Management Team
Brian Shepherd. President
Brian has been with Right Direction since it was formed nearly six years ago. His main function has always been as an Interventionist because it is as an Interventionist that he gets to work directly with clients. Brian was diagnosed with Crohn's disease when he was ten years old. Brian's condition made for a difficult adolescence as everyday activities such as school presented great challenges for him. As with many Crohn's sufferers, Brian had to overcome the tendency to live his life in fear of his disease. Instead he decided to take control of his life and navigate a different direction for himself. Dealing with these challenges helped to shape Brian's positive attitude toward life and his ability to deal with any challenge that comes his way. His personal experience helps him to empathize with adolescents and young adults facing their own challenges. In his time with Right Direction, he has personally worked with over eight hundred families. Brian started with Right Direction as a college student eager to pay for his education and went on to graduate from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Information Systems. After graduating from college, Brian initiated Right Direction's website and began to work on designing an online database to help Right Direction better serve families. Since then, Brian has naturally evolved into a leader for Right Direction and has helped to shape our therapeutic philosophy. Currently he spends most of his time juggling his office duties, counseling parents, doing interventions and spending time with his beautiful wife and baby daughter, Aelyn. Brian also loves to cook and travel and has worked in sponsor hospitality venues during the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, the 2000 Olympic Summer Games in Sydney, Australia and he managed sponsor hospitality suites for the IOC and Sports Illustrated during the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City as well as in Athens, Greece during the 2004 Olympics and most recently in Turin, Italy for the 2006 Olympics. Brian is CPR certified and has first-aid training and is a member of the California Trustline Registry (#151173386)
