About Jodie Baker, Founder & Group CEO of Xakia
Founder & Group CEO Jodie Baker draws on her own experience as an in-house lawyer and drives the vision of giving corporate legal departments the legal matter management tools they need to improve visibility, reporting, and efficiency improvements.
Jodie is an innovator and business builder who founded Xakia to solve a gap in the market for simple, powerful and affordable in-house legal software.
Xakia now has clients across five continents, and it is a female-led company, with headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, and Kansas City, USA.
Xakia/Zakia (Ză: ki: äh)
Sakia is the name of a Persian water wheel capable of considerable efficiency in collecting and distributing water.
In-house legal teams, akin to a sakia water wheel, must collect information, requirements and risk, process them through a funnel of knowledge and experience and dispense solutions in the most efficient manner possible.
Legal resources are often spread extremely thin but must ensure all parts of an organization are considered in the application of skill when delivering solutions.
In an ever-expanding regulatory landscape, legal departments must constantly find new, inventive ways to address the demand on their time.
Enter Xakia.
Empowered with simple, clear legal department intelligence (aka. legal data analytics), in-house legal teams now have the capacity to understand their legal function and instantly identify opportunities for efficiency gains and productivity improvements.
Implementing efficiencies leaves room for further understanding and identification of the next opportunity to optimize your team. And so, the circle of efficiency loops and continuous improvement begins to turn - just like a water wheel.