Career Development Series

Level-up your leadership and
better lead your teams.

Now accepting applications for 2025! Click to apply.

Join an exclusive cohort of female leaders in the
8-month Career Development Series for mid to senior-level leaders.

          ✔️  Improve your career trajectory.
          ✔️  Increase your network of colleagues and mentors.
          ✔️  Learn from experts through our specific career development curriculum.

 

ABOUT THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT SERIES:

          📌  The program runs January 2025 to August 2025 – scroll to the bottom for a complete list of dates and locations.

         📌  The monthly in-person sessions are hosted by some of Utah’s most innovative organizations, offering a peek at various companies and industries.

        📌   A Zoom recorded version will also be available to accommodate participants when in-person attendance isn’t an option.

       📌   The cost of the series is a reasonable $995 for eight sessions, including an end-of-session celebration in August of 2023

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Accepting Applications for the 2025 Cohort

We are now accepting applications for our Wasatch Front Career Development Series. Accepted applicants will be notified in December 2024 for the 2025 cohort.

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Long-term Benefits & Lasting Value

YOU WILL LEARN:

  • Key job factors specific to you and how to plan a career path
  • How to advocate and negotiate 
  • Strategies to make better decisions
  • Ways to implement successful mentorship
  • Ideas to consider regarding mental health
  • Understand the psychology of leadership
  • Specific tools to help your team engage
  • Dealing with unconscious and implicit bias

ADDED VALUE:

  • Monthly meeting is live-streamed
  • Cohort of like-minded women
  • Exclusive access to high-level speakers
  • Introduction to eight of Utah’s most innovative organizations
  • Online learning portal, encouraging learning throughout the series
  • Lunch included for in-person trainings

ADDED VALUE:

  • Monthly meeting is live-streamed
  • Extra monthly Zoom Networking Session
  • Cohort of like-minded women
  • Exclusive access to high-level speakers
  • Introduction to eight of Utah’s most innovative organizations
  • Online learning portal, encouraging learning throughout the series
  • Lunch included for in-person trainings
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8-Month Program

$995

“The Career Development Series allowed me to build my network and community of women leaders. This program increased my perspective of what it means to be a woman in leadership. CDS definitely helped me increase my leadership skills and resources.“

Seraphine Kapsandoy PhD, RN

Chief Clinical Information Officer/AVP, Intermountain Healthcare

Eight Months of Career Development Training

 

We have included sample monthly topics of our past cohorts. Some topics are the same year to year, some rotate depending on current trends in business, management or other relevant areas.  If you have topics or speakers you’d like to recommend for 2024, please email hello@wliut.com.

Defining Your Career: Predictive Index and Career Drivers

JANUARY

Thursday, 
January 23, 2025

10:00 am – 2:30 pm

 

Traeger Grills
533 S 400 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

 

Zoom “Lunch & Learn” 

12:00 pm to 12:45 pm 

Decision Making & Board Membership

FEBRUARY

Thursday,
February 20, 2025
10:00 am – 2:30 pm

 

Weave
1331 W Powell Way

Lehi, UT, 84043

 

Zoom “Lunch & Learn”
12:00 pm to 12:45 pm

 

Crucial Conversations & Love and Leadership

MARCH

Thursday,
March 20, 2025
10:00 am – 2:30 pm

 

Zions Tech Center

7860 Bingham Jct Blvd Midvale, UT 84047

 

Zoom “Lunch & Learn”
12:00 pm to 12:45 pm

 

Leadership and Mental Health

APRIL

Thursday,
April 17, 2025
10:00 am – 2:30 pm

 

Larry H. Miller Offices
Tower, 9350 S. 150 E, Sandy, UT 84070

 

Zoom “Lunch & Learn”
12:00 pm to 12:45 pm

 

Panel of Utah's Female Supreme Court Justices

MAY

Thursday,
May 15, 2025

10:00 am – 2:30 pm

 

United States Courthouse
351 S. West Temple

Salt Lake City, UT

 

Zoom “Lunch & Learn”
12:00 pm to 12:45 pm

Building Coalitions and Overcoming Bias

JUNE

Thursday,
June 19, 2025
10:00 am – 2:30 pm

 

Location TBD

TBD
 

Zoom “Lunch & Learn”
12:00 pm to 12:45 pm

Navigating Work and Family

JULY

Thursday,

July 17, 2025
10:00 am – 2:30 pm


Location TBD

TBD

 

Zoom “Lunch & Learn”
12:00 pm to 12:45 pm

Graduation Celebration

AUGUST

Thursday,

August 21, 2025

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

 

This Is The Place, Garden Place

2601 East Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108

 

What Other Graduates Are Saying

“The Career Development Series was like an executive leadership course designed especially for women. It included valuable skills training along with balanced but factual information about the career landscape for women in Utah. This is a ‘must’ series for those seeking to improve in their careers.”

Shelley Goodell

Vice President of E-Commerce and Guest Services, Megaplex Theatres

“As a young Latina, daughter of immigrants, second generation Utahn, and emerging professional, I found hope that women like me can find opportunities in Utah. I feel especially inspired and motivated by the content provided by the invited companies [and presenters], particularly “Defining Your Career” exercise with Instructure, learning about crisis management, and how to shift your paradigm with FranklinCovey. These were very powerful dialogues. I can’t wait to keep learning…My future already feels full and optimistic.”

Marlen Olmedo Estrada

Legislative Assistant, Utah State Senate

Accepting Applications for the 2025 Cohort.

We are now accepting applications for our Wasatch Front Career Development Series. Accepted applicants will be notified in December 2024 for the 2025 cohort.

Apply Now