Charlie Gray had been in two industries most of his early adult life: restaurants and music. He started working in restaurants in 1993 and has been behind a DJ booth since 1994. What those two decades taught him about having fun with a crowd, engaging a room, and developing the kind of speaking ability that most instructors spend years trying to fake. That did not go anywhere when he changed careers. It became his teaching style.

He came to EMS through wildland fire, wilderness medicine, the University of Utah, and Rice-Eccles Stadium. His academic background runs through doctoral-level veterinary study. He knows his medicine cold. He knows how to communicate it to anyone.

He is an "Edu-tainer." He has been called a favorite teacher more times than he can count.

He knows his medicine. He just makes it fun and impossible to forget.

Sage represents our lead instructor team – a group with decades of combined EMS experience, including backgrounds in maternal health, critical care, and patient assessment. That range shapes an approach built on calm, clear coaching under pressure.

Our team has spent twenty years combined in EMS. Within that team is national-level EMS evaluation experience, NAEMSE EMS Instructor certification at both Level I and II, a Prodigy EMS Instructor, and international award recognition through HOSA.

Within five minutes of meeting our instructors, students find themselves opening up in ways they did not expect. That is not an accident. It is the standard we hold ourselves to.

It is always about the student. Full stop.