2025 Women In Business Thrive Series

Networking Essentials: Build and Enhance Your Professional Connections
Dr. Donna Milavetz, Chief Medical Director, Regence BlueCross BlueShield
September 10, 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.

Whether you’re new to networking or aiming to enhance your current connections, this practical workshop is designed to set you up for success. Effective connections and a robust network can open doors to new opportunities and support your career growth. This practical workshop is designed to help you leverage the power of your network to enhance your career accomplishments. Learn actionable tips and straightforward strategies for developing and strengthening professional relationships. Discover how to confidently introduce yourself, connect with the right people, and maintain meaningful connections. Prepare for future events, including the upcoming Business Women’s Conference, with easy-to-implement techniques that will help you expand your network and use it effectively for career and business growth.

Challenge: Set goals for getting the most out of attending the 300-person Business Women’s Conference (a personalized plan outlining key networking goals and the specific people you want to connect with at events.)

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Implementable Takeaways:

• Practical techniques for introducing yourself, making impactful connections, and enhancing your networking skills with actionable tips you can use right away.

• Elevator pitch that is concise and compelling which clearly communicates your professional background and goals.

• List of Business Women’s Conference attendees, business name and industries

• Specific goals for getting the most connections and value from attending the Business Women’s Conference (October 22, 2025)

Sponsor

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

Dr. Donna Milavetz, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Regence BlueCross BlueShield

As senior vice president and chief medical officer, Dr. Donna Milavetz is responsible for clinical strategy, program design, clinical policy and quality outcomes across the organization. She has extensive clinical and business leadership experience in value-based care, preventive medicine and quality improvement.

Prior to joining Regence, Dr. Milavetz served in vice president roles at Steward Health Care. Before that, she founded and led Onsite Care, Inc., which operates primary care clinics at employer workplaces to improve employees' access to health care. She served as its chief executive officer and chief medical officer for more than a decade.

As a volunteer physician, Dr. Milavetz is passionate about improving population health and women’s health. She is a distinguished community leader who currently sits on the board of directors for Jewish Family Service and the board of directors for the Salt Lake Chamber, after serving as its 2022-2023 board chair.

She achieved her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and Master of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Additionally, she completed internal medicine residencies at the University of Minnesota and Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard University in Massachusetts.

Upcoming Workshops*:

October 22: 13th Annual Cache Business Women’s Conference, Silent Auction & Jewelry Sale

November 12: Thrive: Navigating Change with Resilience, presented by Crystal Maggelet, FJ Management

December 10: Grand Finale: Graduation & Celebration Soirée with keynote

*Subject to change.

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