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Supporting leaders and leadership teams to thrive in transformation
Speaking for Impact in Legal Leadership
Each talk is grounded in cutting-edge research and shaped by over 18 years of hands-on experience — combining psychological insight with strategic clarity to engage the audience.
Strategic Questions That Shape My Keynotes
culture that supports their transformation
strategy?
– How can leaders enable people and teams to
adapt, perform, and thrive in transformation?
– What tools support leaders in responding
skillfully to adaptive challenges during
transformation?
– How can leaders prepare themselves to lead
transformation with focus, foresight, and
flexibility?
Current keynotes topics
Leading Transformation in Law Firms:
A Roadmap to Unlock Performance Across The Firm
Today, leaders in the legal arena are facing multiple challenges, from rapid developments in generative AI and digital transformation, to shifts in business models, rising client demands, and changing expectations from employees. Their ability to successfully transform their organizations in response to these pressures is key to their firm’s future success. How can leaders enable people and teams across the firm to fully leverage their potential, collaborate effectively, innovate, and respond adaptively to the new requirements of a changing environment?
Based on insights from my book Leading Transformation in Law Firms, this keynote offers practical, research-backed tools to unlock human performance across the firm – to win the future.
Whether it’s excitement, optimism, confidence, disappointment, frustration, “resistance”, or anxiety – emotions are an integral part of any significant change.
Do you know how to foster positive emotions in people and teams? How do you support them in navigating difficult ones? And how well do you manage your own emotions to role-model the behavior you want to strengthen in others?
Based on insights from my book Leading Transformation in Law Firms, this keynote offers practical, research-backed perspectives on how to work with emotions as a powerful lever for successful transformation.
High on Emotions? Leveraging Psychological Intelligence to Lead Transformation Effectively
Trust in the Age of AI: Why You Need It – and How You Build It
Trust is no longer soft. It’s strategic.
As technology reshapes how we work, trust becomes a key accelerator of change. It drives collaboration, fosters innovation, strengthens client relationships, and it supports effective transformation – especially when implementing AI.
This keynote explores how to build, repair, and sustain trust across teams and entire organizations.
Successful transformation requires more than strategy and technology: Culture is the lever.
A strong, adaptive culture is the secret sauce. It enables people and teams to respond to change quickly, flexibly, and effectively – to collaborate, innovate and thrive amid the complex challenges that any transformation brings.
Based on insights from my book Leading Transformation in Law Firms, this keynote offers a clear, actionable roadmap for navigating the cultural dimension of transformation. It sheds light on how to strengthen a future-ready culture that aligns with your strategy and drives transformation success – across all levels of the organization.
Mastering Culture Transformation: A Roadmap
Leading Transformation: Behaviors, Skills, and Mindsets to Succeed
It’s not secret: Leaders are the linchpin of successful transformation.
Their actions signal what matters and how others should behave to make the transformation happen. To lead effectively, leaders must embody the very behaviors and mindsets they expect from others.
Drawing on insights from my book Leading Transformation in Law Firms, this keynote unpacks the critical behaviors, skills, and mindsets required to successfully unlock performance in transformation.
Change doesn’t happen by chance — or command.
Why do transformation efforts so often fall short? Because behavior and mindset don’t shift at the push of a button.
This keynote dives into the psychology of sustainable change and introduces tools to support behavior and mindset shifts — in others and in yourself.
Enabling Behavior and Mindset Change in Times of Transformation
From the Inside Out: Why Transformation Always Starts With You
Leadership is always under the microscope, especially during transformation.
Your behavior as a leader signals what truly matters – and what doesn’t.
This keynote explores how your behavior, mindset, and self-leadership shape what others See, feel, and do in critical moments. Learn how to model clarity and focus when stakes are high.
Your leadership is tested most when it matters most.
Complexity, ambiguity, and time pressure challenge even seasoned leaders.
Your behavior is closely watched and interpreted, especially during transformations. How do you respond internally in order to role-model the behavior you want to See in others? How skilled are you at influencing your own thoughts, emotions, and actions in a way that supports the behaviors, mindsets, and culture you want to build for successful transformation?
This keynote offers practical tools to help you regulate your behavior and emotions in real time, helping you to stay calm, focused, and effective under pressure.
