2025 Women In Business Thrive Series

2024 Women In Business Scholarship Awards Luncheon & Jewelry Sales
Keynote “Igniting Your Leadership Journey: A Foundation for Success”
Nubia Pena, Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs
May 14, 2025

Event Description

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The 2025 Women in Business Thrive Series is a transformative 12-month program, powered by the Cache Valley Chamber, designed to expand and accelerate women's potential. Through high-impact presentations from Utah's top women leaders, focused networking opportunities, and catered lunches, participants will gain the skills and confidence to achieve their goals. Join us as we empower women to lead, innovate, and inspire.

Please join professional women at the 2024 Women In Business Annual Scholarship Awards Luncheon where we will award local women students educational scholarships to Utah State University and Bridgerland Technology College.

Enjoy a jewelry sale supporting women’s scholarships and lunch provided by Off Premise Catering and keynote address from special guest speaker Nubia Pena, Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs who will share “Igniting Your Leadership Journey: A Foundation for Success”.

Keynote Address:

Are you ready to break free from the constraints of your current role? This keynote address will ignite your leadership aspirations, equip you with essential tools, and encouragement to move into a leadership role.

Learn how to prepare for leadership roles by setting clear goals, building credibility, and navigating organizational culture. Through this keynote address, women will be inspired to pursue leadership opportunities, and advance their professional growth with confidence by envisioning themselves as a leader, developing leadership skills, building confidence and believing in their ability to lead and make a difference.

Don't miss this opportunity to start your leadership journey and make a lasting impact.

Challenge: Set a aspirational leadership goal, identify and apply for a leadership position

Resources:
 

Implementable Takeaways:

• Aspirations for leadership with clear goals with practical ways to build credibility and navigate organizational culture.

• List of potential leadership positions to seek

• Identified leadership opportunity to seize

Sponsors

Cache Valley Chamber

Workshop Agenda:

11:30am Lunch & Networking

11:50am Welcome

12pm Presentation

12:50pm Raffle Drawings & Wrap Up

1pm End

Raffle Prizes

TBD

Raffle prizes for each luncheon are generously donated by local organizations and individuals and all attendees receive a complimentary raffle ticket. Buy additional raffle tickets for your chance to take home a prize. 100% of ticket sales fund scholarships for local women.

About the presenter

Nubia Peña, Governor’s Senior Advisor & Director of Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs
 

Nubia Peña is Governor Cox’s Senior Advisor and director for the Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs whose mission is to promote an inclusive climate for Utah’s growing diverse community through training, outreach and youth leadership development. Peña spent the past 15 years working as a community organizer, advocate and ally for systematically marginalized populations. She also facilitates dialogues among local and national leaders on complex topics of inclusion and racial justice, working to create equitable access in services and resources for historically disenfranchised communities. Peña also designs and implements various workshops on creating culturally relevant, and gender-specific programming, specifically when working with youth and adolescents. 

Peña is a former member of the Utah Juvenile Defender Attorneys where she advocated for youth rights during detention and delinquency proceedings. She is certified by the National Juvenile Defender Center as a Juvenile Training Immersion Program facilitator. In addition, Peña is a national consultant dedicated to bringing awareness to intersections of trauma and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, an epidemic that targets our most vulnerable youth by streamlining them into the juvenile justice system. She also serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. 

Peña has actively sought to bring awareness to issues of violence and systemic oppression through her professional endeavors and personal faith-based initiatives. She has a decade of experience assisting survivors of domestic abuse, sexual assault, human trafficking and violent crimes as a law enforcement victim advocate. Since 2007, Peña has served as the training and prevention education specialist at the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault (UCASA), where she developed trainings on youth advocacy for trafficked survivors, social justice in prevention efforts, and sexual harassment in the #MeToo era. In addition, she is also the founder and director of Royalty Rising Youth Ministry, a culturally relevant and gender specific outreach initiative for systematically marginalized young adults. 

Peña received her J.D. from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in May 2016. During that year, she was selected as one of 25 law students in the nation to be recognized and highlighted for her social justice activism in the National Jurist, a leading news source in legal education. She was also selected as the recipient of the National Juvenile Justice Network 2019 Emerging Leader Award due to her longstanding commitment to youth rights, empowerment, and leadership development. Peña was named as one of Utah Business Magazine’s 2020 40 Under 40 award recipients and recognized among the 2020 Heroes for Utah Philanthropy Day. Additionally she received YWCA Utah’s  Outstanding Achievement Award in 2023, and Living Color Utah’s Living Color Honoree in 2024

Upcoming Workshops*:

June 11: Leadership Excellence: Drive Success and Inspire Teams with Purpose Driven Leadership, presented by Sharlene Wells, Mountain America Credit Union

July 9: Entrepreneurial Mindset: Discover Opportunities for Business and Career Growth, presented by Lavanya Mahate, Saffron Valley Restaurants and Rise Culinary Institute

August 13: Money Matters: Navigate Your Finances and Future with Confidence, presented by Trina Limpert, Tech-Moms

*Subject to change.

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