Women in Business: Fieldstone Homes
12896 Pony Express Rd #400, Draper | 801.233.8300 | fieldstonehomes.com Headquartered in Draper, FieldStone Homes builds homes up and down the Wasatch Front for its clients, but the homebuilder itself has also become home for its more than 70 employees. Although most of those toiling on the construction sites are men, both men […]
Women in Business: Courtney Anderson, Spa Trouvé
Courtney Anderson has always been fiercely independent and a passionate entrepreneur. Even at 4 years old, she recognized her passion for the beauty industry as she assured her mom that she would be “Miss. America, of course!” With that passion, Courtney became Miss Alpine, an accomplished pianist, a graduate of BYU, wife to Nicholas Anderson, […]
Women in Business: The A-Team at Gatehouse No. 1
While the team at Gatehouse includes its fair share of men and muscle, you are likely to run into one of the many amazing women when you walk into Gatehouse No. 1’s 10,000-square-foot showroom in Orem. “I work with the best of the best. Nothing makes me feel better than knowing each and every one […]
Women in Business: Emily Wright, dōTERRA
Humble Beginnings Over two decades ago, Emily Wright came into the essential oil business without really knowing what essential oils were. “I was actually a little embarrassed that I ended up working for a network marketing company, and on top of that, a company that sold ‘voodoo’ oils,” she explains. Over time, […]
Women in Business: Jeanette Bennett & Briana Stewart
Bennett Communications 424 W 800 N, #201 Orem (801) 802-0200 utahvalley360.com Sixteen years ago, the first issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ rolled off the press and into the valley’s offices, with Alan Ashton on the inaugural cover. The new title was designed as a sister publication to Utah Valley Magazine, which was launched […]
Women in Business: Rachelle Ferrin & JaNae Harrison
McGee’s Stamp & Trophy 290 E State Rd, American Fork | (801) 980-7999 1544 S State St, Orem | (801) 226-7890 7095 S State St, Midvale | (801) 566-4567 mcgeestampandtrophy.com Jesse McGee started McGee’s Stamp & Trophy in 1966 and has been evolving the business ever since. For the past four decades, he’s done so […]
Women in Business: Mary Crafts Price
Culinary Crafts 573 W State St, #A Pleasant Grove (801) 225-6575 culinarycrafts.com Culinary Crafts has been a staple of the culinary and business scene in Utah Valley for more than three decades. The face of the company has long been Mary Crafts, who built the company from its early days as she pulled a wagon […]
Women in Business
Nearly 100 years ago, women nationwide were granted the right to vote. Now in 2019, women are winning the local economy in a landslide. Meet 6 of Utah’s female business leaders who are casting ballots of leadership and innovation.
Women, entrepreneurs part of growing wealth pie in Provo
Startup Building, Braid workshops, Girls Summit, Women Who Build, and collaboration with BYU, UVU and others — these are all part of Provo City’s efforts to be part of wealth creation in the community. Workforce development and job creation are important pieces of the economic development pie. So it’s important for the city to play […]
Decades: Women act their age
Walk through a woman’s lifetime from her 20s to her 80s. Spoiler alert! Each of these local girlie girls think they’re living in the best stage of life.
4 Utah Valley companies promoting + supporting women in the workplace
She works hard for the money. (So hard for the money.) To be frank, the stats regarding women in the Utah workplace are less than fun. At the Women Tech Council’s Talent Innovation Summit, Cydni Tetro, co-founder and executive director of WTC, outlined the tough trends. Compared to similarly employed men, women earn 70 cents […]
The Let’s Be Better: 10 ways our culture can still improve for working women
Let’s talk. In the women’s issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ, the ladies weigh in on what it’s like to be a woman in business in 2016. Here are 10 ways our culture can still improve for working women. 1. More, please. “Although women now make up 38 percent of the business owners, women are only […]
Doctor’s Orders: For Dr. Shelly Savage, family, faith and fortitude are the best medicine
Dr. Shelly Savage will see you now. The founder of Grandview Family Medicine is working her dream — helping patients, working alongside her husband, being a mom to her six children, living her LDS faith, and paying it forward. And her ability to “do it all” comes down to one key component. “You can […]
Storybook School: For 33 years, Cheryl Lant has taught preschoolers to read and to lead
Cheryl Lant is a self-taught entrepreneur. And she is one talented teacher. Thirty-three years ago, she opened her first Learning Dynamics Preschool in Orem. Today? There are five Learning Dynamics locations — four in Utah, one in Arizona — and their phonics-based reading program is being marketed to schools across the West, with more […]
The Best Not Say That Again: 13 phrases that need to take an early retirement
Let’s talk. In the women’s issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ, the ladies weigh in on what it’s like to be a woman in business in 2016. Here are 13 ways our culture can still improve for working women. 1. “How do you balance it all?” “I don’t. I’m just sleep deprived. If things need to […]
Starr Player: Starr Fowler has traveled the world championing humans (and their resources)
Starr Fowler is a woman of the people. Throughout her 15-year career, the HR genius has been a coach, a strategist, a champion, a leader, and an employee game-changer. “It’s funny, because everyone thinks when you go into HR, you do it because you like people,” says Fowler, who is the senior VP of human […]
The Good: 10 reasons it’s never been better to be a working woman
Let’s talk. In the women’s issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ, the ladies weigh in on what it’s like to be a woman in business in 2016. Here are 10 reasons it’s never been better to be a working woman. 1. Open table. “I love that the business world is recognizing that having women at the […]
Where the rubber meets the road: First female UDOT region director gives confidence the green light
This is one of a five-story series, “Empower Hour,” for Utah Valley Magazine. When Teri Newell steps into her weekly staff meeting, 10 employees stare back. Eight of those are male. She’s used to it by now. Teri is the Region 3 director of the Utah Department of Transportation, an area that covers road maintenance and […]
Utah Valley Magazine editor answers 5 questions in SheBizUtah video
Utah Valley Magazine Editor-in-Chief Jeanette Bennett answered five questions in the most recent SheBizUtah video. SheBizUtah, founded by Provo’s Sherrie Hall Everett, encourages women in business to use video to promote their businesses. In the video, interviewees are asked five questions, which they draw out of a jar. Utah Valley Magazine was the first publication […]
5 things you didn’t know about being a woman in tech
Written By Sara Jones, president of IFINIDI in Salt Lake and co-founder of the Women Tech Council 1. I use the words “what if” a lot. We all go through life wishing things could be done differently. Technology has the power to change the way we live and work. I helped launch video and e-book products […]
EDGEhomes: Marketing trio helps customers see clearly
Sponsored Story Usually when you think “construction,” you think of burly men hauling building materials and operating heavy-duty machinery. You don’t usually think of women like Kellie Little, Megan Van Oostendorp and Teresa Warner. These three women, along with Dylan Bitton, run the marketing scene at EDGEhomes, the fastest-growing and second-largest homebuilder in Utah. While […]
Atta Girl: 5 reasons women are drawn to direct sales
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
Oh, yes she did: 5 influential women in Utah Valley’s direct sales world
This is one of 10 lists on direct sales featured in the Spring 2015 issue of Utah Valley BusinessQ. Can we be direct? Network marketing is here to stay. It’s a popular topic around these parts, where downlines are the uptalk. In fact, Utah County has the highest concentration of direct sales companies in the nation, […]
Women at work: A Nu Woman
This is one out of five stories in the Utah Valley BusinessQ series “Women at Work.” Kara Schneck is in the middle of one beautiful career. As corporate communications director for Provo-based Nu Skin, Schneck has traveled around the world as a spokesperson of the $3.17-billion direct sales company. “This year I celebrated 20 years […]
Women at work: Hail to the Chief
This is one out of five stories in the Utah Valley BusinessQ series “Women at Work.” A week before our interview, Carine Clark had a career-changer. Her South Jordan-based Allegiance merged with St. Louis-based Maritz Research, catapulting Clark from the CEO of 100 employees to the CEO of 900. Overnight. It was so not just […]
On patrol: One of Utah County’s few female police officers
There’s never a typical workday in law enforcement: one day it’s a headline-worthy trauma and the next it’s a noisy neighborhood dog. Between the extremes, Karalee Tracy comes to work ready to face the day fearlessly as one of two women with the Orem City Police. Karalee was born and raised in Delta, where her […]
Creative app-titude: Rhonna Designs
If you haven’t heard of the app Rhonna Designs, ask your wife, friend, or daughter — someone you know has it on her phone. And she’s no doubt using it to put your Instagram photos to shame. Rhonna Designs — started by Orem mother-of-three Rhonna Farrer — is a photo design and editing app launched […]
On the ball: Renee Tribe’s got game on the Utah County lacrosse scene
The world of sports is often portrayed as fiercely competitive and male-dominated. But when it comes to the Greater Utah Lacrosse League (GULL), a woman is leading the fierce competition. Renee Tribe, co-founder and co-owner of GULL with Marty Wescott, has always been comfortable around guys and sports, but it wasn’t until her son started […]
In good hands: The sole female general surgeon in Utah County
Dr. Jennifer Tittensor is writing the prescription for women in medicine as the only female general surgeon in Utah County In hollywood productions, surgeons are often stereotyped as egotistical, arrogant know-it-alls. But if you walk a mile in surgeon Jennifer Tittensor’s shoes, you’d quickly learn it’s less about being the hot shot of the hospital […]
What Women Want
Women want many things — like a happy family, an education, a career, fitness, fashion and fun — just to name a few. We assembled a team of local wonder women, including moms with mom-entum, sisters who serve, ladies who launch and more for some girl talk about what it takes to want for nothing. […]