40 Under Forty 2024: Olivia Jusme, diversifies the supply chain
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Olivia Jusme
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A handful of married couples – each in their own right – have won the 40 Under Forty award over the years, including (from left) Jake and Sarah Connell Sanders (Classes of 2014 and 2020) and Olivia and Leonard Jusme (Class of 2024), pictured here at Moore State Park in Paxton.
- Title Sourcing vice president of supplier diversity
- Company National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, in Washington D.C.
- Residence Worcester
- Birthplace Boston
- College American International College
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Jusme is a talented multitasker, a skill she picked up during her years at AIC pursuing a business management degree, where she balanced classes, being a member of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, supporting her household, and raising a child.
She gained experience as a supplier diversity lead during her nine-year stint at The Hanover Insurance Group in Worcester, serving as a leader within the organization’s Kinship Village Business Resource Group, an effort to empower Black employees and the broader insurance community. Jusme now handles supplier diversity for the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce as a vice president at the organization, at a time when many businesses are interested in exploring pathways to increase diversity among their vendors. Jusme has spent time in the last few years volunteering at the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester, helping create literacy kits for Earth Day celebrations, and serving as a volunteer long jump coach for South High Community School. While having a child at 17 wasn’t in Jusme’s life plan, it turned out to be her life motivation, providing for her daughter to the point where she’s heading to college.
Would you time travel to the past or future? The future, to see how the foundation I built for my family has flourished.
What piece of advice guides you? “Success does not happen in one day.” It’s a way of giving myself grace but also understanding I can be successful as long as I stay focused.
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