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Alumni Experiences Center News 2021 2017
Do you want to work in a consulting firm but don't know how or where to start? The Ballard Center can help!
BYU Marriott accounting alumni Kathrine Jensen and Jared Nielsen recently received one of the most prestigious recognitions in accounting: the Elijah Watt Sells Award.
Sally Wallace, dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, recently received this year's Gary C. Cornia Lecture Series Award presented by the BYU Marriott MPA program.
As a part of this year's Homecoming, BYU presented an Alumni Achievement Award to BYU Marriott MBA graduate Brandon Robinson.
From the mountains to the sea to the Tanner building, BYU Marriott MPA alumna Lina Abdallah is always searching for new ways to see the world and the people who live in it.
Jeffery Thompson has been named the first-ever director of the Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership at Brigham Young University.
As a successful entrepreneur and a mentor for the Rollins Center, Bryan Welton enjoys helping students improve their companies.

Honoree Brett Swigert shared the importance of service before self in his acceptance speech.
How do I find purpose? How do we cure cancer? How can I best learn from my mistakes? These were just a few of the hard questions addressed at TEDxBYU 2017.
Alumni LaDon Linde and Justin Oldroyd have always enjoyed a fast-paced work environment. Prior to their current positions, they both spent time at global strategy consulting firms, and Linde played a key role in a San Francisco-based tech company’s growth from twenty to two-hundred employees. Though their jobs were good, both men felt the need for something more—to use their knowledge and abilities for a work close to their hearts.
As a homeless college student, Sam Cobbs was humiliated while he stood in line to get food stamps. Welfare services said he would need to drop out of college if he wanted their aid, but he knew that college was his only chance at escaping poverty.
BYU professor Linda Reynolds sees the skills she teaches as more than a mixture of aesthetics, images, symbols, and words her design classes teach students to do good better.
The Romney Institute recently recognized David Williams for his outstanding work in the nonprofit sector.
“Making a difference.” “Making the world a better place.” Use these phrases enough and they start sounding stale. But backed by real results, the work of MPA alumni is proving the skills developed within the walls of the Marriott School can make meaningful—and real—change.
The Global Management Center hosted teens from around the state to help students combine their knowledge of language and global business.
Within a two-year span, five information systems classmates left BYU to start their careers—only to find themselves working side-by-side once again.