Tim Stay serves as CEO and is a co-founder of The Other Side Academy, a two-year residential, peer-run, life-skills academy for helping those caught in long-term cycles of addiction, crime and homelessness learn to transform their lives – at no cost to themselves or others.
Tim Stay was formerly the CEO, as well as a co-founder of Unitus Labs. Tim Stay started and ran Marketing Ally, which became one of the Top 50 Call Centers in the U.S.A and had over 1,110 employees. He started and later sold FreeServers.com to About.com. He was a co-founder of Bizcradle, a business incubator that launched such technology companies as SenForce, which sold to Novell. Tim was former CEO of Perfect Search Corporation, an innovative search engine and software development company.
Tim was voted as one of the vSpring 100 technology entrepreneurs in Utah and was recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from BYU. He has served on the Utah Valley University Foundation Board and on the Advisory Board for the Center of Economic Self-Reliance and the National Advisory Council for Religious Education at BYU. He has been Community Council Chair at Lakeridge Jr. High and at Mountain View High School. He serves on the Utah State Board of Education Advisory Panel for Community Councils.
Tim holds a civil engineering degree and also has an M.B.A. and an M.A. in International Studies, with a focus on economic development in developing countries, all from Brigham Young University.
Joseph Grenny is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books on leadership, communication, and personal change. He is a cofounder and current board chair of Unitus—an organization that has helped over 50 million of the world’s poorest find a path to self reliance. He cofounded VitalSmarts, a global leader in corporate training and organizational performance improvement. Most recently he and his wife Celia Grenny cofounded The Other Side Academy in Salt Lake City, Utah—a no-cost, two-year residential life-skills training program for those who have hit rock bottom. Joseph and Celia are the parents of six children and grandparents of two. They live in Salt Lake City, Utah.
