Friday, October 24, 2025 at the Utah State Correctional Facility (map)

What’s it All About?

At Defy’s Business Coaching Events, volunteer coaches support the talented, ambitious Entrepreneurs in Training (EITs) who are progressing through Defy’s CEO of Your New Life program, developing employment readiness skills and taking the first steps in their entrepreneurial journeys. Volunteers provide one-on-one coaching on EITs’ resumes and personal statements and serve as early sounding boards for the business concepts that EITs are beginning to develop. In addition to career coaching and business planning activities, these events also include fun icebreakers and powerful empathy-building activities, which encourage conversations and connections that enhance EITs' self-esteem, ambition, and sense of hope that is critical to their transformational journey. 

Date: Friday, October 24, 2025

• Arrival Time: 9:00 am MT

• Start Time: 10:00 am MT

• End time: 5:00 pm MT

• Location: Utah State Correctional Facility

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Please join us on Thursday, December 11, for the Defy Utah Business Pitch Competition & Graduation at the Utah State Correctional Facility!

What's it all about?

Business pitch competition and graduations are the culminating events for Entrepreneurs in Training (EITs) as they complete Defy's rigorous CEO of Your New Life program. During these events, EITs present their business ideas in several rounds of a Shark Tank-style competition to panels of volunteer judges. Judges ask clarifying questions, provide feedback to strengthen the business concepts and pitches, and evaluate the overall presentations with their fellow judges to select competition winners. The event also includes icebreaker and empathy-building exercises designed to create an inclusive and accepting community. At the end of the day, five winning pitches are selected from the group in an awards ceremony, followed by a cap and gown graduation ceremony in which EITs are awarded a Certificate of Entrepreneurship issued by the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.

Details

• Date: Thursday, December 11, 2025

• Time: 9:00 am - 6:30 pm MT

• Location: Utah State Correctional Facility - Bear - Salt Lake City, UT

• Transportation: The prison is 10 miles and approximately 15 minutes from the Salt Lake City Airport.

  • Drive Self - Arrive at Prison @ 9 am

Sign Up & Clearance Paperwork Deadline: 

Sunday, November 9, 2025