Jonathan H. (Jon) Westover, PhD, MBAe, MPA, AF-CIPD, SFHEA
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Jonathan H. (Jon) Westover, PhD, MBAe, MPA, AF-CIPD, SFHEA is from Orem, Utah, United States. Jonathan is currently Core Program Faculty, Integrated Studies at Utah Valley University. Jonathan also works as undefined at undefined. Another title Jonathan currently holds is undefined at undefined. In Jonathan's previous role as a Chair, Organizational Leadership Department at Utah Valley University, Jonathan worked in Orem, Utah, United States until Jul 2025. Prior to joining Utah Valley University, Jonathan was a Academic Director, Center for Social Impact and SIMLab at Utah Valley University and held the position of Academic Director, Center for Social Impact and SIMLab. Prior to that, Jonathan was a Faculty Director, Academic Service-Learning, Innovation Academy at Utah Valley University, based in Orem, UT from Jul 2011 to Jul 2025. Jonathan started working as Executive Education Faculty, HR Certificate and Social Impact Certificate at Utah Valley University in Jan 2020. From Oct 2019 to Jun 2023, Jonathan was Faculty Fellow for Ethics in Public Life, Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University. Prior to that, Jonathan was a Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Change, Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University, based in Orem, Utah from Jul 2015 to Jun 2021. Jonathan started working as Center for the Study of Ethics Faculty Fellow at Utah Valley University in Orem in Jul 2017.
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Employers have told education coalitions, in those exact words, that they "don't trust" credentials — graduates arrive and no one knows what they can actually do. FSU's answer is to replace the credential with behavioral evidence: watch someone work, under pressure, in a realistic role, and score what they do. FSU is an immersive 3D simulation platform — think a realistic workplace scenario you navigate as a character — but the real product is the measurement system underneath it. The sim is the vehicle for generating behavior; the assessment engine is what makes that behavior meaningful. The one-sentence pitch: "a measurement system that happens to run as an immersive sim." A person isn't a single number (not a GPA, not a test score). FSU measures five dimensions from what you do inside the sim: S — Skills: the 6 durable skills (problem solving, learning agility, grit, creative thinking, collaboration, professional judgment), each broken into 5 behavioral sub-metrics, scored from every conversation and decision you make K — Knowledge: domain mastery — did you get the technical answer right? Tracked over time so you can see a learning curve, not just a snapshot I — Identity: who you're becoming professionally across multiple sims V — Values: how you choose when it's genuinely hard E — Epistemology: how you reason under uncertainty — do you question assumptions, revise beliefs, commit when you don't have perfect information? FSU is the first platform that can honestly say "here's what we measure, here's the evidence behind those measures, here's the audit trail, and here's how it deepens over time" — content-valid, auditable, longitudinal, and externally grounded.
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