Richard I. Winwood
Richard Ivan Winwood | |
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Born | January 18, 1943 |
Alma mater | Portland State University, Southern Virginia University[1] |
Occupation | Owner of Million Air LLC, Director at BioMeridian Inc |
Known for | Developer of the Franklin Day Planner |
Spouse(s) | Judith Anette Winwood (Rigas) |
Parent(s) | Robert Ivan and Edna Enz Winwood |
Richard Ivan Winwood (born January 18, 1943) is an author, religious leader, and business executive with Franklin-Covey.
Biographical background[]
Winwood was born in Portland, Oregon to Robert Ivan Winwood and Edna Pauline Enz. He attended Portland State University and Seattle City University.[2]
Winwood was raised as a Protestant, though skeptical of organized religions. He was given a copy of the Book of Mormon when he was around twenty-five and a married father of two. This led to his conversion and 1971 baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Portland, Oregon. Shortly afterward, his new faith was shaken by the anti-Mormon book Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?. This led to his investigation of anti-Mormonism and involvement in Mormon apologetics. In the 1990s he published a book and video defending the LDS Church against critics.[3]
Winwood is married to Judith Annette Rigas and they have four children.[2] They currently reside in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
Business[]
Winwood was a founding[4] executive and Chief Operating Officer of Franklin-Covey (formerly Franklin Quest and Franklin International Institute), which has published some of his books.[5] He was the principal designer of the first Franklin Day-Planner, which earned him tens of millions of dollars.[6] He is author of the original Franklin Time Management Seminar.[7]
Winwood has been chairman of (formerly ), a non-invasive medical screening device manufacturing company in Draper, Utah,[8]
Winwood turned to the aviation industry in 1994.[9]
He was Chairman of Keystone Aviation LC (dba Million Air Salt Lake City/Provo), an aircraft services company.
He also founded WinAir Airlines in 1997,[6] and in 2001, and is the current owner of .
Religious service[]
For the LDS Church, Winwood has served as Mission President of the Canada Halifax Mission from 1991–94,[2] Visitor Center Director and Mission President of the Salt Lake Temple Square Mission from 1999–2001, and President of the England Missionary Training Centre in Preston from 2005–07.
Published work[]
Winwood has authored books on business and personal management, including Time Management: An Introduction to the Franklin System,[10] Creating Quality Meetings: Latest Techniques for Mastering Group Communication,[11] and Time Effective Meetings. He also authored Take Heed That Ye Be Not Deceived, a work in defense of Mormonism.[12]
In Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler, Thomas Frank satirises Time Management as a book that fuses the "self-help, business and inspirational genres," to acclaim time management and self-esteem as the path to "personal fulfillment and skyrocketing profits," pursuing, in Frank's opinion, an ideal of "exquisite mediocrity."[13]
References[]
- ^ LinkedIn.com profile for Richard I. Winwood
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "New mission presidents". Church News. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News. February 16, 1991. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ Winwood, Richard I. (1995). "Introduction". Take Heed That Ye Be Not Deceived. Salt Lake City, Utah: R.I. Winwood. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ Moore, Carrie A. (April 3, 2004). "Utah businessman now back in the fold". Church News. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ "FRANKLIN QUEST PLANNING FIRM PENCILS IN PLAN TO GO PUBLIC". Salt Lake Tribune. 21 April 1992. ProQuest 288513358.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Boulton, Guy (1 July 1999). "Winwood Sees High-Flying Venture End". Salt Lake Tribune. ProQuest 288936386.
- ^ "Board of Directors". . Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ secinfo.com
- ^ Reynolds, Christopher (1 November 1998). "Travel Insider (WinAir profile)". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 421314539.
- ^ Richard Winwood (1990). Time Management: Introduction to Franklin Systems. Salt Lake City, Utah: Franklin Institute. ISBN 0-939817-07-1.
- ^ Richard Winwood (1991). Creating quality meetings: Latest techniques for mastering group communication. Salt Lake City, Utah: Franklin International Institute. ISBN 0-939817-08-X.
- ^ Winwood, Richard I. (1995). Take Heed That Ye Be Not Deceived. Salt Lake City, Utah: R.I. Winwood. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ Frank, Thomas (2011). Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 113. ISBN 9780393342802. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
Sources[]
- Author intro, Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University.
- Mission president profile from the Canada Halifax Mission
- 1943 births
- Latter Day Saints from Oregon
- Converts to Mormonism
- Living people
- Mission presidents (LDS Church)
- American Mormon missionaries in Canada
- American Mormon missionaries in England
- Writers from Portland, Oregon
- Writers from Salt Lake City
- Portland State University alumni
- American Mormon missionaries in the United States
- 20th-century Mormon missionaries
- 21st-century Mormon missionaries
- Mormon apologists
- City University of Seattle alumni
- Businesspeople from Salt Lake City
- American chief operating officers
- Latter Day Saints from Washington (state)
- Latter Day Saints from Utah