WBMI - Women Business Mentoring Initiative

The Women Business Mentoring Initiative (WBMI) is a non-profitable organisation founded by alumni of the Stanford Business School to support women entrepreneurs in the development of their business projects.

The WBMI, set up by Martine Liautaud, founder and Chief Executive of the investment bank Liautaud et Compagnie, and Honorary Chairman of the Stanford Business Club, has two main objectives:

• To mentor a "new" Chief Executive through the development phases of a business by: exchanging ideas, encouraging her to see things from different perspectives, challenging her decision-making, steering her towards unexpected options, encouraging her to take risks…
• To share the Mentors' wealth of experience with the women entrepreneur Mentees to save them time, empower them to think about their businesses in a different way, and to keep them on their toes - so that their businesses succeed – and last!

The WBMI has established a ‘resource of skills and talents’ based around its management team, the Stanford Business School alumni and the personal networks of the three founder members (Martine Liautaud, Thierry Zylberberg and Monique Chezalviel): this resource also comprises a large number of specialists from various professional fields who provide a range of complementary skills.