Utah Community Builders and the Salt Lake Chamber will honor Joseph Grenny, Chairman of the Board for The Other Side Academy and The Other Side Village, as the 7th R. Lane Beattie Utah Community Builder!
The award recognizes an inspirational individual who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to address critical community needs.
Grenny will be honored during the Giant in our City event on April 24, 2025, at the Grand America Hotel where Lisa Eccles, president and COO of the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation will receive the 46th Giant in our City award.
2025 Utah Community Builder Award Celebration (part of the Giant in our City Celebration)
April 24, 2025
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Grand America Hotel
555 S. Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Joseph Grenny is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including leadership, influence and communication classics like Crucial Conversations, Crucial Influence, Crucial Accountability, and Change Anything. His work is used by over two thirds of Forbes Global 2000 companies and is taught by over 20,000 trainers across the world. He is a co-founder of Crucial Learning, one of the world’s most respected training and organization development firms.
He is a co-founder and current board chair of Unitus Labs, an international nonprofit that has helped over 50 million of the world’s poorest to move toward self-reliance. Unitus Labs was instrumental in launching some of the most successful impact investment and related firms in the world, including Unitus Seed Fund (and its successor, Capria), Unitus Equity Fund, Unitus Ventures (and its successor, Patamar), and Unitus Capital. Unitus Capital has provided capital arrangement services of over $4 billion to some of the world’s most successful socially-oriented ventures.
In 2015, he and his colleagues started The Other Side Academy, a 2.5-year school for those with long histories of crime, addiction and homelessness. Students at The Other Side Academy, or TOSA run some of the most admired businesses in Utah, including The Other Side Movers, The Other Side Thrift Boutiques and The Other Side Builders. Over their tenure at TOSA, students not only learn life changing vocational skills, but they also learn life skills like integrity, selflessness, communication and self-discipline.
In 2021, Joseph and leaders of The Other Side Academy co-founded The Other Side Village, a 430-home community for those who are chronically homeless based on principles of self-reliance and peer accountability.
“Aside from masterfully educating individuals on how to develop essential personal and professional skills, Joseph Grenny has gone to extraordinary lengths to lead with purpose and compassion. It’s because of individuals like Joseph, who seek to help others make a personal change, we can see someone’s full potential unlocked.”