2025 Women In Business Thrive Series: Scholarship Award Luncheon

2025 Women In Business Scholarship Awards Luncheon
Keynote:“Igniting Your Leadership Journey: A Foundation for Success” presented by Michelle Kennedy, CEO of Plato Media

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 2025 Women In Business Annual Scholarship Awards Luncheon where we will award local women students educational scholarships to Utah State University and Bridgerland Technology College.

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

Michelle Kennedy, CEO of Plato Media
 

Michelle Kennedy is an accomplished entrepreneur, creative strategist, and founder of Plato Media Co., an event production company known for curating high-impact, artfully designed experiences for businesses and organizations. With a career that bridges intellectual property law and creative industries, Michelle is a leader who exemplifies the power of blending strategy, vision, and heart to bring ideas to life.

Before launching Plato Media, Michelle founded Kennedy Art & Entertainment Law — Utah’s first and only private law firm dedicated exclusively to entertainment law. Through her firm, she served a dynamic range of artists, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals, helping them protect and elevate their work through thoughtful legal counsel, contract negotiation, business strategy, and intellectual property advocacy. Her commitment to empowering creative voices shaped her reputation as a trusted advisor and fierce advocate for innovation.

Today, at the helm of Plato Media, Michelle leads a multidisciplinary team that produces events designed to inspire connection and catalyze growth. From professional conferences to corporate celebrations, her work transforms spaces and moments into unforgettable experiences — merging her legal mind, entrepreneurial insight, and artistic sensibility.

Michelle’s own leadership journey began early. After earning her Philosophy degree from Brigham Young University at just 19, she charted a nontraditional path that has blended business ownership, artistic exploration — including releasing an indie rock album under the moniker Calm Paradox — and professional service. Her career reflects an unwavering belief that leadership is not defined by a title, but by the courage to think independently, act intentionally, and elevate others along the way.

An advocate for creativity, collaboration, and lifelong learning, Michelle Kennedy invites audiences to embrace leadership as an evolving practice — rooted in curiosity, driven by purpose, and refined through service.

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