MEET THE TEAM

The magic of what we do is in what we do as a team.
Each member provides an important and unique contribution to the overall goal.

We realize that the solutions we provide mean very little unless they create value for you. At the end of the day, everything we do must help produce tangible measurable results. Our work is not done until that happens. When you choose Learning Point, you are choosing a solution partner – one that will see to it that you receive the value you deserve and the results you are looking for.

OUR LEADERSHIP EXPERTS

Molly Davis

Master Facilitator and Leadership Coach. Content Advisor.

Molly has played an essential role in Learning Point’s success for over 20 years. She is a consummate trainer, thought leader, facilitator, and presenter. She has more than 30 years of experience helping individuals and organizations thrive. This includes management, customer service, human resources, training, coaching, public speaking, and writing. In her current role at Learning Point, Molly leads and coaches other trainers and facilitators, develops training curriculum, facilitates training workshops, and maintains strong, positive relationships with clients.

Prior to joining Learning Point, Molly spent 15 years at Nordstrom holding various positions, including, human resources manager. She also coauthored “Letters to Our Daughters: Mothers’ Words of Love,” a collection of photos and letters written by mothers for their daughters, sharing valuable lessons from their life experience.

In 2015, Molly also founded Trailhead Coaching and Consulting – to help individuals step more fully and courageously into their own lives by connecting who they are with how they live.

Denise Petterborg, CPA

Associate Facilitator

Denise is a favored trainer and facilitator, especially working with front-line leaders. She is well-versed in both Learning Point and Blanchard solutions. Her energetic and down-to-earth style makes her an ideal fit for both office and production environments.

In addition to her passion for helping leaders grow, she is a practicing CPA, and finds herself consulting with business teams on a variety topics (not just taxes) including talent selection, workforce development, business process improvement, and communication.

Denise holds a BA in Accounting from Washington State University. But is willing to cheer for any team that needs some extra support.

Denise resides in Portland, Oregon.

Laura Roberts

Associate Facilitator and Coach

Laura Roberts has a natural talent for helping individuals discover and leverage their strengths for personal and professional success. She is an expert in career change, sales, leadership training, and performance coaching.

Her journey began as a Division I women’s volleyball coach and evolved into a 17-year career at a global Fortune 500 company. There, she held roles in sales training, management, and as Executive Director of Leadership Development, coaching both executives and emerging leaders.   Laura is known for her dynamic, personal approach to driving change, whether in corporate settings, career transitions, or empowering women in leadership. She encapsulates her passion by saying, “My passion is enrolling individuals in their vision, cultivating insight to open possibilities, and providing encouragement to take action.”

Laura is an ICF PCC certified performance coach with her M.Ed., in Education/Sociology.

Julia Weaver

Associate Facilitator and Coach

julia.weaver@learningpointgroup.com

She is a veteran coach and skilled facilitator equipped with her MSEd, and certifications as a Professional Coach, Executive Leadership Coach, YouMap® Coach, and Disaster Recovery Coach to meet the needs of an array of diverse individuals, teams, and organizations. She has years of experience in a wide variety of disciplines. Beginning her career as a Division I college basketball coach, she began to hone her coaching muscle. In every position she has held, she has been able to weave coaching throughout every interaction. She has worked in the education world, the non-profit sector, retail, healthcare, telecommunications, consulting, and entrepreneurship.

Julia prides herself in her ability to listen and ask the “right” questions! Through the questions, she can guide YOU on YOUR journey to discover the best in you. She can help you identify and create goals and she is the ultimate supporter.

Julia has facilitated courses for leader development, trainer skilling, and personal and professional development. She is a certified facilitator and loves it! Courses, workshops, and topics she has experience delivering include Leading a Multi-Generational Workforce, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives/workshops, Leader Development, Change Management, Strategic Planning, Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Values, Trust, and even systems training such as Salesforce. <br.
Julia is a motivational speaker, and her signature topics include, The Triple Threat of Leading - Exploring the concepts of Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, and Execution, Developing Team Norms - Learn how to build trust, define expectations, and improve the way the team works together, and Develop your Xs and Os using the Fundamentals - Creating a strategy for becoming the kind of leader you want to be. All of these topics stem from her first book titled, Hoopspeak: The Xs and Os of Leading Through the Language of Basketball, released in March 2022.

Julia loves the beach and exploring small towns. Her favorite person is her niece, Sophie!</br.

Nathan Wright, Ph.D.

Operational Excellence, Senior Leadership, Maintenance

Nathan started his own consulting practice, Transformational Performance Solutions, after years of working in the manufacturing, mining, and heavy equipment industries to help plant managers, business owners, and employees mitigate expenses due to failure or inefficiencies.

His goal has been to help industries avoid costly repairs through analysis and implementation of processes that keep every aspect of the plant running smoothly.

He has partnered with plant managers on a wide variety of strategies all aimed at raising operating results, improving processes, and proactively maintaining assets. Nathan is known for saying, “best practices are good, but building next practices can significantly increase the productivity of multi-million-dollar systems that benefit both client and company alike. Nathan is the author of the Wright Leadership® Program. He is also a known authority on Proactive Reliability Program Design, Proactive Maintenance, Optimization, Workflow Management (a Programs and Skills Assessment), Total Productive Maintenance, and Storeroom Maximization. His full understanding of plant operations makes him an easy choice for senior leadership teams looking to strategically grow in safety, quality, productivity, cost reduction, and morale.

Nathan was a client of Learning Point a few years back. We were able to help help put in place leadership systems in several mining operations. Needless to say, we are thrilled to be partnering with him now on a number of opportunities.

Jade Dodge, MA, LDSS, CMS

Leadership Facilitator. Public and non-profit.

Jade Dodge is a coach and organizational development professional with over 25 years of experience in the public and non-profit sectors. This experience has given her unique insight into the challenges and pressures facing public leaders - navigating political dynamics, managing scarce resources, and building trust with stakeholders and the community.

Bringing a strengths-based, positive psychology approach to her work, her areas of expertise include change management, coaching and leadership development, team development, and strategic planning.

Jade believes everyone already has within them what they need for greatness and enjoys guiding them through their leadership journey.

OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM

Lisa Christensen

Owner and Leader of Business Operations

lisa@learningpointgroup.com

Lisa has been at the center of business support, strength, and synergy for Learning Point Group for over 33 years. Leadership comes natural to her. She provides the ideal blend of pragmatism and social grace to help our team through all sorts of ups and downs.

Lisa handles the core business systems and processes that keep Learning Point headed in the right direction. In her spare time, she also built and ran a successful interior design business for over 20 years. Oh, and raised three charming children.

Lisa enjoys hiking, movies, decorating, books, pickleball, and family. Her eight grandchildren occupy most of her time and her heart.

Lisa loves the sunny weather and redrock canyons surrounding Saint George, Utah.

Larry Hancock

Strategic Advisor – Executive Leadership

Larry Hancock has over 35 years of healthcare leadership experience. He began with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) where he served as CFO for three different HCA facilities and CEO for HCA’s St. Mark’s Hospital.

Larry was the first President/CEO of Molina Healthcare of Utah. He was also President of Altius Health Plans and served as the Utah/Nevada Region President for IASIS Healthcare where he oversaw the development of five hospitals. In addition, Larry served as Region President of Intermountain Healthcare’s Central Region, responsible for Intermountain’s five acute care adult hospitals in Salt Lake County. As senior partner with ERH Healthcare, Larry worked with other partners in managing multiple rural hospitals throughout Georgia.

Larry is currently a professor within the Master of Healthcare Administration program at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. Larry clearly knows a few things about “summit level” leadership. The wisdom he shares about senior leadership teams resonates powerfully with leaders in a wide variety of industries and environments.

Larry and his wife live at the base of the Wasatch mountains in Sandy Utah.

Owen west

Strategic Advisor – Technology

Owen is a master at making technology work as desired, as well as using information to tell the real story. He has been a wise and creative partner to Learning Point Group for many years.

One of Owen's major career milestones has been helping to bring to market American Logistics (think share rides nation wide for passengers with special needs). First as Chief Data Officer and then Chief Operations Officer, Owen was the master mind behind the complex platform that supports AL's essential service.

Owen also founded and currently operates HeliaData.

Owen received his Masters Degree in Information management from BYU. He resides with his wife and four daughters in Saint George, Utah.

OUR FOUNDER

Mark Christensen

Founder & Advisor

Mark Christensen founded Learning Point Group in 1989. Since day one, he has been the creative force behind its content, tools, and learning solutions. He has a special gift for speaking the language of the “leaders in the trenches” and giving leaders at all levels the tools to excel in their challenging roles. Mark has a passion for workplace learning and is extremely talented at creating targeted learning solutions that address relevant business needs.

Mark is also enjoying his role as a senior consulting partner with the Blanchard organization – which puts him in front of leaders around the world on a weekly basis. This is an experience and affiliation that Mark truly cherishes.

His professional background includes partnering with senior leadership teams to truly "lead as one" as they fortify culture, implement strategy, grow talent, engage people, and increase operating results. Mark has had the privilege of working with a wide variety of organizations in numerous sectors and industries, including federal, state and local governments, utilities, energy, aerospace, electronics, mining, wood products, hospitality, and health care. He has developed numerous leadership processes and tools that are being used by organizations throughout the world. In all his projects, Mark emphasizes the vital need to tie learning efforts to the performance goals of the organization.

Mark holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Communication from Brigham Young University. He and his wife Lisa divide their time between Saint George, Utah and Vancouver, Washington. They have three amazing children, two beautiful daughters-in-law, one talented son-in-law, and nine angelic yet energetic grandchildren.