Honour Your Energy - Javeste Dulcio
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Javeste Dulcio is the Chief Legal Officer at Balance Homes, a start-up whose main investor is Serena Williams’s husband, Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit. Javeste is a Harvard educated lawyer, currently living in London and has worked in-house, at a family office and now at a start-up.  She’s what we would call a ‘Frequent Flyer’, an accomplished professional woman in a senior role, deeply embedded in her field but will pivot for the right opportunity.  Javeste’s story is about growing up in the Bahamas, where her parents' commitment to raising confident, self-assured children influenced her determination to attend an Ivy league college in the US before then attending Harvard.  Delving deep into Javeste’s career, we get an understanding of how she eventually came full circle with her initial ambitions to utillise her legal skills in helping her community.  Key Takeaways: Her reasons for and decision to study law and what steps she took to get to Harvard How different it is to being an in-house lawyer to being a Chief Legal Officer (CLO) at a start-up The role of a CLO and how it has evolved  Some of her experiences being the only person of colour in a room and how she’s handled this Her three strategic career plays You can follow Javeste on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/javeste/ Join the community and sign up to the newsletter at www.meetpursuit.com and don’t forget to follow us on IG at @meetpursuit www.instagram.com/meetpursuit/ This is an AiAi Studios Production - www.aiaistudios.com IG: @aiai.studios  
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