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Haydee Caldero is a Latina and the co-founder of Dignitas, LLC. She is responsible for designing the firm’s real estate and private asset investment models. She also advises business owners and entrepreneurs on capital structuring of their privately held companies, company equity raises, partnership structures and legal entity formation. Haydee actively coaches business executives of fast growth companies regarding strategic planning, corporate finance and partnership opportunities. Throughout her career she has served as an advisor to executives of closely held enterprises ranging from start-ups to companies with over $100 million in revenues.
She previously advised high net worth individuals and financial institutions on the disposition and recapitalization of over $5.0 billion in trophy commercial real estate throughout the United States. She has worked on marquee real estate assets including the Sears Tower, John Hancock, Inland Steel Building and Houston Galleria.
Haydee is an active member of the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. She also serves on the Board of Directers for North Branch Works, the Governor’s Board for the Steppenwolf Theatre Auxiliary Committee and is a member of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School’s Leadership Advisory Committee. She is a native of Chicago and attended Whitney Young Magnet High School; she received a B.A. in Government and Women’s Studies from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
What you’ll learn
- Haydee’s American dream and her path to pursue it
- How to build and keep wealth
- How to align your financial goals with your entrepreneurial goals
- What differentiates those who have wealth with those who don’t
- How some people that don’t make that much money retire with more money than people with higher income than they do
- The most important factor that determines the likelihood of being wealthy
- Haydee’s point of view on the emerging Latino wealth, the Latino attitude towards wealth and the key for Latinos to build wealth
- A surefire way to help you save money
- Why you must avoid debt, particularly credit card debt
- How she prepared to take the leap as an entrepreneur
- How she got her first clients at her company Dignitas
- Haydee’s key ingredients for success: Confidence, hard work and commitment
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