Craig Brimhal

Craig Brimhall is a business instructional designer, design thinking consultant, former semi-professional baseball player, and current doctoral student at the University of Utah where he is focusing on organizational transformation. His work and research interests focuses on “change,” specifically in helping individuals, organizations, and systems overcome the inertia of tradition, culture, habits, and structure to change. He previously served as an Instructional Consultant at Knōd, an instructional design firm focusing on developing 21st century learning experiences with educators, employers, and students; an Adjunct Professor at Dixie State University, where he designed and taught courses for “at-risk” college freshmen that help the students create the lives they want; a Communication Specialist and Education Fellow at openbox, a design and innovation consulting firm; as well as a Senior Research Assistant at the Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. He completed his undergraduate degree at Utah Valley University, where he played Division 1 Baseball, and earned his Master’s Degree on the Mind, Brain, and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.