Directors

Steffani King is a single mother of two beautiful children whom keep her on her toes! She has been a consultant for pageants for four years teaching young women how to prepare for pageants and helping them put forth their best self. Steffani has taught etiquette for the Continuing Education Program through Utah Valley University. She is currently a full time student earning her Bachelors decree in Elementary Education. 

 

 

Caitlin Schmidt was raised in Preston, Idaho. She participated in Junior Miss, Miss Franklin County, and Miss Idaho. She graduated with a Bachelor's in Business Management from BYU-Idaho. While there she played lead trumpet in the Jazz Lab Band. She also has many years experience dancing and playing the piano. Currently she is a stay at home mom to three kids.

 



Gwen Peterson is the Founder, President & Chairperson of Hope for Widows Foundation.

Born and raised in Southern California, Gwen enjoys a fast paced and people filled environment. While finishing up her undergraduate degree from the University of Utah, Gwen found the arena where her skills were best matched with her passion, which was in management at Gap Inc. Within 2.5 years, she took a small Gap store with 35 employees grossing $1.4 million in sales to 75+ employees grossing $2.8 million in sales. Her store became the #1 store in the western region of the US which afforded her many regional opportunities.

She was recruited from the retail sales world to headhunting in Corporate America working with franchised companies such as Ben and Jerry’s, BP Oil, and Huddle House Restaurants. Gwen created strong relationships with Presidents, CEO’s and Directors as she worked hand and hand to connect the right candidate to the right company. Gwen was rookie of the year her first year with FranSearch, became the second top billing recruiter in the company her second year by billing $312,700, and became the top woman headhunter in America in the franchise industry.
In 2004 Gwen left the high powered corporate world to work closer with her husband in the real estate and construction world. They have fix and flipped many properties, dabbled in hard money lending, and currently own a cabinet and countertop company. In a trying economy, Gwen and her husband were able to start a company without any outside funding and grown it to produce over $2 million in sales and 23 employees. She currently resides in Kaysville with her husband and three children.

Director of Little Miss and Choreography
 Natalie Murray is no stranger to pageantry. Like most little girls she grew up watching the Miss America Pageant on TV and remembers wanting to be Miss America one day. When she was old enough she entered into her first local pageant and competed 3 times before placing 2nd attendant. She put pageantry aside for a while and started a family. After having her second child she decided it was time to start competing again and trained for a fitness competition. She placed first at Ms. Fitness Utah and qualified to competed at the Ms. Fitness USA finals in Las Vegas. She then went on to compete for Mrs. Utah United States in 2007, 2008, and 2009 where she placed in the top ten all three years and top five in 2007 and 2008. 

Dance has been a big part of Natalie's life. In fact, she began taking ballet at 4 years old and trained for 12 years with Clytie Adams School of Ballet in Kaysville. She danced with her high school drill team, and went on to be an assistant coach with that team for three years. She has taught and choreographed for almost 20 years and still loves it. Natalie loves the self improvement that pageants provide. She wouldn't be who she is today if it wasn't for the opportunities that competing in pageants has provided. They have given her life skills that she continues to learn each time she competes. She says that for her, it's not about winning the crown, even though that would be the icing on the cake, it's about the growth that happens from the inside that counts. In fact a poem that she recieved from her first pageant director explains exactly how she feels about pageants. Natalie is married with 5 children and lives in Layton. 

                                                     Fitness and Swimsuit Director 


Jason Latas, of SummeBodyNow.com, is a performance-based life and health coach - a life coach that helps people reach their personal, fitness and health goals faster than they could on their own.

Jason has been in the fitness industry for over 20 years and was featured in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, Spa Magazine, Modern Bride, Conde Naste, as well as on ESPN, The Travel Channel, Ford Adventure Outfitters, Planet X TV and many other national and international venues.

He has worked with Fortune 500 CEOs, doctors, lawyers, extreme athletes, entrepreneurs, models and every day people that just want to take charge of their lives instead of feeling as though life is controlling them.

“Whether you want to release some weight and regain your health or just clear some blocks that are holding you back from your desired future, together we can do it! I would love to work with you, one on one, to help accomplish your life goals!”