Kari Cutler
Kari Cutler, C.E.O. of Social Marketing Consultants, works primarily with nonprofit organizations and municipalities to develop and manage projects, grants and contracts, sustainability and evaluation plans, policies and procedures, and budgets. Since 1999, she has raised over eleven million dollars in cash, and leveraged over fifteen million dollars of in-kind donations for the organizations with whom she works.
Kari assists organizations with nonprofit board development, issues regarding sustainability and grant writing, and the formation of strategies to address risk and build protective factors. Working to strengthen communities, Kari also provides training to on finding alternatives to violence, improving communication and conflict resolution, and rallying community resources to support improved educational and positive life outcomes for young people.
Jack Wilbur
Jack Wilbur, founder and co-owner of SMC, is a social marketing and marketing research specialist with 20 years of experience in researching and developing outreach and social marketing behavior change programs in the areas of the environment, food and nutrition, substance abuse and public education. Jack specializes in assisting local agencies and nonprofit organizations to plan, research, implement, and evaluate social marketing programs in the their local areas. Jack's philosophy is to teach and empower local groups to engage in behavior change strategies themselves, rather than relying on outside partiies to come in and do it for them.
At the same time, however, Jack and the rest of the SMC staff provide full service social marketing consulting services to groups and projects that don't have the necessary staff or skills to implement social marketing campaigns on their own.
Between working with groups to build their own capacities, and researching and implementing campaigns for others, Jack has participated in numerouse successful behavior change campaigns from coast to coast in the United States and in Western Canada.
Jan L. Tyler
Jan Tyler is an educational consultant for professional development, educational program assessment, and educational program evaluation, currently working with several agencies, organizations, and companies.
In 2005, Jan retired from the State of Utah following an illustrious career that included 13 years as an education specialist for the Utah State Office of Education and serving as the first Human Resource Director for the Utah Department of Social Services, the first of that position for any State of Utah agency.
Jan’s educational background includes a Master’s degree in Education from Arizona State University and a Doctorate in Education Administration from the University of Utah.