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2024 CONFERENCE RESOURCES:
Dr John Skidmore
Speaker
Dr. Jon Skidmore, Psych D., will be bringing two workshops. The first will help you battle "Imposter Syndrome", which can impede peak performance. The second workshop will be on increasing your confidence as a public speaker, so you can blow them away at your next City Council meeting? He will also be bringing a free copy of his book to share. He has worked with musicians and performers across the country helping them to train how to put themselves in the best mental position to perform!
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Dr Paul Hill
Speaker
Dr. Paul Hill, Ph.D., will be teaching us about the future capabilities of artificial intelligence, but more importantly, how to put to artificial inteiligence to work for you to help simplify some of the daily operations treasurers deal with. Be sure to bring your laptops for this one if you can! In 2015 his work earned him Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology. His work will be relevant to many of you as he has worked on various initiatives for expanding online access in rural communities in Utah.
2024 AI Presentation
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Dan Jessen
Speaker
Dan Jessen is a simpleton farm kid from New Harmony Utah with a knack crashing vehicles and fixing things. He dumb-lucked into finding a beautiful wife and they popped out six amazing kids. After Graduating from SUU with a degree in Finance, he spent the first half of his adult life running his own businesses and then going to work for a large corporation in the telecommunications industry. After 3 years of pain and suffering in the corporate world and surviving 3 rounds of layoffs, Dan found himself as a director over an eliminated division of the Company. It turns out this job title has an annual salary of zero, so he was forced to reinvent himself as a “Government Finance Professional”. The things we do to live where we want to live, am I right? Re-starting out as a City Treasurer at Enoch City, Dan fell in love with governmental budgeting, no seriously. This weird personality flaw eventually led to a couple of terms as the Iron County Auditor where he managed 27 funds and a 75-million-dollar annual budget. In this role he was the CFO, Head Accountant, and Budget Officer. Basically, he was an elected accountant, go figure. Despite the oxymoronic nature of this job, Dan really liked where he was and is still not sure how he ended up becoming the Parowan City Manager in the fall of 2022 but thinks it may have been an elaborate kidnapping scheme involving a taco truck and a blindfold. Ever since he crossed over to the dark side of management, he has forgotten almost everything that smart people know, as one does. However, he found one of his old PowerPoint presentations and is happy to be here today sharing some government bean counting secrets to budgeting success.
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Cameron Diehl, ULCT
Speaker
Cameron Diehl became the Executive Director on October 16, 2017. Cameron studied political science at the University of Utah, was the Editor of the Hinckley Institute Journal of Politics, and later graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law. He started his career at ULCT as a legislative intern and returned to ULCT in 2010. During his time at ULCT, he has also been an administrative assistant, policy analyst, attorney, and Director of Government Relations. He previously worked for the Boys and Girls Club in Salt Lake City and coached basketball and football at Justice (CO), Fairview (CO), and Murray (UT) High Schools. He is an avid University of Utah fan; his paternal grandparents had their first date during the Utah State-Utah game on Thanksgiving Day in 1944 and Cameron and his family have been fixtures at Utah football games ever since. Meanwhile, his maternal grandparents met at BYU and his grandfather was later the mayor of Glenns Ferry, Idaho for 24 years. Cameron is a Murray native where he was a member of the Murray City Youth Council and attended ULCT Local Officials Day. Cameron and his wife Rachel are the proud parents of Annelise, who visited three national parks with her parents before she was four months old and Sierra, who was born during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ask Cam anything about local government, Utah history, Utah football, Jazz basketball, or politics.
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Dr. Chris Healy
Speaker
Dr. Chris Healy is currently an Assistant Professor of Management at Utah Tech where she teaches Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, and Management. She holds a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, an MA in Human Resource Management, and several professional certifications. Chris’s 30+ years of professional experience includes development and implementation of several employee talent acquisition and performance management programs for companies such as Blue Bunny Ice Cream, Performance Foodservice, Sysco, SUU, and McLane. Chris is currently the U.S. Small Business Administration’s subject matter expert for the T.H.R.I.V.E. program. Dr. Chris is the owner of Healyum Human Resources. LLC and has been a contributor to many boards and committees to include the State Workforce Investment Board, Color Country Human Resources Associations, Associated General Contractors (AGC) St. George Workforce Readiness Committee, Leadership Dixie Board, Because International Accelerator Program, and Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR).
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Mark McRae
Speaker
Mark McRae recently retired as the Finance Director for South Weber City. Prior to this position, Mark was the Treasurer of Bountiful, Utah for 15 years. Mark has a total of 47 years in municipal public service. He has been an instructor for the Public Treasury Institute since 2003, traveling throughout the US teaching cashiering, investments, leadership, and other treasury topics with the Institute. He is a co-author of the Public Treasury Institute’s book, Highly Competent Cashiers and has taught these topics to hundreds of cashiers in the public and private sector.
He has his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Utah, with a major in accounting. He has completed additional studies in computer science, corporate leadership, and employee motivation. Mark has held numerous leadership positions in state and national associations representing treasury officials and played a key role for the state of Utah in investment policy development. Mark is a long-standing member and past president of the Utah Association of Public Treasurers.
Mark has five children and 11 grandchildren. He has been involved as a volunteer leader in the Boy Scouts of America for over 55 years.
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Jason Whipple
Speaker
Emergency Preparedness - Washington County Emergency Management Director
2024 Emergency Preparedness
2023 CONFERENCE RESOURCES:
Keynote Speaker
Kirk Weisler
With over eighteen years of executive coaching, speaking, research, and professional experience, Kirk’s perspective is simple and unpretentious, and his suggestions are applicable and undiluted. Kirk understands that your work life is more than a commute and a paycheck. You will spend most of your conscious week at work, thinking about work, or driving to work. Therefore, Kirk believes in seeing your work life as your life’s work (outside of your home and family). With that in mind, how can you make your life’s work more meaningful, fulfilling, and rewarding?
Full Biography
Marlo Oaks
Utah State Treasurer
Marlo Oaks was appointed Utah’s 26th State Treasurer in June 2021. As the state’s chief investment and chief banking officer Marlo is responsible for debt, cash, and investments, including the $30 billion Public Treasurer’s Investment Fund. He also administers Utah’s Unclaimed Property Division.
Marlo spent 17 years overseeing multi-billion dollar investment portfolios. He is one of only two state treasurers with institutional investment experience. Marlo completed a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from BYU, an MBA from UCLA Anderson, and holds the CFA and CAIA designations.
https://treasurer.utah.gov/
Dennis Johnson
Unclaimed Property
Dennis Johnston became the Administrator of the Utah Unclaimed Property Division in October 2011. He was elected as the President of the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) for 2018. NAUPA is a network of the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST). Mr. Johnston earned his MBA from Utah State University and a BS from BYU.
He received a commission from the US Navy as a Supply Corps Officer and retired following 20 years of service mainly as a Reserve Officer. He also worked for over 25 years as a Trust Officer for some of the banks in the Salt Lake City area. As a corporate fiduciary, he worked in estate settlement, trust administration, sales, and compliance functions.
Avocations include beekeeping, gardening, hiking, camping, fishing, and his favorite is being called “Pop Pop” to 11 very active grandchildren.
Jim Clayton - Utah State Tax Commission
Utah sales tax, including history, taxability of transactions, sourcing to localities, distribution, trends and reporting to local governments.
Cyber & Crime Insurance Planning
Bryan Childs - Olympus Insruance
Over the past two years public agencies have been severely impacted by a myriad of cyber risks, including ransomware, theft of protected information, and social engineering or impersonation fraud. In this presentation will be a review of Crime and Cyber Liability insurance programs, how insurance coverage would apply to specific cyber incidents; and best practices to ensure that our policies will be responsive if our agency is the victim of a cyber-attack or other cyber related incident.
Scott Burnett - Zions Bank
Inflation, Interest Rates & The Economy; what can we expect to see, what is predicted to happen, and what an you do about it.
Online Forms & Payment Processors
Jordan Hales, Spanish Fork City Treasurer
This session will cover the different options for payment processing and which options work best for different scenarios. Also covered will be the use of online forms to replace physical forms and the benefits this provides to both customers and staff.
Membership Directory
Rock & Roll Leadership 2.0 "The Remix"
Jonathan Baker, Zions Bank
The focus of Jon’s presentation is demonstrating how the principles of leadership are intertwined with rock and roll music. The emotional and physical connection to music is so powerful that it has produced leaders who have influenced generations. Building on the presentation Jon shared with UAPT in 2019, Jon will share new ideas and concepts to develop leadership ability with an emphasis on developing the upcoming talent around you.
Corper James - Mabey, Wright, James PLLC
With rapid changing federal and state regulatory employment law, this session will update the latest issues, center on protected class issues, and medical issues relating to American’s with Disabilities Act and Family Medical Leave Act.
Tyson Beck - Bountiful City
This presentation is intended to provide an understanding of internal controls and illustrate their importance, identify work environments that provide opportunities for theft and fraud, and discuss practical examples of how to implement internal controls over high-risk areas.
A Balanced Life
Zoe Thomas - Womens' Onewheel Champion, Miss Delta 2021
What do Onewheel, Treasury and life in general have in Common?
They all take balance to be successful.
Learn how to balance your life through the fun and exciting view of Onewheel from the women's champion and lifelong Utahan.
Click the link to see what Onewheel is all about:
https://youtu.be/pRz29y5v9hE
2019 CONFERENCE RESOURCES
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