Russell W. Wright

Russell W. Wright founded and is currently the CEO of the management training and consulting company Knowledge Alternatives, Inc. Russell has over 20 years of management training and consulting experience. He has conducted management training for multiple organizations including the State of Utah, the State of Illinois, Motorola, Accenture, Shell Oil Company, Exxon, Chevron and Schlumberger. He is also currently an adjunct professor in the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah where he teaches MBA and undergraduate level courses in General Management, Small Business Management, and Entrepreneurship.

Before launching Knowledge Alternatives, Russell spent 12 years in academia teaching, conducting research and consulting in areas such as Knowledge Management, Organization Effectiveness and Design, Business Strategy, and Entrepreneurship.

Russell has taught in the graduate business programs of the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Group ESSEC in France, the University of Southern California and Pepperdine University.

Russell holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, a Masters of Organization Behavior (MOB) from Brigham Young University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Brigham Young University.