How to fulfill your leadership potential without burning out or compromising your values…
THE CAREER LEADERSHIP CODE:
(1) CLARITY - Clarify your values, strengths, and desires, then develop aligned professional goals.
(2) CONFIDENCE - Pursue your goals fully with a productive mindset, strategic planning, and self-advocacy.
(3) SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE - Sustain your success long-term by prioritizing yourself, your wellbeing, and your daily energy.
1:1 Custom Coaching for Lawyers & Leaders
Step 1. CAREER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
(i) Using iPEC’s one-of-a-kind Energy Leadership Index (ELI)assessment, we will explore your energy level across all areas of work and life to uncover your biggest growth opportunities and the precise factors influencing your success and fulfillment. You will also learn an insanely effective tool to shift your energy level and success on demand.
(ii) Assessing your core values will leave you with a greater sense of direction, a decision-making tool, and knowledge of current gaps in valued living we can address toenhance engagement, fulfillment, and authenticity over time.
(iii) Developing a coaching program plan based on the information uncovered from the ELI and values assessment debriefs helps us create a loose structure for our work together and a baseline to recognize progress over time.
Step 2. GOAL-FOCUSED COACHING SESSIONS
We will meet weekly or bi-weekly to address those key opportunities for growth. That being said, we can shift gears any time—this program is fully customizable based on your most pressing interests and opportunities!
Step 3. QUANTIFYING GROWTH AND POST-PROGRAM GOAL SETTING
Before we close out, you will have the opportunity to:
Reassess your energy level with another ELI assessment.
Explore all of the growth and increased self-awareness you’ve experienced.
Set post-program goals to ensure ongoing development well beyond our time together.
Who is custom coaching for?
You’re an ambitious professional in leadership or aspiring to lead, looking to manage work-related stress, enhance career fulfillment, and balance all the things life has thrown at you. You’re committed to ongoing growth and development. You are ready for change and looking for a trusted coach to offer insight and feedback, support you in the process, and hold you accountable for serious follow-through week-after-week.
Leadership Academies for Emerging Leaders
“The FJA Leadership Academy has been instrumental in my development as not only a lawyer but as a leader and person in general. The skills, techniques, and lessons that I have learned have helped tremendously in my continued growth as a trial attorney. This Leadership Academy addressed issues facing the legal profession as a whole and has promoted effective tools to help navigate the ever-changing legal field. I am immensly grateful for this amazing opportunity. ”
Everything your emerging leaders need: (i) lifetime access to innovative leadership development curriculum; (ii) personalized coaching to dig deeper and strategize implementation; (iii) energy management resources to set folks up for long-term success; and (iv) peer validation, support, and camaraderie that carries on well beyond formal programming.
Curriculum
Your emerging leaders will be working through a digital workbook with a wealth of exercises, frameworks, and resources to maximize growth during live sessions and well beyond the program. We will work together to choose either the Energy Leadership Development System (designed to maximize leadership capacity) or the COR.E Leadership Dynamics (designed to optimize performance and avoid burnout).
Live Coaching Sessions
Participants meet monthly for custom coaching sessions tied to assigned curriculum topics. This program offers the perfect amount of structure and customization.
Secret Sauce
The Leadership Academy is not just any coaching program…
The secret sauce to maximizing success—iPEC’s energy leadership framework—is embedded throughout the curriculum so that participants learn the framework and concepts, then put them into practice with an executive coach month after month to develop their own personal expertise in energy management and their ability to lead others to succeed as well.
Speaking Engagements & Corporate Retreats
“She joined us that first year as our ‘kickoff’ speaker and we have invited her back every year after that. Emily offers thoughtful insights and frames career confidence in a meaningful and approachable way. She helps our fellows (all mid-career attorneys) examine their lives, goals, and limiting beliefs. Her session gets extremely positive reviews and is the perfect way to start the 8-month leadership development program.”
“Loved your presentation - such a powerful message that I would recommend for all firms! Thank you!!”
“I have moderated/hosted many well-being presentations and they can be pretty repetitive. This one was felt so fresh and new.”
Common talk / program topics include:
The Energy Edge: Maximizing Engagement, Performance, and Success
The Career Leadership Code: Three Steps to Fulfilling Your Potential without Burning Out
Four Essential Mindset Shifts for Confident Leadership
Six Strategies for Minimizing Burnout & Maximizing Energy
Frequently Asked Questions
For how long do you typically support your clients?
Most arrangements last between three and 12 months; beyond your initial program, you may continue on a month-to-month basis. While I am flexible, I highly recommend at least six months for all clients who want to make a successful transition and/or majorly shift their general energy level; clarify what they want for their career and life; and go after their goals with a supportive partner along their side throughout the journey!
Do you use assessments?
Yes, I use a one-of-a-kind assessment to help you establish a baseline (the ONLY way to meaningfully assess your growth over time!) and personalize our work together! The assessment I use is designed to (i) help you understand your current levels of energy, confidence, productivity, and optimism in the different areas of your life; (ii) shine light on your strengths and pinpoint your biggest opportunities for growth; and (iii) teach you a powerful self-coaching tool for boosting career leadership in the moment and over time. (Learn more about iPEC’s Energy Leadership Index assessment here: https://www.energyleadership.com/assessment.)
Do you support attorneys only?
While the majority of my clients are attorneys, I serve ambitious professionals across all demanding industries who highly value personal development. Most mid-career professionals will encounter challenges with authentic leadership, work-life balance, career trajectory confusion / fulfillment, and self-doubt at some point or another!
What’s the difference between coaching and therapy?
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as the process of “partnering with Clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.“
In other words, coaching focuses on your strengths to move you forward toward future opportunities so you can reach your goals. Traditional therapy, on the other hand, is a healing modality, focuses heavily on the past, and is intended to get you to a functional place. As a coach, it is my intention to help you thrive, well beyond “functional.” Therapy also helps you manage clinical mental health diagnoses. Coaching, on the other hand, helps you manage non-clinical, yet common doubts, fears, and concerns that are holding you back by developing a specific goal every session, strategies to achieve your goal, and motivation to follow through.
The coaching work I do in particular is also primarily focused on your career. While we may touch on other areas of your life that can impact career outcomes, our work focuses on career navigation, professional development, and workplace fulfillment.
Couldn’t I just talk to an industry mentor instead of paying for coaching support?
Yes, you absolutely could! But the support you will get is very different…
Coaches don’t give advice or tell you what to do. A coach helps YOU decide what you want to do with your career and life and how you are going to make it happen, then holds you accountable to following through.
Coaches believe YOU are the expert in your life, while the coach is an expert in the process of goal achievement and building hope and optimism.
Coaching entails a series of sessions, rather than one-off meetings. Empowering you to take action session after session helps you (i) incrementally work towards your goals, (ii) build positive habits over time, and (ii) build confidence with frequent “mini wins,” all crucial to achieving long-term success.