Manhattan Beach Women in Business

Twelve years ago, when Debra Lauzon first imagined founding a group in Manhattan Beach that would represent the busy, hardworking, inspired businesswomen in the area, she had no idea that over a decade later it’s namesake conference would reach all corners of the South Bay, and even touch the lives of women in Los Angeles and Orange County.

“I got involved with the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce immediately after opening my law firm, Lauzon & Euler, in 1996. The networking opportunities and connections that I made through that involvement helped me to grow my business right from the beginning!”

It was only three short years later that Lauzon added Founder of the Manhattan Beach Women in Business to her title list of accolades, a busy, impressive list that also includes Crown Jewel Club Board Member, Moms in Touch Leader, as well as involvement with numerous other local school committees and groups.

“I was one of only a few woman on the board of the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce in 1999, and during our retreat there was a man from Arizona who told me their chamber had a group just for businesswomen. So I decided we needed something like that here. It started out as 10-20 of us meeting at Coco’s for lunch, and for the first few months it was all friends and colleagues I begged or threatened,” Debra reminisces with a laugh. “Later that same year I attended the Governor’s Conference for Women, and I knew that we needed something like that in the South Bay.”