A Little History About The Founder

Darcie Harris is a business consultant, mentor, coach, champion, and advocate for female business owners and executives.

As CEO and founder of EWF International, a company offering peer advisory groups, coaching and consulting for female business owners and executives, Darcie has helped hundreds of women realize their professional dreams.  Under Darcie’s leadership, EWF International has grown to four locations and provides resources to countless women through the world wide web.

An accomplished speaker, consultant, facilitator and trainer, Darcie finds the fulfillment of her own dreams by encouraging women to think big, pursue their passions and achieve their personal best.  In particular, she enjoys teaching leadership skills to woman at all stages in their careers, giving them the encouragement, confidence, and inspiration to grow.

As a believer in the mantra, “Do what you love and love what you do,” Darcie has incorporated her love of horses and her experience as an equestrian into her leadership training through a talk encouraging women to embrace their power and use it for the greater good.  She weaves her love of movies into a leadership course, using movie clips to demonstrate the qualities of women in leadership roles.  She loves to read, walk her dogs, attend yoga classes and especially loves to cook for friends and family, finding every excuse to gather people around a feast.

Prior to launching EWF International, Darcie managed a 24 hour a day crisis helpline with a staff of five and 250 volunteers. Under her leadership these volunteers faced the darkest days in Oklahoma history on April 19, 1995.  Darcie managed the agency crisis response to community needs following the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building providing support and counseling to thousands of Oklahomans devastated by the tragedy.

Her previous roles in sales, marketing and management, combined with her love of learning, give Darcie a breadth of experience in entrepreneurship, strategic planning, project management, organizational structure and people-centered management.

Darcie serves on the Advisory Council for Harwood International, the Academic Program Advisory Committee for Oklahoma State University--Oklahoma City,  on the Leadership Team for the Institute for the Economic Empowerment of Women and as a volunteer for Peace Through Business, a program devoted to teaching business skills and providing mentors to women in developing countries.  In addition to classroom teaching, speaking on leadership, and finding classroom instructors and mentors for Peace Through Business students, in May of 2009, Darcie travelled with the  Peace Through Business staff to Kigali, Rwanda, to meet with the 2009 candidates, graduates and alumni.

Darcie is a respected media resource on women’s leadership and entrepreneurship and a regular editorial columnist for The Journal Record newspaper, the Executive Women’s Journal (published by EWF International) and is widely published on the internet.  She is certified in Conceptual Foundations of Organizational Lifecycles through the Adizes Graduate School for Organizational Transformation and serves on the Advisory Board for Harwood International.

In 2010 Darcie was named Oklahoma Women in Business Champion by the Small Business Administration.  Her achievements have been recognized by The Oklahoman, who selected her as one of five finalists for Woman of the Year, by the Edmond, OK Chamber of Commerce who selected her as one of three finalists for Woman of the Year and by WE Magazine when she was named as one of 15 finalists in the We Magazine for Women cover story competition.

Her passion for creating a sense of community makes her work a labor of love. She describes her work with women as the most rewarding of her career.