successful operating businesses such as ZenPrint, Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill and Longboards Vintage Ice Cream.  Prior to Monarch, Brother Gardner worked as an investment professional and Venture Partner with Spring Capital, an early-stage regional venture fund.  He also worked in investment banking and strategy consulting with Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company. Brother Gardner studied Applied Math and Economics at BYU and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in June 2000. He and his wife Sarah live in Sandy, and are the parents of two children.  He has a passion for travel, action sports and his family.

For 31 years John Harding has taught seminary and Institute in New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, and now at the Institute of Religion in Logan. He grew up on a farm in Myton, Utah where he loved the animals so much that he wanted to become a veterinarian. A mission to England changed that career plan as he developed a deep love for teaching. He and his wife Lorie have five sons and a daughter and are blessed with 8 grandchildren.