Joy White

A charismatic, multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, attorney, and reinvention strategist for Black women has built a life and career to be rivaled. As the founder and CEO of Flawed Masterpiece®, Joy is also a certified transformational mindset coach and the sole creator of the proprietary six-phase F.L.A.W.E.D® Method journey of healing and self-discovery.

An esteemed employment attorney, a former Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel at the prestigious Morehouse College, and the now Managing Partner at her law firm, The White Legal Group, LLC, her myriad career successes speak volumes of her impressive work ethic.

Taking notes from her childhood and lifelong inspiration, Clair Huxtable of The Cosby Show, Joy set her very first goal at the early age of five. With a B.A. in English Literature from the illustrious Spelman College and her law degree (JD) from Vanderbilt University Law School, Joy knows what it means to reach the highest levels of success.

During her tenure as General Counsel at Morehouse College, Joy was an integral part of reshaping Title IX policy work around campus sexual assault. Being able to affect impactful and lasting change in decision-making and policy is an accomplishment she counts as one of her proudest.

In addition to nearly two decades of practicing employment law at some of the most prestigious law firms in the country, including King & Spalding LLP in Atlanta.

Single mother of two sons, Jayden and Bryson, and Tiko, the family dachshund hound.

In addition to being an award-winning employment attorney, Joy is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, corporate facilitator, award-winning filmmaker, serial entrepreneur, and non-profit board member who works tirelessly to pour her wealth of knowledge and resources into her students, mentees, clients, and community.

The recipient of numerous awards, including Top 100 Women of Influence, Who’s Who in Black Atlanta, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 40 under 40, National Black Lawyers Top 100, and Fortune Magazine’s Women Leaders in the Law, Joy is undoubtedly creating a legacy of service and purpose, providing a tangible blueprint for Black women to seek inspiration from and create their own paths forward—and she’s not done yet.        

Community servant.

Outside of her work life, Joy is a sought-after community leader and mentor. She currently sits on the board of the Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence and previously on the board of Men Stopping Violence.

Thought leader.

Joy's groundbreaking work has been featured in numerous publications. Most recently, her thought leadership was featured in Ebony Magazine, Black Enterprise Magazine, and the Georgia Bar Journal.

Joy maintains, though, that she thrives when she’s interacting with people one-on-one. Calling it her “zone of genius,” she has built a stellar reputation for personal, real-time, and tailored engagement with her clients and mentees.

Known for her authentic and straightforward approach, Joy encourages high-achieving Black women to shift their focus from what they’re doing or have yet to do to what they aren’t doing.

Joy knows firsthand that until past traumas are confronted in a meaningful way, career milestones will feel empty. Those values instilled by her mother, while undoubtedly contributing to her myriad of career success, were also detracting from her personal joy.

Raised by a strong single-working mother, independence, an extreme work ethic, and a stoic disposition were the values instilled in her from an early age.

Throughout the first half of her life, Joy held firm to the assumption that you didn’t – and shouldn’t – depend on anybody for anything. Joy was taught that it was up to YOU to take care of YOU. FULL STOP!

Joy’s ever-growing list of achievements and career milestones were positive reinforcers of this. But personal traumas gnawed at her soon after, and moments of true happiness and fulfillment often eluded her.

It was through this realization that Flawed Masterpiece® was born, a deep inner journey of self-exploration and healing that unraveled the question.

Fueled by an undying faith and unyielding courage, Joy is a living example that the success and the pain, the Corporate and the Hood – the Clair Huxtable and the Cardi B – can all coexist within you at the same damn time, and you shouldn’t be afraid to step into the fullness of who you are.        

Finding Joy in the Journey.

A survivor of sexual and domestic violence, Joy has seamlessly forged a unique path where her entrepreneurial work and legal work intersect and inform each other in powerful and curious ways.

Through dedicated and tailored trauma therapy, shadow work, and the confrontation of her inner child wounds, Joy was finally able to reimagine what her life could look like; rejecting the premise that perfection necessitated success, she embraced her rough edges and stopped trying to hide them.

Combining her unique blend of spirituality, neuroscience, and wellness work through play, music, and nature, Joy can deftly identify her client’s pain points, forge a path through and out of sitting in their pain. Her methodologies of dance, meditation, play, and mindfulness speak to a previously ignored layer of the modern Black woman.

Offering herself as a soft place to land, clients are drawn to her because they know she understands where they’ve been and, more importantly, knows how to get them to the other side.

Finding Beauty in your Flaws with Kintsugi

A central tenet to Joy’s personal and coaching work is the ancient Japanese art form and philosophy of Kintsugi, which teaches us that the breaking and the repair are the point of the story; the imperfections should be celebrated, not hidden.

Joy has always been a firm believer that your greatest offerings to the world are birthed from being your most authentic self, and, to her, the ultimate goal is to see Black women living fully in their purpose.

With a holistic commitment to living in your full purpose, Flawed Masterpiece® offers its clients and customers an empathetic and compassionate lens while being a powerful example that it can be done unapologetically and without compromising the real you are.