Influential Woman · Small business support and AI automation agency
Sharlene Javier
Co-founder, Stacks and Stories
New York City, NY
Her Story
About Sharlene
Sharlene Javier serves as co-founder of Stacks and Stories, an agency she created with her partner to support new and small businesses, particularly in Latino communities. The agency follows a three-step blueprint that moves businesses from clarifying their core purpose and model, to building brand identity and visuals, and finally implementing AI automation for processes such as customer service, lead generation, funnels, and content engines. With more than 10 years of experience, Javier also works as a program manager at Summons Community Care, a Bronx-based nonprofit, where she translated regulatory manuals into operational workflows, built an audit framework from scratch, and prepared teams to deliver services through a social care network program for Medicaid members. Her background in turning complex projects into reality informs her current focus on small business scaling, AI and process automation, and operations structuring.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Sharlene
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
You have to have the right mindset. When you're a woman and you're coming from a minority, you will always have a lot of limitations, whether people are saying you cannot do it or whether people are just afraid themselves. If you listen to all the noises around you, you will never do anything. Life actually happens when you do the experiments, when you do that that scares you. When you actually have a different mindset and you're just gonna do it, what is gonna happen? When you leave that fear on the side, prepare yourself, study, know your business. That's the only thing you will need.
02What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Since I live in a couple of countries now, I believe respect and empathy. Even in different countries, you need to understand things from a different point of view, not from your point of view or how you were raised. It's just about respecting and being empathetic of your surroundings. Also being persistent and consistent. It requires that, because sometimes we humans want things fast but it doesn't happen that way.
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