University Team

Jody Colvard

Managing Partner and Founder

Jody is the Founder and Managing Partner of FMG University. She holds the same roles with FMG, the company that birthed the University. FMG is a matrix of businesses including the university, a publishing firm, a show host training studio, a podcasting directory, an online magazine, and a motivational TV/ radio network. The individual companies synergistically deliver practical and inspiring information via FMG’s global broadcast platform.

FMG’s general mission is to “Have Fun. Make Money. Do Good”. Jody ensures that FMG University fulfills its part of that mission by having every aspect of our courses empower writers, speakers, and experts to share their voices and messages with eager students and fans worldwide. Since 2004, the FMG Network has trained over 500 students in audio/ video, blogging, podcasting, social networking, email marketing, and affiliate business building. Through our online university format, these world-class, highly successful trainings – and many other topics – are available to the general public.

On a personal level, Jody’s passions are new media and holistic healing arts. She’s licensed in modalities such as massage, Reiki, Healing Touch, acupressure, and other energetic and physical healing methods. Jody is also a sculptor, muralist, and portraiture artist. Her deep love of humanity inspires her to support a variety of causes through her Blue Butterfly Project.

That same commitment to being at-cause in empowering the world is what drove her to build the inspirational and motivational educational vehicle of FMG University. Her guidance ensures consistent, useful, innovative, world-class caliber courses for all of our students. We’re delighted to have Jody at the helm of FMGU’s administrative team!

Declan Dunn

Managing Partner

Declan Dunn is recognized, worldwide, for his development of innovative social networks and new media. Since 1995, he’s been a pioneering insider in the fields of corporate performance enhancement and affiliate marketing. This unusual skill set allows him to bring people together in business settings, enhance their relationships, and then empower them to monetize those relationships. By simultaneously honouring both the needs of businesses, and the humans who work within them, Declan’s unique systems consistently return human joy to the process of increasing bottom-line profits.

On a personal level, Declan’s passions include being creative through his art, teaching, and writing. He’s an avid outdoors enthusiast. He has also authored multiple books; written and produced his own play; and is the developer of the breakthrough educational social network Remember.org, winner of the 2009 Social Change in Media Award.

Declan has combined his real-world systems expertise, Master’s Degree in Instructional Design – and his experience teaching these concepts at University of California Santa Barbara – in order to provide FMG University with innovative, effective guidance. With his robust expertise – and wide-ranging personal passions – allow him to bring art, mastery, and pragmatism to his roles with FMG University. We’re excited and delighted to have Declan on-board as part of our FMGU administrative team!

Julie C. Woods

Director of Education/ Communications Director

Julie is the embodiment of what it means to be a renegade Renaissance woman who’s committed to a life of Service. In a former incarnation, Julie C. Woods succeeded in widely disparate – and concurrent – careers. They ranged from street counselor for homeless addicts and veterans; to national-level singer/songwriter; to international award-winning Senior Technical Trainer/ Writer/ Editor. As a counselor and performer, Julie had – and continues to enjoy– deeply satisfying levels of success. For over a quarter of a century, in her technical career, she developed curricula and trained trainers for clients such as the Pentagon; generated procedures used, as excellence samples, by business entities such as the U.S. Department of Standards and several Fortune 500 companies; and assembled award-winning documentation and training teams.

Within FMG’s matrix of companies, Julie holds several executive positions while working closely as first-line support for FMG’s Founder, Jody Colvard. Primarily, she’s the Communications Director for all divisions of the FMG Network. She’s also the Executive Editor for FMG’s magazine, FUN MONEY GOOD.

In other parts of her life, Julie’s roles remain diverse and legion. She’s The Urban Bliss Shaman™, her role as an inspirational speaker and nascent author. In the world of philanthropy, Julie founded a multi-state, grassroots food abundance organization – Fans With Cans – which has fed over 80,000 American families since 1994. And she’s a world-class performer who has received enthusiastic kudos from Grammy-winning luminaries such as Roberta Flack, Michael Mangini, and Jimmy Page.

Julie considers her work, as the Director of Education for FMG University, to be some of the most rewarding work she’s ever done. We’re delighted to have Julie on-board as a member of our FMGU administrative team!

M. Rory McCracken

Creative Director

Rory is an avid student of the Universe. He has a demonstrated ability to observe and reflect on the world around him, then transmute those observations and reflections into expressions of his unusual creativity.

Rory’s official training spans web design; video production and editing; graphic design; photography; writing; game design; book design; and many other art forms. He combines these art forms to create organic, useful, enriching user experiences. Underneath every moment of his art is a drive to do whatever he can to make this world a better place. As our FMG Creative Director, Rory honours this drive by weaving beauty into his pragmatic, supportive web and educational collateral designs.

This drive also carries over into his personal pursuits. He’s inspired by the elegant diversity of our world, and so loves traveling to take in new experiences and cultures. As he does, he always seeks to learn new things to improve his life and the lives of those around him.

This soul-deep commitment to useful, nourishing creativity is palpable to anyone who encounters him or his work. It’s a pleasure and privilege to have Rory on our FMGU administrative team!