ST. GEORGE – Dixie State University’s weekly noontime “Dixie Forum: A Window on the World” series continues Tuesday with a presentation entitled “The Billionaires Classroom” by Dana Telford, senior consultant for the Family Business Consulting Group. The forum will be held in the Dunford Auditorium of the Browning Resource Center on the DSU campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Telford has 15 years of experience solving family business problems, and specializes in succession planning, family governance, board effectiveness, strategy, entrepreneurship and conflict management. He has advised hundreds of business families on six continents and in more than 18 different countries. Previous clients include members of the Forbes List of the world’s wealthiest, a royal family and founders of some of the world’s largest organizations.
The Dixie Forum is a lecture series designed to introduce Dixie students, faculty, and the St. George community to diverse ideas and personalities and to widen their world views. Dixie students can earn one college credit by signing up for HUM 1000, attending lectures regularly, carefully considering the ideas expressed, and writing about the presentations.
Dixie Forum – Window on the World | Spring schedule
- When: All forums are held on Tuesdays, except as otherwise noted
- Where: Dixie State University campus, Dunford Auditorium of the Browning Resource Center, 225 South 700 East, St. George.
- Contact: John Burns – 435-879-4712 or [email protected]
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| March 4 | Dana Telford, financial consultant | The billionaires classroom |
| March 11 | No Forum – DSU Spring Break | |
| March 18 | Wayne Potts, biology professor, University of Utah | Research in sugar in the diet, toxicity assessment and detecting health declines in mice |
| March 25 | Executive Creative Director Steve Babcock, Evolution Bureau, Colorado | The democratization of culture: How the content we create shapes our world |
| April 1 | Dr. Stephen Armstrong, associate professor, DSU | DSU Research Day presentations |
| April 8 | David Bish, professor of mineralogy at Indiana University, Bloomington | Mars science laboratory experiment |
| April 15 | Marnie Powers-Torrey, managing director of Books Arts Program, U of U and Red Butte Press | The art of the book: object, text, image, experience |
Submitted by Dixie State University Public Relations Department
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