Lea Jovy-Ford

Hello, I’m Lea Jovy-Ford (pronounced Lee-UH and not Lee).

I help founders and small business owners go ‘ from ME to WE’ and expand beyond themselves to grow a scalable, sustainable and global business…with equity and equality at the core.

Why Me?

I’ve worked for myself since 2005 and recently co-founded two startups – both in EdTech – and am currently the co-founder of Mission Equality and a virtual university, the Equaliversity. 

Some of the things I’ve achieved in almost two decades of entrepreneurship:

• Since 2005, built and lead several remote teams for my own solo businesses, of between 5-15 people, creating cultures based on loyalty and trust before ‘remote’ was even a thing.
• Pioneered the global, life-changing Location Independent movement (which inspired the likes of Dell to jump on the bandwagon) which garnered international press.
• Built an 8-figure business & raised a pre-seed round of $500k in 6 weeks, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. This business was intentionally and consciously diverse and deeply committed to anti-racism and decolonising education.

Which means I have deep and relevant experience in…

• The visions & strategies needed to start, build and grow a scalable business, especially online and remotely.
• The operational nuts & bolts – processes, people and technology – to go from solo founder/business owner to entrepreneur, leader and with a bigger team.

I know what it takes to go from ME to WE, without losing me in the process.  My goal is to do business differently. Subscribe to my newsletter to find out more about what that looks like.