Training
Heart-Centered Leadership in a Changing World
Today’s leadership landscape is defined by rapid change, AI disruption, economic uncertainty, and intergenerational friction, creating growing tension between professional demands and personal well-being. Our programs empower professionals, managers, and leaders to cultivate a heart-centered approach. We offer practical skills to navigate these complexities, foster genuine care, and build careers and teams that are both successful and sustainable.
Leadership Skills
Professional Skills
Personal Development / Growth
Leadership Skills
In this session, we’ll cover practical tips and successful strategies for prioritizing tasks; setting realistic deadlines and communicating more collaboratively around deadlines; being clear about expectations around work product, communication and timelines; and, how to manage your time (and others!) efficiently. In breakout sessions, participants will discuss challenges they experience with delegation and strategies for overcoming those challenges. In full room debriefs, participants will learn from each other how and when delegation strategies work effectively. Participants will leave the session with a plan for delegating an upcoming project or assignment.
Developing emotional intelligence leads to better collaboration, advanced interpersonal relationships, and improved communication. In this session, we will cover the five components of emotional intelligence, as articulated by Daniel Goleman in his NY Times bestseller “Emotional Intelligence.” In breakout groups, participants will confront a hypo (one that we create together) about working with someone with low EQ and discuss strategies for managing the situation. We’ll also use some time to rank our own emotional intelligence in each of the five categories and talk through strategies for improving and delivering higher EQ. Your people will leave the session with a deeper understanding of the role of emotional intelligence in professional success and practical tips for recognizing and managing low EQ in themselves and others.
In these sessions, we not only share best practices for giving and receiving feedback, but we also seek to shift mindsets around feedback, reshaping its purpose to drive performance and engagement. Depending on the target audience of the session, we will either share practical tips and strategies for preparing for and consistently delivering timely feedback with emotional intelligence or for receiving feedback with emotional intelligence and turning it into action (or both!) In breakout sessions, participants will talk through the challenges they experience giving or receiving feedback. In large room debriefs, we will discuss strategies for overcoming those challenges and planning positive and constructive feedback conversations. Participants will leave the session with a new mindset around feedback and concrete skills and planning techniques for delivering and receiving timely, constructive, and positive feedback that drives performance and engagement.
Discover the transformative power of Heart-Centered Leadership! Empathy, authenticity, and human connection are increasingly recognized as critical skills for today’s leaders. It’s about leading with compassion, integrity, and a focus on the well-being and growth of you and your team, as well as achieving desired results. This session unpacks the behaviors and actions of those who lead with authenticity and empathy, reveals pathways for unlocking team potential, and equips law firm leaders with strategies to boost engagement. Participants will engage in polling, group discussion and large room debriefs to reflect on their own leadership style and identify opportunities and actions to practice heart-centered leadership immediately.
In this session, we will introduce six common leadership styles. We will then lead group discussions about each leadership style, where participants have seen these styles in action, where they’re best used, and where they’re best avoided. We’ll discuss strategies for recognizing when and how to flex between leadership styles. Participants will leave the session with a better understanding of leadership styles, a deeper appreciation of their own natural leadership style(s), and tips and techniques for flexing into other leadership styles as situations demand.
In this session, we will share practical strategies to navigate challenging conversations with confidence and clarity. We will discuss tools and techniques to build trust and rapport even in difficult situations, communicate assertively without being aggressive, resolve conflicts peacefully and productively, and handle difficult emotions with empathy and understanding. This program will help managers, members of teams, or anyone dealing with personal challenges to improve communication and foster positive relationships.
Millions of people — including lawyers, legal professionals, law firm leaders, and law students — secretly worry they’re not as smart or talented as other people “think” they are. It’s called impostor syndrome and it impacts both individuals and organizations.
Left unchecked, it can lead to costly consequences not only for individuals but for their organizations as well. Fortunately, there is a solution.
In this session, you’ll discover what impostor syndrome is and who’s most susceptible. As importantly, you’ll walk away with practical, immediately usable tools to help yourself and/or the people you lead, manage, mentor, teach, or parent.
Leading teams and organizations can be rewarding, but can also provide challenges in balancing work obligations with life, outside interests, and other responsibilities. Modeling proper boundary setting, and encouraging and respecting the same of your team, is one key to maintaining a productive and engaged culture at work. This practice is also imperative in order for attorneys to comply with their ethical obligations with respect to clients. How can you set boundaries to protect yourself and your mental health? How can you learn to better appreciate, understand, and respect others’ boundaries? And, importantly, why is it crucial to do both? Participants will talk in small groups about the challenges they encounter with setting and respecting boundaries, and then will return to the larger group to debrief strategies all participants can employ to create healthier, more productive, teams.
* This program has been approved by the MO Bar for Ethics CLE credit.
Managers of people need to be able to think strategically, manage deadlines, and juggle a lot. We start these sessions with an internal leader articulating the overall organizational strategy. Once the big picture is drawn for everyone, we will offer some tips and tools for thinking and planning strategically before giving each person in the room some quiet time to identify their personal and team strategy for helping further the organization’s overall objectives. After a full-room debrief, where your people learn from each other, we’ll talk through how to identify opportunities, assign tasks according to the skillsets of the team’s contributors, and develop plans for the individual contributors to achieve individual and team goals. By the end of the session, each participant should have a draft of a strategic plan that aligns individual contributors’ skills to the team’s role in meeting the organization’s strategy.
In this session, each participant will take a brief motivational needs assessment. We will use science and data to show that people are motivated by different things, how to recognize others’ motivational needs, and what specific actions your people can take to appeal to the motivational needs of others. The session will include a discussion around creating psychological safety, as well as information about how to manage down, peer-to-peer and up in order to meet team goals and objectives. Participants will leave the session with strategies for recognizing and meeting their own motivational needs and the needs of colleagues.
Professional Skills
In this session, we walk through “a day in the life of a junior associate.” From relationships to email management, from receiving assignments effectively to delivering excellent work every single time, from making the most of every interaction to building lasting relationships, from administrative tasks, navigating firm dynamics and how to always stop-and-think before reacting to building trust in small moments that lead to a career full of possibilities. Relying on the work of Brene Brown in “Dare to Lead,” this session breaks down the specific behaviors that relay reliability, accountability and integrity from day one.
Developing emotional intelligence leads to better collaboration, advanced interpersonal relationships, and improved communication. In this session, we will cover the five components of emotional intelligence, as articulated by Daniel Goleman in his NY Times bestseller “Emotional Intelligence.” In breakout groups, participants will confront a hypo (one that we create together) about working with someone with low EQ and discuss strategies for managing the situation. We’ll also use some time to rank our own emotional intelligence in each of the five categories and talk through strategies for improving and delivering higher EQ. Your people will leave the session with a deeper understanding of the role of emotional intelligence in professional success and practical tips for recognizing and managing low EQ in themselves and others.
First impressions are high stakes in the legal industry! In this session, we equip new lawyers with the foundational skills to project confidence, competence, and professionalism from their first interactions, setting them up for success in their legal careers. In the first half of the session, we’ll break down the building blocks of making a good first impression as a junior lawyer. In the second half of the session, we will focus on executive presence and the specific actions and behaviors that project confidence and competence. In breakout sessions, participants will work through scenarios and create action plans for how they’ll present their best selves in each interaction.
In these sessions, we not only share best practices for giving and receiving feedback, but we also seek to shift mindsets around feedback, reshaping its purpose to drive performance and engagement. Depending on the target audience of the session, we will either share practical tips and strategies for preparing for and consistently delivering timely feedback with emotional intelligence or for receiving feedback with emotional intelligence and turning it into action (or both!) In breakout sessions, participants will talk through the challenges they experience giving or receiving feedback. In large room debriefs, we will discuss strategies for overcoming those challenges and planning positive and constructive feedback conversations. Participants will leave the session with a new mindset around feedback and concrete skills and planning techniques for delivering and receiving timely, constructive, and positive feedback that drives performance and engagement.
Leading teams and organizations can be rewarding, but can also provide challenges in balancing work obligations with life, outside interests, and other responsibilities. Modeling proper boundary setting, and encouraging and respecting the same of your team, is one key to maintaining a productive and engaged culture at work. This practice is also imperative in order for attorneys to comply with their ethical obligations with respect to clients. How can you set boundaries to protect yourself and your mental health? How can you learn to better appreciate, understand, and respect others’ boundaries? And, importantly, why is it crucial to do both? Participants will talk in small groups about the challenges they encounter with setting and respecting boundaries, and then will return to the larger group to debrief strategies all participants can employ to create healthier, more productive, teams.
* This program has been approved by the MO Bar for Ethics CLE credit.
This fast-paced session equips junior lawyers with immediately applicable strategies to conquer the demands of law firm life. Learn practical techniques for effective time management, project organization, and confident interactions with colleagues and clients. Gain the essential skills to not just survive, but thrive, in your early legal career.
With five generations working together in the office today, misunderstanding, miscommunication, and resentment can build walls between colleagues. In this session, we will
share an overview of each generation’s unique perspectives and experiences, show where those characteristics can create frustrations and conflicts, and offer tools and resources to better empathize, understand, and reach across generations to create a more collaborative workplace. Participants will learn how cultural flashpoints can shape preferences around work styles and how to communicate, delegate, give and receive feedback and engage more effectively across generational differences.
Partners love to provide feedback to junior associates to “take ownership” of a matter, but what the heck do they mean? And if you aren’t sure, how can you clarify the expectations without appearing to lack initiative? In this session, we’ll look at how junior attorneys can make themselves stand out as reliable, trustworthy associates who everyone wants on their team. We will discuss common delegation scenarios, plus six tips you can implement in almost any assignment to ensure you are viewed as a “go to” associate at your organization.
Personal Development / Growth
Confidence is something we all struggle with. In this session, we’ll work together to define what confidence is and how it looks. We will talk through some of the things that get in the way of our confidence and how we overcome doubts in the moment. Then we’ll cover strategies for building confidence and for projecting confidence even if you’re not feeling it! Everyone will leave the session with a commitment to try at least one new strategy for building confidence or interrupting confidence busters.
Developing emotional intelligence leads to better collaboration, advanced interpersonal relationships, and improved communication. In this session, we will cover the five components of emotional intelligence, as articulated by Daniel Goleman in his NY Times bestseller “Emotional Intelligence.” In breakout groups, participants will confront a hypo (one that we create together) about working with someone with low EQ and discuss strategies for managing the situation. We’ll also use some time to rank our own emotional intelligence in each of the five categories and talk through strategies for improving and delivering higher EQ. Your people will leave the session with a deeper understanding of the role of emotional intelligence in professional success and practical tips for recognizing and managing low EQ in themselves and others.
In this session, we will share practical strategies to navigate challenging conversations with confidence and clarity. We will discuss tools and techniques to build trust and rapport even in difficult situations, communicate assertively without being aggressive, resolve conflicts peacefully and productively, and handle difficult emotions with empathy and understanding. This program will help managers, members of teams, or anyone dealing with personal challenges to improve communication and foster positive relationships.
First impressions are high stakes in the legal industry! In this session, we equip new lawyers with the foundational skills to project confidence, competence, and professionalism from their first interactions, setting them up for success in their legal careers. In the first half of the session, we’ll break down the building blocks of making a good first impression as a junior lawyer. In the second half of the session, we will focus on executive presence and the specific actions and behaviors that project confidence and competence. In breakout sessions, participants will work through scenarios and create action plans for how they’ll present their best selves in each interaction.
Millions of people — including lawyers, legal professionals, law firm leaders, and law students — secretly worry they’re not as smart or talented as other people “think” they are. It’s called impostor syndrome and it impacts both individuals and organizations.
Left unchecked, it can lead to costly consequences not only for individuals but for their organizations as well. Fortunately, there is a solution.
In this session, you’ll discover what impostor syndrome is and who’s most susceptible. As importantly, you’ll walk away with practical, immediately usable tools to help yourself and/or the people you lead, manage, mentor, teach, or parent.
Leading teams and organizations can be rewarding, but can also provide challenges in balancing work obligations with life, outside interests, and other responsibilities. Modeling proper boundary setting, and encouraging and respecting the same of your team, is one key to maintaining a productive and engaged culture at work. This practice is also imperative in order for attorneys to comply with their ethical obligations with respect to clients. How can you set boundaries to protect yourself and your mental health? How can you learn to better appreciate, understand, and respect others’ boundaries? And, importantly, why is it crucial to do both? Participants will talk in small groups about the challenges they encounter with setting and respecting boundaries, and then will return to the larger group to debrief strategies all participants can employ to create healthier, more productive, teams.
* This program has been approved by the MO Bar for Ethics CLE credit.