John Priddy

CEO & Co-founder, Windrider Institute

Entrepreneur and Peabody award-winning film producer John Priddy is the CEO & Co-founder of the Windrider Institute. A 501c(3) non-profit established in 2004, Windrider is founded on the belief that visual media, our culture’s principal form of storytelling, uniquely opens doors for empathy and connection through conversation.

Windrider is comprised of three primary initiatives: The Windrider Summit, an annual week-long event in partnership with the Sundance Film Festival, Windrider Productions, an award-winning production crew specializing in impact storytelling, and Windrider Studios, a state-of-the-art distribution platform hosting films and conversation content that thoughtfully illuminate relevant topics year-round.

John lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife Terri, and the couple has four grown children. He has a Master of Arts in Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary where he was awarded the Brehm Center Distinguished Alumni Award and has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado.