About Us
We are access to opportunity for aspiring women-led businesses to scale their Leader EQ and Business IQ.
Our Purpose
We are access to opportunity.
Our Vision
An ecosystem where the impossible is possible.
Our Mission
To create inspiring, actionable experiences and connections that fuel and steward excellence at scale.
EBW Evolution
Our Team
Today, more than ever it is critical that we propel women-led businesses to
scale and actively participate in their global economy to close the gender parity gap. We do this through the EBW growth-focused Business IQ and Leadership EQ development, coaching, and our proprietary and patent-pending matching technology. EBW, together with our global partnerships, corporations, capital providers, and inspired change-makers are making the impossible possible.
Phaedra Rogers
Communications Leader
Jim Brown
Operations/Finance Advisor
Ingrid Vanderveldt
Founder/CEO, MBA, M.Arch
Dare Rosebery
Exceptional Performance Coach
Jim Fitzpatrick
Chief Information Officer,
M.SC
Mo Alsaedi
Web development
Alison Bagwell
Health Portfolio Advisor
Peggy Kohn
Product Architect
Susan Plaisance
Member & Special Events Concierge
Pam Pike
Bookkeeping/Payroll
EBW Economic Sector Success Stories
Fintech Innovations
VISA made a large-scale investment into the creation of a women’s innovation competition to identify and recruit women into fintech. But the organization found it difficult to secure participants and global representation. EBW sourced companies from our network and filled VISA’s pipeline with innovative women-led fintech businesses from sought-after countries including the winner of the competition whose business formed the basis of a $10 million innovation portfolio.
Innovation Pipeline
EBW is an ongoing supporter of the United States Patent and Trademark Office programs and initiatives to increase women and diverse leaders who would apply for intellectual property (IP) protection. IP industries account for 38.2% of the total US GDP and almost ¾ of US exports. Since working together, the lift in patents amongst women has increased from 16.6% to 17.3% in one 12-month period.
Manufacturing
A New Supply Chain
During COVID, EBW utilized its global network to hire a 6-sigma black belt mechanical engineer to oversee a soup-to-nuts global supply chain to deliver ready-made surgical gowns to the State of Illinois. The contract was over $18M and helped save millions of lives.
Healthcare Solutions
During COVID, EBW pivoted the network to equip interested and qualified women with the tools to launch and operate their own EBW Cares consultancy. This enabled them to deliver complete and custom COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) solutions that were necessary into their local communities. This led to the first women-owned, women-led international PPE distribution platform later acquired by Shield Manufacturing.
