WBCUtah offers individualized and group support to help you learn and develop business ownership skills. To get the most out of our services, participate in our female-focused workshops, webinars and courses and compliment them with free one-on-one sessions with a business advisor.
Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Contact Brigetta – brigetta@wbcutah.org
Meet Your Business Advisors
Pulling from their own experience, our business advisors can help seasoned and aspiring women business owners alike. To get started, create a client profile and then request a session.
WBCUtah is able to offer individualized women-focused business advising at no cost to you because the expense is covered by taxpayer dollars through SBA grants and other funders.
NO SHOWS: When you miss an appointment, our talented advisor’s time is wasted, which could have been utilized in assisting another woman business owner. If you are unable to make your appointment, please be courteous and cancel or reschedule at the earliest moment possible. If you no show more than twice we reserve the right to discontinue free advising to you.
Northern Utah
Counties served: Box Elder, Cache, Daggett, Davis, Duchesne, Juab, Morgan, Rich, Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Wastach & Weber.
Connie Yengich
Connie is the Lead Business Advisor for the Women’s Business Center. She has over 20 years of business experience, and even began her own construction consulting company in 2001. She’s financially savvy, with experience working with both Zions Bank and KeyBank. Best of all, Connie has a passion for helping other women be successful, and she is always happy to lend a helping hand.
Lori Haslem
Lori Haslem has owned and operated her own business for the past 7 yerars while being a wife, and mother of 4 in Vernal, Utah. She discovered her true passion of helping entrepreneurs after becoming an instructor on how to start your own business, then later becoming a start-up specialist at the Vernal Innovation Hub. There is nothing more rewarding than watching an entrepreneur grow and succeed and she is ready to help you do it.
Leisa Wallace
As an experience author, business owner, and business advisor, Leisa Wallace has spent the majority of her life honing her craft as an entrepreneur. She is a DIY (do it yourself) obsessed and loves helping creatives turn their talents into profitable business. Her skills include, but are not limited to… branding, advertising, social media marketing, and website design. Leisa loves being anywhere there is sunshine and water, reading writing, and hanging out with her two cats, two dogs, two goats, two children, and 1 husband.
Southern & Eastern Utah
Counties served: Beaver, Carbon, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Kane, Millard, Piute, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Washington and Wayne.
Sarah Barstow
Sarah Barstow moved to Moab in 1997, and fell head over heals in love with the desert. In 2003, she opened up her own boutique, and spent nearly 2 decades learning and living the ins and outs of a successful business ownership (while also raising 2 boys, and writing 2 humorous kids books – which are really for parents & the daily challenges they encounter). She knows how amazing it feels to turn a dream into reality, and wants to share that feeling with you!
Debbie Drake
As a creative academic, Debbie is constantly on the search for new and bettter ways to expand her education – in order to turn around and share her newly acquired skills with others. She has explored a variety of careers from home designer and general contractor, to artist, instructor, and instructional designer in higher education – always looking for ways to help others to find success in their own pursuits. For the last few years her creative energy, along with an amazing team of women, has been focused on building the new Women’s Business Center in Southern Utah that helps women start and grow their businesses in rural Utah.
Training
Join a group of women just like you and better your businesses together.
Annual Events
We have a lineup of popular training and special events throughout the year that support, teach and inspire. Check out our calendar for dates and details.
