![]() ![]() ![]() Segil began by setting up three endowment funds – one at her high school in Johannesburg, another at her law school in Los Angeles, and the final one at her business school in California. Women in the Exceptional Women Alliance Foundation commit to mentoring and being mentored for life. ![]() I wanted to build a sisterhood – a community that could advise, support, enable, and celebrate each other for life.” ![]() “That is when I realized that I would only be happy if I could pay it forward. When she sold her consulting firm and joined a Fortune 200 board, she thought she would be happy. Her business books were published (and so was her novel), she started what became a leading strategic alliance consulting company, and traveled the world consulting and giving speeches. She built businesses in health care and the distribution of advanced materials, then began teaching executive education in strategic alliances at Caltech. “That is when the fun began!” Segil says. So, she left law and became an entrepreneur. She, her husband and baby son then moved to America, where she obtained her JD, passed the California Bar, worked for a judge, then joined a large law firm in litigation – and realized that she hated it. When the dean told her she was foolish to be pursuing a JD, she persisted. ![]()
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