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Alumni Achievement Lectures

Each year during homeoming, the colleges at Brigham Young University honor an alum with significant professional, civic, or life accomplishments with an Alumni Achievement Award​. Honorees give a lecture on their life lessons that is targeted to students but is open to the public. The following are lectures are from Alumni Achievement Award recipients from the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences.

2025

Jeff Flake: No Man is an Island

2024

David Holland: Of History, Human Nature, and Hope

2023

Michelle Kaufusi: A Career and Life Superpower: Teambuilding

2022

Brent S. Crane: Social Connection: The Missing Link

2021

Leslie Edwards: What’s my Mission Now, Mom?: Reflections on a Mission Statement

2019

Clayton Brough: 5 Things I've Learned in 50 Years

2018

Jack Zenger: Can we mass-produce exceptional leaders?

2017

Larry Eastland: My Decade of Decision Began at BYU

2016

Brigitte Madrian on Household Financial Decision-Making: the Mistakes People Make and How to Fix Them

2015

David Foster

2014

Julie Beck

2012

Steve Olsen

2011

Don Staheli