Building the Blocks of Your Career with Dez Fleming (Start-Up Strategist and Entrepreneur)

How do you think about your career? How do you approach work and the value you want to get out of it? Dez Flemming played basketball at Cornell, and started with following the consulting and finance path with roles at Morgan Stanley and Deloitte. Today as a Strategist at Cadre and Entrepreneur, he encourages people to do one thing: reframe the concept of work, by thinking about your career as being paid to learn. We’re walking through Dez’s journey to discuss the factors you need to think about the factors you need to think about in evaluating your career path, growth , and what you want out of your first roles.  Additionally we discuss why being an athlete built you to thrive in start up culture,  and how his years on Cornell Basketball provided the foundation for executing his own entrepreneurial ventures with Odyssey Experiences. Contents: 6:38 How he learned about entrepreneurship  as path creative side of business and a path that he wanted to  pursue 12:00 The factors you need to think about in evaluating your career path, growth , and what you want out of your first roles 15:00 Why he wanted to gain transferable skills out of his first job 19:23 How to work your teams alumni network. 23:34 His entrepreneurial  venture with Odyssey Experiences and the exact steps he took to launch his business 45:33 Court to Corporate Check Down (New Segment!) Join Us: Court to Corporate is a growing community of athletes in the business world, join us at www.CourtToCorporate.com