Services for law firms and legal departments:
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Untangle Strategy Session
We start with a conversation to work through challenges and opportunities on your desk and discuss the best next steps.
We've all seen "solutions" to talent problems fail - often because leaders rushed to action without defining the problem they were solving for.
That's why we start by "untangling" - a design-thinking, coaching-inspired strategy session.
• Accurately define the challenge or opportunity
• Identify possible actions
• Map them to your institutional culture and resources
• Plan action
My network is broad, and if I am not the person to help you, I can almost certainly make a referral.
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360 Assessments & Leadership Coaching
As a senior leader, candid and qualitative information on how colleagues are feeling and thinking about you and your firm is hard to obtain and harder still to hear and process.
I provide situationally aware 360s and follow-up coaching address this, creating capacity for honest self-reflection.
• Candid, qualitative, and appropriately processed information
• Highly discreet, sensitive and situationally aware of firm/departmental dynamics
• Bias-aware, "feedback as information" approach
• Deep law firm management and practice experience
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Learning Curriculum Optimization
I design and help you execute a tailored process for understanding, documenting and optimizing your firm or legal department’s learning know-how.
• Map curriculum to identify gaps, overlap and redundancies
• Design of sustainable content management processes
• Help assessing and selecting a learning management system and designing LMS staffing and governance
• Cut through the overwhelm with the help of a highly experienced, but external, advisor
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Cohort Program Design & Delivery
Stars are made, not born. Well-implemented sponsorship, mentorship, and cohort-building programs are a scalable way to give talent access to information, relationships and experiences critical to advancement.
Often the only barrier to implementing one of these powerful programs is capacity to stand it up. I can help with that.
• Define and articulate program objectives
• Program design and implementation plan that takes into account who, when, and how
• Day to day program management as needed, until you are off the ground
Untangle Strategy Session
It starts with a conversation — a deep dive collaborative process to work through current challenges and opportunities on your desk and determine the best path forward. We’ll wrap our heads around what we are facing and begin to untangle existing assets and opportunities, as well as gaps that need to be filled. This process will illuminate necessary next steps, whether that includes working together or a referral.
360 Assessments & Leadership Coaching
360 Assessments
Like it or not, achieving professional and personal objectives depends significantly on how others perceive and experience us. Likewise, institutional objectives depend on how our talent perceives and experiences leaders and colleagues.
Untangle bespoke 360 assessments are a discreet, efficient and highly sensitive way for individual leaders or leadership groups to access candid, qualitative, and appropriately processed information on how colleagues are feeling and thinking. Paired with executive coaching, 360s are a powerful tool for aligning your people's perceptions with your intentions.
Leadership Coaching
Leadership’s time and attention are at capacity between practicing, managing the business, and developing others. An executive coach intimate with the realities of a leader’s environment can guide them in finding or creating capacity for strategic thinking about professional and personal objectives.
Executive coaching time is a vantage for viewing opportunities, solutions and blindspots that only the executive is equipped to identify. Beyond issue spotting, in coaching, we co-create a plan for addressing insights and accountability for commitments. As an ICF-accredited coach with deep law firm and lawyer career lifecycle experience, Lauren partners with individual leaders and leadership groups to do this work.
Curriculum Optimization
Whether beloved or not, your firm's or practice group's training curriculum most likely grew organically over the course of decades. How much more ROI on lawyer time could you capture if you just had the time to assess your curriculum holistically in light of your practice today? This problem has become far more acute in the last two years as AI training has entered the chat — bringing an additional level of complexity to what lawyers need to learn.
Leveraging her experience implementing and optimizing lawyer learning curricula at firms recognized as global leaders in this area, Lauren guides learning and development professionals through a process of understanding, documenting and optimizing their learning know-how to fill gaps, eliminate redundancy, and produce optimal and effective programs. Lauren has particular expertise and is a speaker on the topic of optimizing global learning programs, and has expertise with Learning Management System (LMS) Implementation.
Cohort Program Design & Delivery
As contemporary talent development professionals, we know that stars are made, not born. We also appreciate the importance of intentionally allocating access to relationships and experiences critical to advancement in our unique institutional cultures.
Tailored and well-implemented sponsorship, mentorship, and cohort-building programs are a scalable way to deliver on this. Drawing on her experience designing and implementing talent pipeline programs in varied institutional cultures, Lauren partners with development leaders to design and manage this critical relationship infrastructure.