Henry J. Eyring

Eyring was born in Palo Alto, California, a son of Henry B. Eyring and Kathleen (née Johnson). Eyring's family lived in the San Francisco Bay Area while his father taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business until 1971, after which they moved to Rexburg, Idaho, where his father was appointed president of Ricks College (now BYU–Idaho). From 1982 to 1984, Eyring served as a full-time missionary for the LDS Church in the Japan Nagoya Mission. Eyring is a graduate of BYU, where he received a bachelor's degree in geology, an MBA, and a JD. ==Career==

Business From 1989 to 1998, Eyring worked at a Cambridge, Massachusetts management-consulting firm, Monitor Group, which was founded in 1983 by six entrepreneurs with Harvard Business School (HBS) ties. He has also served as a director of SkyWest Airlines since 1995. Eyring began working at BYU–Idaho in 2006. He initially served as an associate academic vice president, with responsibility for online learning and instructional technology. From 2008 to 2015, he served as BYU–Idaho's advancement vice president and then as academic vice president from 2015 to 2017. He was inaugurated as president on September 19, 2017. Eyring completed his service as BYU-Idaho's president on August 1, 2023. In 2011, while serving as BYU–Idaho's advancement vice president, Eyring co-authored The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education with HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, discussing the future of higher education and making college economically viable while conducting an in depth look at the histories of Harvard University and BYU-Idaho. Eyring has also served as a trustee of Southern Utah University and is an adjunct fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. ==Personal life==

Eyring and his wife, Kelly, have five children and reside in Rexburg, Idaho. Eyring is a grandson of American theoretical chemist Henry Eyring and wrote a biography of his grandfather entitled Mormon Scientist: The Life and Faith of Henry Eyring. He also co-wrote a biography about his father, Henry B. Eyring, an educational administrator and LDS Church leader, entitled I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring. Eyring's great-great-grandmother was a member of the Romney family. and area seventy. ==Bibliography ==