{"id":75630,"date":"2025-11-30T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75630\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:30:07","slug":"best-leader-of-a-small-san-diego-firm-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75630\/","title":{"rendered":"Best leader of a small San Diego firm in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Founded in 1991, Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP<\/a> is the largest certified women-owned law firm in San Diego, and one of the biggest in California.<\/p>\n

Managing partner Carolina Bravo-Karimi<\/a> directs a staff of about 120, including 65 attorneys, at the firm\u2019s downtown headquarters.<\/p>\n

Married to a man from Italy, Bravo-Karimi is multilingual. As a child, English was her third language as her mother is from Chile and her father grew up in Iran.<\/p>\n

An Irvine native and graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law, the 45-year-old mother of two is recognized for leadership in this year\u2019s Top Workplaces special awards in the small company category.<\/p>\n

She said leadership roles tend to come to her naturally. \u201cI think my executive coach once joked, \u2018Have you ever joined an organization and not become its top leader?\u2019 And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s happened,\u201d Bravo-Karimi said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

The following interview has been condensed for space and clarity.<\/p>\n

Do you have a leadership philosophy that you follow?<\/p>\n

I truly value connection, and connection at all levels. What I mean by connection is getting to know the people that I work with, getting to know what makes them tick, what gets them excited and what motivates them. One of the most important things we can do as leaders is open doors for opportunities. Without that connection, you don\u2019t know what opportunities your co-workers or your colleagues might be looking for or might be excited about.<\/p>\n

Is there somebody you modeled yourself after when you got this managing partner\u2019s job?<\/p>\n

The Wilson and Turner in our name are two of our founding mothers of the law firm \u2014 Claudette Wilson<\/a> and Vickie Turner<\/a>. They were both excellent attorneys and excellent leaders, but each very different. Claudette was the master of collaboration and building consensus. She had a gift for that and I really admired it so I tried to emulate that. Vickie was the master of conviction, making sure that our priorities are spot on. So I\u2019ve tried to marry the consensus and the conviction that I saw from the two of them and make them my own.<\/p>\n

What kind of advice would you give to someone who may be on the cusp of becoming the leader of a company, or has that ambition?<\/p>\n

Listen and observe as much as possible to determine how you want to lead. There is no one way to lead, and it has to be authentic and sincere in order for you to be effective. But you can learn so much from the people around you. Emulating doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re not sincere, but picking and choosing what\u2019s going to work for you and what\u2019s going to work for an organization as well, because my leadership style here at the firm might not mirror my leadership style at home, or my leadership style on the boards that I\u2019m on. It\u2019s also understanding the culture of an organization and ensuring that your leadership style is effective in that culture.<\/p>\n

Anything else you want bring up?<\/p>\n

I think when you get to work with like-minded, value-driven individuals, like I get to here at Wilson Turner Kosmo \u2014 we call it WTK \u2014 it\u2019s pretty easy to lead. I work with kind, intelligent, motivated people so it\u2019s a pleasure and it makes it a lot easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founded in 1991, Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP is the largest certified women-owned law firm in San Diego, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[387,74,76,75,43870],"class_list":{"0":"post-75630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-headlines","11":"tag-san-diego-news","12":"tag-top-workplaces"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}