Scott C. Hammond is an associate professor of business management at Utah Valley State College and currently the assistant academic vice president in the Office of Academic Affairs. A nationally known consultant and speaker, Scott has recently published over 30 academic articles with current research in dialogue, management education, and faculty development. In the summer of 2006 Scott created two video case studies at Johnson & Johnson for McGraw Hill. He has facilitated over 50 strategic planning processes, with clients including the National Park Service, The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, The Visiting Nurses Association of America, Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto and others.

In 1980s he worked as a reporter/producer for two Salt Lake Television stations. Some reports aired on Nightline, and World News Tonight, and Good Morning America. He is currently host and producer of the Utah Business Boardroom (KUEN-PBS), a Telly Award winning program about Utah Business Entrepreneurs.

Recently Scott consulted for the Department of Electrical Engineering at BYU and the College of Professional Studies, University of San Francisco. Scott has been the lead consultant on best practices in adult learning to Johnson & Johnson Corporation eUniversity (J&J has an annual training budget of 250 million USD).He worked for four years as a development consultant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, creating training for scientists on career development and diversity. At UVSC he worked with colleagues to created a faculty development program for the School of business which has been the subject of three presentations at Western Academy of Management, The Academy of Management, with forthcoming publication in several academic journals. Recently Scott has published several articles in local newspapers on the value of education with links below:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,640198451,00.html

http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,645194012,00.html

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/189692/

Scott is married to Barbara Gross Hammond who is the assistant dean in the College of Humanities, Art and Social Sciences at UVSC. They are the parents of 5 children. Scott spends what little free time he has back country skiing, biking, and hiking.