In a field that changes faster than most can document it, Nataly Medici, founder and CEO of Medici Expert and one of the interviewees for Drofa Comms’ Women Leading the Way journal, speaks the language of steadiness. Her firm helps fintech and crypto ventures stay grounded amid expansion through sound legal, regulatory, and financial design.

After years in corporate finance and compliance, she reached a simple insight: structure alone doesn’t build resilience. She had seen the strengths of the classical model — structure, scale, operational precision — and also its limits, including rigidity, inertia, and difficulty keeping pace with evolving realities.

Her work with digital-native projects reshaped her view of how innovation meets legacy systems. Sometimes they collide, sometimes they reinforce each other, yet they always force a rethink of how design and responsibility show up in practice. That realisation became Medici Expert’s foundation: progress needs maturity; speed needs guardrails.

On inclusion, her view is down-to-earth. Many barriers in fintech and crypto are subtle and systemic — rarely declared outright. They arise from how industries cultivate cross-disciplinary expertise and whose paths they make visible. Mentorship, she believes, remains the missing link between ambition and access.

Across regions, Nataly observes opportunities taking different shapes. In Europe, inclusion is formalised yet often tentative. In the Gulf, tradition frames behaviour but leaves room for fresh frameworks to grow. What connects these settings is the need for adaptive presence — staying authentic while reading the structure around you.

Looking ahead, her outlook is clear and constructive: “In the next five years, I hope to see a broader shift toward stability in every sense of the word. And I believe women will play a growing role in designing that stability — at the level of strategic architecture.”

👉 Read the full interview with Nataly Medici in Women Leading the Way by Drofa Comms: https://womenlead.co.uk/ideas/nataly-medici