Law Firms & Associations
Your attorneys are technically brilliant. Helping them lead, build their book, and avoid burnout is where I can help.
The skills that make your associates, counsel, and partners exceptional lawyers, such as rigor, technical mastery, and precision, are not the same skills that make them effective leaders, rainmakers, and sustainable contributors to your firm’s future. Without the right support, that gap creates real risk to your pipeline and bottom line.
You know the landscape: senior associates and new partners who bill brilliantly but struggle to delegate, give feedback, and develop juniors and mid-levels. Partners navigating origination pressure and generational differences they were never trained to lead across. High performers leave for in-house roles, other firms, or other professions entirely. What you need is a partner who can deliver meaningful change without adding to your plate.
I spent 24 years inside top Wall Street and Fortune 100 institutions, including Sullivan & Cromwell, American Express, Citi, and State Street, as a corporate lawyer and executive leader before becoming an ICF PCC-credentialed coach. I know what it’s like to operate on minimal sleep, navigate billable pressure and firm politics, and still not know where you stand, all while ensuring you don’t make a mistake. And from my years in-house, I know what clients actually look for when they hire and build relationships with outside counsel. That dual perspective is why Am Law 100 firms trust me with their senior associates, partners, and highest-potential talent, and invite me back.
Services
I work with firms on business development, leadership, outplacement, and wellbeing. Common areas of focus are helping your attorneys:
- Originate, cross-sell, and build client relationships with confidence
- Delegate strategically, give feedback that lands, manage across generations, and lead with emotional intelligence
- Transition into their next role with clarity and ease
- Self-regulate and manage their time and energy for sustainable performance
Coaching engagements for firms investing in individual attorneys at critical inflection points, such as: stepping into new or lateral partner roles, building a book or integrating into a practice, leading and delegating more effectively, navigating career transitions, and managing time and energy. Engagements are confidential, built around the attorney’s goals in alignment with the firm’s, and may include:
- Goal alignment and high-level progress check-ins
- 1:1 coaching sessions
- Psychometric assessments (EQ-i 2.0)
- Sponsor check-ins
- Interview-style 360 feedback
Interactive, practical, and designed to enable your attorneys to gain techniques they can apply immediately to manage themselves, their time, and their relationships. Customized to meet your firm’s specific goals and the needs of your participants, and delivered in-person or virtually from 45 minutes to full-day retreats. Topics span Leadership, Business Development, Wellbeing, and Engagement.
I partner with organizations and other coaches to design, facilitate, and deliver leadership programs spanning 4-12 months. These programs are built around your firm’s specific leadership development focus, culture, and goals. They can include: 1:1 and small group coaching, workshops, and psychometric assessments (EQ-i 2.0).
- Partner business development programs. Coached and facilitated for a global law firm’s partner BD program: curriculum input, group kickoffs and closeouts, 1:1 partner coaching, and BD tracking.
- Partner leadership programs. Co-delivered a partner leadership program serving practice group and marketing leaders, co-presenting group sessions and providing 1:1 coaching.
- High-potential and cohort-based leadership programs. Coached and facilitated for Google’s Early Pathways to Leadership Program (three global cohorts, ~450 participants), and for the Hispanic National Bar Association’s inaugural ELLA Leadership Program for mid-career Latina attorneys (4.7/5 evaluation, 100% recommendation rate).
Trusted by Leading Organizations






My Approach
Most coaching and training for lawyers focuses on skills alone, such as feedback frameworks, BD templates, and delegation training. I focus on both skills, and the self-regulation that lets attorneys use them under pressure. Because the internal patterns driving stress reactivity, perfectionism, and overthinking can undermine even the best-trained skills. The result: attorneys who can actually perform when it counts.
SOS Framework™
Stabilize — Risk Mitigation
Dissolve the noise. The anxiety, doubt, and stress reactivity that silently distorts attorney judgment and creates execution risk. Because even a technically sound strategy won’t land if an attorney is operating from fear or avoidance.
Optimize — Internal Edge
Eliminate the internal push/pull. The beliefs, patterns, and self-doubt that make attorneys compete against their own interests. When your attorneys stop working against themselves, energy consolidates, presence sharpens, and decisions accelerate. Self-alignment isn’t soft. It’s a competitive advantage.
Strategize — External Execution
Convert internal clarity into precise, real-world execution. Scripts, sequencing, stakeholder strategy, role play, timing, messaging, and other concrete tools for the moments that matter: difficult conversations with partners or clients, BD outreach, feedback that lands, pitches to decision-makers.
LEGAL ASSOCIATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS
I partner with bar associations, affinity groups, and legal member organizations to design and deliver leadership programs, CLE content, coaching, and workshops that serve their members. One Example:
HNBA ELLA Leadership Program. Served as one of three coaches and facilitators for the Hispanic National Bar Association’s inaugural ELLA Leadership Program, a six-month program for mid-career Latina attorneys across firms, in-house, and government. Outcomes: 4.7/5 evaluation, 100% recommendation rate, promotions, and advancement into leadership positions.
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What sets my work apart is the combination of four things:
- Led by Lived Experience. 24 years of lived experience inside global, complex, matrixed firms and in-house legal departments, so your attorneys feel supported by someone who gets their world and can meet them where they are.
- Trusted by Leading Firms. Trusted and invited back by premier firms and organizations, including Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Lowenstein Sandler, Snell & Wilmer, ACC, HNBA, and NYCBA.
- Driven by a Proprietary Framework. An approach that goes beyond skills to address the deeper mindset and internal patterns, so that your lawyers can self-regulate and actually apply those skills under pressure.
- Proven by Results. Consistent feedback that the work is practical, immediately implementable, and produces lasting change.
Executive coaching, leadership programs, and retreats are typically for more senior attorneys and partners. Workshops usually have participants across roles and offices. See the Services section above for more details.
Trust is foundational to the coaching relationship, both with the firm sponsor and the attorney being coached. Before we begin the engagement, we will align on confidentiality parameters among all relevant parties, so that everyone is clear on what is shared and what stays confidential.
