Today we’d like to introduce you to Skip Weeks.
Skip, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
From an early age, I’ve been fascinated by the intersection of people, technology, and storytelling. I began my professional journey studying Political Science at Brigham Young University, but my career quickly evolved into entrepreneurship, technology development, and business leadership. Over the past several decades, I’ve had the opportunity to build, lead, and transform companies across multiple industries including software development, banking, venture capital, marketing, education, and consulting.
One of my earliest entrepreneurial successes was founding Action Plus Software, where I developed contact management and productivity tools at a time when personal computing was still emerging. That experience launched a lifelong passion for creating technology that helps individuals and organizations become more effective. I later served as Vice President of Technology for Franklin-Quest (now FranklinCovey), where I managed large development teams and helped build productivity solutions used worldwide.
Throughout my career, I have founded or led numerous technology and consulting companies. As CEO of companies such as InfoCentre, Noomail (later Jooce), KW Nexus, R2 Financials, and MoneyPark.com, I helped raise millions of dollars in equity funding while developing cloud-based CRM systems, e-commerce platforms, and enterprise software solutions. My work has spanned industries from solar energy and education technology to semiconductor research and venture capital. I’ve also served in executive banking leadership as Vice President and Branch Manager at JPMorgan Chase, where our team achieved record-setting investment and lending growth compared to peer institutions nationwide.
In addition to business leadership, I’ve always had a deep passion for teaching, writing, and mentoring. I am the author of seven books focused on business growth, personal development, and life principles. Writing has allowed me to share lessons learned from decades of entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal experience.
Most recently, I developed LifeHistoryApp.com, a platform designed to help individuals and families preserve their life stories through photos, timelines, videos, and written memories. The platform helps users curate their autobiographies and family histories in a way that is both simple and deeply meaningful. This project reflects something that has become increasingly important to me: helping people preserve their legacy, strengthen family connections, and capture personal stories before they are lost to time.
Looking back, my career has been less about following a single path and more about following a consistent purpose — building tools, businesses, and ideas that help people grow, succeed, and preserve what matters most. Today, I remain actively involved in technology development, writing, mentoring, and creative storytelling, always looking for new ways to combine innovation with meaningful human impact.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It certainly has not been a completely smooth road. Like most meaningful journeys, mine has included both remarkable successes and deeply difficult personal trials.
Professionally, entrepreneurship and business leadership always come with risk and uncertainty. I’ve launched companies that succeeded and others that struggled or required reinvention. Raising capital, navigating emerging technologies, and leading teams through economic shifts taught me resilience and adaptability. I learned early that progress rarely follows a straight line. Instead, it usually comes through persistence, learning from mistakes, and staying focused on long-term vision rather than short-term setbacks.
However, the greatest struggles in my life have not been professional — they have been personal. My wife and I have experienced the heartbreaking loss of two of our children. Our oldest daughter passed away from cancer in 2017, and we lost our oldest son just last November. Losing a child is something no parent ever imagines facing, and those experiences changed me profoundly.
While those losses brought immense grief, they also deepened my perspective on what truly matters. They strengthened my appreciation for family, relationships, faith, and the importance of preserving memories and life stories. In many ways, those experiences helped shape my passion for projects like LifeHistoryApp.com, which is designed to help families capture and preserve their stories, values, and experiences for future generations.
Life has taught me that success is not measured simply by professional achievements, but by the relationships we build, the lives we touch, and the legacy we leave behind. The challenges and losses I’ve experienced have made me more compassionate, more purposeful, and more committed to helping others preserve what matters most in their own lives.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
Creatively, my professional life is deeply rooted in visual storytelling. But I also love photography and aerial drone cinematography. While my business career has spanned technology, finance, and entrepreneurship, photography has become one of my greatest passions and creative outlets. I specialize in capturing dramatic natural landscapes, particularly during sunrise and sunset, when light, color, and atmosphere combine to create emotional and timeless imagery.
Landscape Photography
I love traveling throughout the world to photograph extraordinary natural locations. My work has taken me across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan, where I seek out scenes that convey beauty, serenity, and awe. Many of my favorite images come from remote mountain ranges, coastal environments, alpine lakes, and desert landscapes. I am particularly drawn to locations where changing light dramatically transforms the scene, allowing me to capture moments that feel both powerful and peaceful.
My photography can be viewed on my website, SkipWeeks.com, where I share many of my landscape collections. Through this work, I strive to help viewers feel emotionally transported into the scene, almost as if they are standing there themselves.
Drone Cinematography
In recent years, I have expanded my creative work into professional drone videography, which allows me to capture perspectives that are impossible to achieve from the ground. Aerial storytelling adds motion, scale, and emotional depth to landscapes. Drone footage allows viewers to experience terrain in a dynamic way — soaring over mountains, gliding along cliffs, or revealing hidden valleys and geological formations.
I frequently produce cinematic aerial sequences designed not just to document scenery, but to tell visual stories that inspire reflection and appreciation for the natural world. Many of these can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/@SkipWeeks/videos
What Sets My Work Apart
What makes my creative work unique is the combination of technology, storytelling, and emotional connection. My background in software development, visual design, and entrepreneurship gives me a technical understanding of composition, lighting, editing, and presentation. At the same time, my personal life experiences have given me a deep appreciation for preserving meaningful moments and creating content that resonates emotionally with viewers.
I am most proud of the way my photography and videography allow me to inspire others to see beauty in the world around them and to value experiences, memories, and relationships. For me, creative work is not just about producing images or videos — it is about capturing moments that remind people how extraordinary life and nature truly are.
Travel continues to play a central role in my creative process. Whether exploring the mountains of Europe, the coastlines of Japan, or the vast and varied landscapes of North America, each journey provides new opportunities to capture stories through light, motion, and perspective.
We’d love to hear about any fond memories you have from when you were growing up?
One of my favorite childhood memories is simply the freedom and adventure I experienced growing up exploring the outdoors around Orem, Provo, and Provo Canyon, Utah. As a young boy and teenager, I spent countless hours hiking, climbing, fishing, and discovering new trails and hidden places throughout the mountains and canyons. Those experiences gave me a deep love for nature that has stayed with me my entire life.
During my teenage years, I also had the unique opportunity to teach skiing at Sundance before it became the well-known Sundance resort it is today. That experience was incredibly formative for me. It taught me responsibility at a young age, gave me confidence in working with others, and strengthened my love for mountain environments and outdoor recreation.
Scouting also played a very important role in my childhood. I loved camping trips, outdoor adventures, and the challenge of earning merit badges. Working toward and ultimately earning my Eagle Scout award was a milestone that helped shape my character and taught me discipline, leadership, service, and perseverance. Many of the values I learned through scouting—self-reliance, teamwork, and a respect for nature—have influenced both my personal life and professional career.
Looking back, those early outdoor adventures helped shape my lifelong passion for exploration, travel, photography, and storytelling. Even today, I still feel that same sense of excitement and peace whenever I find myself in the mountains, on a trail, or capturing the beauty of nature through my camera.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://skipweeks.com/ | https://lifehistoryapp.com/ | http://infocentre.biz/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skipweeks/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SkipperWeeks/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skip-weeks-00a13a373/
- Twitter: https://x.com/skip_weeks
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SkipWeeks/videos and https://www.youtube.com/@ProsperAndCreateRealWealth
