Building Utah

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Every business owner reaches a point where they turn to someone else to handle payroll and human resources, and one of those firms is Bamboo HR. Here’s sales rep Doug Nelson with more. DOUG NELSON: At BambooHR, we’re on a mission to make HR and payroll software easy to use, so you can grow your people and your business. After all, that's exactly what we've done as a company. We were founded in 2008, right here in Utah, with the goal of creating a place where people would love to work. Twelve-hundred employees and three million users later, we think it's working! We always put people first, whether we’re building our own culture or tools to help businesses take care of their people every step of the way—from hiring to employee experience, reporting, performance, time tracking, and payroll. Plus, people actually like calling our award-winning customer support! That’s what makes BambooHR the most user-friendly all-in-one HR system you’ll ever use. Learn mor

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Cooper Savas is a full-service public accounting firm with offices in Salt Lake City and Cottonwood Heights. Jason Howell recently became a full partner at the firm and is here to tell us more. JASON HOWELL: Taxes are one of the biggest expenses for business owners. At Cooper Savas, we know what it takes to comply and minimize tax expense. As business leaders continually create value, they need clarity of the financial framework in which they are making decisions. Knowing their regulatory demands and opportunities gives them the confidence to grow. Cooper Savas expertly guides local companies as well as those with worldwide operations through their unique situations with a focus on their success. Cooper Savas skillfully plans, consults, and prepares tax returns and provisions. Our audit group is the go-to team for employee benefit plan audits. We navigate complex requirements so that Utah’s businesses can thrive in what they do best. Founded right here in U

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Utah is fortunate to have many inspiring nonprofits which do so much good in our communities. One of these is Saprea, located in Lehi. Here is Managing Director Chris Yadon to tell us more. CHRIS YADON: Saprea is a nonprofit dedicated to liberating individuals and society from child sexual abuse and its lasting impacts. Did you know that 1 in 5 children will be sexually abused this year across the U.S.? The numbers aren’t any different in Utah. Created in 2014, Saprea is leading the charge against child sexual abuse by using proven, practical methods for confronting and overcoming child sexual abuse. Our services and resources are focused on healing and prevention and are free thanks to the generosity of our donors and partners. Today is Giving Tuesday, a day when we ask others to join the fight against this silent epidemic. Everyone has something to give, and every act of generosity counts. At Saprea, we imagine a world where all children grow up feeling lov

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Rocky Vista University opened its Utah campus in 2017 and has already graduated over 200 osteopathic physicians who are now training in residency programs across the nation. Senior Associate Dean Dr. Stephen Miller has more. Stephen Miller: Rocky Vista’s Southern Utah campus, located near St. George, prepares Osteopathic students for clinical training throughout Utah. Our mission is to place more primary care physicians in rural medicine where the nation’s critical shortages exist. About 70% of our graduates enter residencies in Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics. We are succeeding with the help of our clinical training partners throughout Utah. Our students have excellent board scores and pass rates and are accepted into highly competitive residencies such as Surgery, Obstetrics and Medical Sub-specialties. They are well prepared. We are attracting outstanding students from across the country. About 45% of our incoming students are from

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Utah is blessed with a wide variety of financial institutions and one of those is UMB Bank. David Andersen is the Market President for UMB Bank in Utah and shares more about his bank offers. DAVID ANDERSEN: UMB Bank is more than a financial institution. We are a collection of people with personality, passion, and a commitment to you. For more than 109 years we’ve been dedicated to high-touch relationships, responsive service, and prudent business practices. As we’ve grown, our standards have not changed. We remain committed to serving with integrity, trust, and meeting the needs of our customers and communities. Utah has a robust economy with thriving industries, and we’re proud to call it home. With nearly 250 associates in Utah across our Fund Services, Corporate Trust, and Commercial Banking teams, we’re dedicated to building specific and tailored solutions. This attention to detail and our agile structure means more – more time, more efficiency, and more

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Each October is National Work and Family Month during which businesses are asked to promote healthier and more flexible work environments. Here’s Paige Frame, the president of McKinnon-Mulherin, with more. PAIGE FRAME: McKinnon-Mulherin is excited to celebrate National Work and Family month. For twenty-five years, McMul’s core value of flexibility has motivated us to hire exceptional writers and editors who make time for both their family AND career. McMul’s goal is to bring clarity to a cluttered world, and who knows about clutter better than moms and dads? Our McMul team doesn’t have to choose between work and family—no matter what family looks like to them. They can advance their career from home while still being there for their kids, supporting an aging parent, or volunteering in their community. Offering a flexible culture lets us widen our pool of professionals. Not only is supporting families the right thing to do, it also means our clients get the be

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. CCI Mechanical is involved in the design, installation, and maintenance of mechanical systems for commercial and industrial facilities throughout the West. Greg LaHue, CCI’s pre-construction manager, shares more. GREG LAHUE: Utah is one of the fastest growing states in the country with a changing skyline and robust construction activity. This includes multifamily apartments, high rises, US government facilities, manufacturing plants and many other projects. CCI Mechanical is a full-service design and build mechanical trade partner providing support to the construction industry. CCI Mechanical was established in 1961. Since then, some of the notable buildings we’ve been a part of include Vivint Smart Home Arena, City Creek Center and many of the large office buildings supporting Utah’s Silicon Slopes. Mechanical construction can be challenging which is why we take full responsibility for the mechanical systems we design, build, and ultimately maintain throughou

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Today most offices and stores are closed as we celebrate Thanksgiving – a perfect time to reflect on its history. Over 400 years ago, in 1621, a small band of English colonists arrived in North America seeking freedom to worship as they wanted. Their rescue by Native Americans is the story of legend and the basis for our celebration today. Utah’s first Thanksgiving came more than two centuries later. In 1848, like the Pilgrims, Mormon pioneers were escaping to a new land to worship as they wanted, but like the Pilgrims, they faced their own issues of near starvation. Fortunately, just as the Pilgrims experienced two centuries earlier, Native Americans came to the rescue, teaching their pioneer neighbors how to find edible plants and survive. Two years went by before Territorial Governor Brigham Young proclaimed that January 1st would be the “Day of Praise and Thanksgiving” – encouraging Utahns to spend the day as families, prayerfully sharing their hearts

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. One of the first and most critical steps for any business owner is to obtain health insurance. Rick Lindquist is the founder of LegUp Health and shares what his firm offers. RICK LINDQUIST: Buying your own health insurance is the worst. Most Utahns try to solve this problem on their own — using healthcare.gov or “going direct” to a health insurance company or an insurance agent. This process takes effort, and you waste time trying to figure it out and, in the end, you still don’t know if you’ve made the right decision. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone simplified the process? LegUp Health is a year-round service that helps Utahns find and manage their own health insurance. If you already have coverage, we’ll manage it for you at no additional cost. Create a free account at leguphealth.com, connect your plan, and make us your agent today. We’ll take care of the rest. You’ll save money, save time, and sleep better knowing we have your back. If you don’t have hea

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Shriners Children’s Salt Lake City, provides orthopedic care to children, regardless of ability to pay. Here’s Dawn Wright, the marketing and communications director of the Shriners Children’s location here in Salt Lake with more. DAWN WRIGHT: At Shriners Children’s Salt Lake City, we serve children with orthopedic conditions – from the simple to the complex. Patients receive services in a family-centered environment, regardless of ability to pay. Patients at Shriners Children’s hospital have many resources under one roof – from meeting with their doctor in clinic, and advanced diagnostics in our motion analysis center, to custom prosthetics and orthotics, wheelchairs and therapy. Our expertise was recently acknowledged by U.S. News and World Report, which ranked us, alongside Primary Children’s Hospital, among the best in the country for orthopedic care. We also help our patients’ social and emotional development, such as when our staff makes Halloween c

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Tooele Technical College is one of Utah’s eight state-sponsored technical colleges that concentrate on providing affordable and flexible training for high-wage jobs. Here’s Tooele Technical College President Paul Hacking with more. PAUL HACKING: Tooele Tech is unique. We pride ourselves on being small enough to know our students and large enough to respond to Utah’s workforce training needs. Tooele Technical College provides competency-based, high-tech training for jobs that are in demand today We train people for manufacturing positions, law enforcement jobs, nursing and more. We take pride in providing each student access to occupationally relevant careers in an individually rewarding college environment. A lot of our programs can be completed in a year or less. In most of our programs, students can tailor their schedules around their personal lives. This allows high school students, adults, and working professionals to earn a certificate while balancing

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. HNTB Corporation has designed many projects across the United States, including the Salt Lake Airport and projects for the Utah Department of Transportation. HNTB’s SLC Office Leader Dominic Spaethling has more. DOMINIC SPAETHLING: The one-year anniversary of the federal government’s trillion-dollar ‘Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” is coming up and that legislation is providing billions to states and local governments to upgrade outdated roads, bridges, transit systems, airports and more. It’s part of the biggest federal infrastructure investment in half-a-century, and a game changer for the people of Utah. With that funding we are seeing an unprecedented flurry of construction activity gearing up, moving transportation projects that have long been on the back burner into action mode. This means good jobs, greater investments in our infrastructure, and enhanced mobility for every community, even those that have been underserved in the past. At HNTB,

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Hanko Kiessner was born in Germany and is the co-founder of Packsize, the leading global on-demand manufacturer of on-demand packing technology headquartered in Utah and with operations in 28 countries. Here’s Hanko with more. HANKO: My wife Laura and I co-founded Packsize in Salt Lake City in 2002 with a simple mission: promoting the wise use of resources and reducing reliance on oversized boxes with unnecessary empty space. How many times have you ordered a small item only to find that it comes in a giant box filled with pesky air pillows or even Styrofoam? We eliminate that waste, saving our customers money while protecting the environment. Since our founding, Packsize has helped more than 2,000 partners, including major retailers and manufacturers, build customized packaging processes that have revolutionized businesses without compromising our climate. We started by offering right-sized packaging, using less paper, and creating less waste to support

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Terracon is an employee-owned engineering firm with over 5000 employees and 175 offices nationwide. Darlene Batatian is the Senior Client Development Manager and shares more about what Terracon offers. DARLENE BATATIAN: Terracon has been in Utah since 1980 and thanks to Utah’s robust economy, our Utah team has grown to 150 engineers, scientists, technicians & administrative staff, and we are celebrating our expansion into northern Utah with a new office and lab based in Ogden. Terracon supports projects like Brownfields redevelopment – taking potentially contaminated land and making it safe and useful for new projects. We are providing the construction quality assurance testing and inspections for Salt Lake’s newly upgraded international airport. We also provide geotechnical engineering for highways, data centers, solar and wind farms, and we offer a GIS-based assessment software that aids site selection and enhances real estate due diligence. If you like

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Civility and solutions are the pillars that guide the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation, named in honor of the late U.S. Senator who served Utah for more than 40 years. Here’s Executive Director Matt Sandgren to share more. MATT SANDGREN: The Orrin G. Hatch Foundation has made great strides this year. We have hosted multiple Senators, foreign policy experts, and even a Supreme Court Justice in discussions about the challenges facing our country and proposals to help us overcome them. In addition, our Foundation’s thinkers have been published in The Wall Street Journal, on the RealClearPolitics website, and more, and just recently we launched the Senate Project—a nationally televised debate series that convenes leading politicians from both to find areas of common ground. In the coming months, we will bring the Senate Project to Utah with a debate between two U.S. Senate heavyweights. And later this year, we’ll be publishing our annual Hatch Center Policy Review to m

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Revere Health has been caring for patients since 1960 and is the largest physician-owned specialty healthcare clinic network in Utah. Scott Bingham, the President of Revere Health, is a practicing cardiologist and has more. Scott Bingham: Revere Health’s mission statement and promise to our patients is “Your Health Above All Else.” We strive to provide the highest-quality, lowest-cost care to residents in more than 100 urban and rural locations throughout Utah. We are owned and led by our physicians, which means they have the autonomy to act in the best interest of patients. As an example, my dual role as President and practicing cardiologist allows me to better understand experiences and pain points from both sides of the aisle and guide our organization accordingly. Revere Health works closely with hospitals and other outside healthcare organizations to provide a seamless, coordinated care experience. We are also national leaders in value-based care, a sy

This is Derek Miller, Speaking on Business. The Sutherland Institute is a nonpartisan policy and educational institution – a think tank – that provides policy information to the public and elected officials. Here is Rick Larsen, President and CEO of Sutherland Institute, with more. RICK LARSEN: American democracy and free enterprise make it possible for freedom, and people, to flourish. At the Sutherland Institute, we defend these principles and help Utahns understand the important issues that impact families, education, and our civil liberties. When voters head to the polls and when elected officials make decisions, they need accurate, principled information that reduces partisan division. Most people want reasonable solutions achieved through discussion, persuasion, and common ground – and that’s what we provide. Sutherland Institute offers this principled and pragmatic approach to strengthen America’s core institutions through research, events, and public education. We take the politics out of policy

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Doug Cherry was a career Army officer who eventually rose to the rank of Brigadier General. Today he is the CEO of Monterey Technologies Inc, which is called MTI for short. Here’s Doug with more about MTI. DOUG CHERRY: Ever wonder why some products are easy to use and some building simple to navigate while others are a nightmare? Do you want your pilot to have to memorize a litany of emergency procedures, or do you hope she has an intuitive system to use. MTI is a User Centered Engineering firm headquartered in Park City. We specialize in Human Machine Interaction, and Command & Control Systems primarily in the Defense and Aerospace sectors. Our teams of Human Factors Engineers, User Experience Researchers and Designers, in conjunction with our systems engineers and software developers, create solutions that reduce cognitive load and put you – the user – at the center of everything we do. I spent 37-years in the Army before joining MTI and was often the victi

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. The Decada Group acquires companies from business owners wanting to retire, but whose leadership team wants to remain and operate for the long-term. CEO Chase Murdock formed Decada two years ago and has more. CHASE MURDOCK: Our focus at Decada Group is to own and operate a collection of small businesses that provide positive impacts in our communities. When we buy a business, we work hard to honor the founder and the company’s legacy, picking up where they left off to take the business into its next chapter. Over 10,000 baby boomers retire every day and of those nearly twenty percent are small business owners whose retirement is predicated on their ability to transition their legacy into competent hands. Decada Group helps provide that transition, supplying a regimented approach to team building, solid strategy, and working capital so that these businesses can thrive and fulfill the visions on which they were founded. As a holding company, we’re entirely

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Nearly 20 years ago, a small group of dedicated parents formed the American Preparatory Academy which today serves over 5,000 students on six Utah campuses. Executive Director Carolyn Sharette tells us more. CAROLYN SHARETTE: At American Prep, our passion is to “do what’s best for kids” so when making decisions we ask ourselves first, what would be best for our students? Our unique model includes powerful character, civic, and patriotic education. And Utah families have responded – we have waitlists at every campus, every year. Our duty is to uphold the taxpayer trust by teaching students to appreciate the amazing gift of education. We encourage students to repay this trust through diligence, hard work and achievement – to be prepared to change the world for the better. American Prep has earned a number one ranking for college readiness from US News and World Report, and we’ve won 23 Best of State awards. These accolades are appreciated, but the best reward is ea