ESTABLISHING AND GROWING A LEGACY

THE LARRAINE SEGIL LEGACY STORY OF THE EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION

LARRAINE SEGIL

FOUNDER, CHAIR AND CEO OF THE EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION

How it all started

After a successful career as a lawyer, entrepreneur, and CEO of companies in Finance, Healthcare, and Aerospace Advanced Materials, Larraine Segil created the first consulting firm in the area of Strategic Partnering and Alliances. 20 years later she merged her firm with Vantage Partners LLC, Experts in Negotiation, to create the world's leading consultancy in Partnering and Negotiation.

Having authored 8 books, written 14 songs and 3 children's books, taught Executive Education to senior technology executives at Caltech for 24 years, served on the World Health Organization WHO SAAG Advisory Board, as well as on the Board of a Fortune 200 company, Larraine decided, upon selling out of Vantage Partners, to create a methodology that took her Intellectual Property in Strategy and Partnering, and applied it to the area of Mentoring.

Never having had a mentor herself, she set up three endowment funds at the institutions that had educated her, and applied her proprietary Mentoring Process to the women she chose from there, and to whom she gave both money and mentoring. They called themselves, The Larraine Segil Scholars.

The Larraine Segil Scholars

24 scholars were endowed when Larraine's endowments launched in 2012 until 2018 after which no new scholars were added to the group but the scholarships continue annually. The scholars below are those who continue to be involved in paying it forward to the network.

The Larraine Segil Scholar Endowments were personal donations by Larraine Segil to:

THE SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW, LOS ANGELES

Established December 2009 – Candidates accepted through 2018 – all were offered money plus mentoring; after 2018, candidates receive money only.

PEPPERDINE GRAZIADIO SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, LOS ANGELES

Larraine's donations began in 2012 and the endowment was established in May 2016 – in perpetuity, a money scholarship is given to a qualified candidate – Candidates accepted through 2018 all were offered money and mentoring; after 2018, candidates receive money only.

KINGSMEAD SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA

Established August 2015 to pay the private school education cost for 9th-12th grade – 2 Candidates accepted 2015 and graduated. Support continues for one candidate studying to become an Actuary at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

The methodology of EWA created by Larraine Segil and her expertise in strategic partnering.

The Methodology Larraine created and used with the Larraine Segil Scholars, was so successful in application, flexibility, durability and adaptation, that upon the suggestions of Pamela Irwin, Linda LoRe and Jacqueline McCauley (Larraine Segil Scholars) Larraine funded the creation of the Larraine Segil Scholars Foundation on August 16th, 2017, a California Non Profit, Public Benefit Corporation, also DBA as The Exceptional Women Alliance Foundation and DBA as EWA. Larraine then codified her concepts with writings, videos, and supporting data onto the EWA Website which is now the depository of all the EWA Data.

This methodology continues to withstand the test of time and the entire premise of the MENTOR process created, taught and implemented by Larraine has continued to inspire Cohort after Cohort. Larraine also created the concept of Mentor Liaison - so that each EWA knows that her Mentor Liaison will connect her with anyone in the network as needed or desired for her benefit. To that end, ML's have assembled teams of EWAs to support their sisters who may be going through crises or new situations and need input. e.g. 3 of the EWA CFO's volunteered their expertise to a newly appointed CEO, CHRO's assembled to support a CEO with HR Challenges and more. Larraine has donated all the Intellectual property she has created which is evidenced on the website or in the materials, videos, writings, podcasts and other IP associated with the design, measurement and implementation of the EWA Program, to the EWA Foundation, in perpetuity.

Larraine wrote all the materials used by the Network which includes the Training Manual, Metrics (beginning middle and end of the program), the Newsletters Monthly, the Launch, Mid-Session and the Final Graduation Materials. The Ethics Guidelines, and the Contracts that each EWA signs have been created by the Law Firm of Sidley Austin who have donated their services to EWA.