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Female Leadership And Mentor Exchange Advance and Empower the Next Generation Inspired by the tenacious young women around me I am proud to introduce the Female Leadership and Mentor Exchange FLAME. FLAME seeks to advance and empower next generation female leaders by creating and encouraging mentor relationships between women in executive level leadership roles with young women attending college or beginning a career. It is well documented that mentors can help young women build confidence in themselves and overcome selfdoubt in pursuing executive or leadership roles. That saida 2017 study by professional services firm Egon Zehnder found that only 54 of women have access to senior leaders who act as mentors or informal sponsors in their career.