Description
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
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