Leadership coaching for women attorneys who are carrying every file

Start by seeing what's actually waiting on you. We list every file and decision that lands on your desk, then sort what truly needs you from what just comes to you by habit. Next comes a weekly review rhythm and clear owners for the rest. Most attorneys find half of it never needed them.

Yes. I work with women who own and run firms, and with partners and senior attorneys leading teams inside larger firms. The pressures differ. Owners carry payroll, pricing and hiring, while partners carry influence and the path ahead. The core work is the same: your capacity, your leadership and your people.

Yes. Through RIZE for Organizations, I work with a firm's leadership group, partners or women's network, often combining one-to-one coaching with group workshops. We agree the goals with the firm at the start, and each attorney gets a confidential space to think. I put the investment in writing once we know it's a fit.

Not by working harder at self-care. Burnout in law usually comes from carrying too much for too long: every file, every fire, every evening. We look at what you're holding, take one thing off your plate by Friday, and build systems so the firm stops depending on your late nights. Small changes, kept every week, add up.

Yes, and it's one of the best tests of a healthy firm. We plan backward from the date: who covers what, which decisions can wait, and how clients are told. Then we practice letting go before you leave, with a long weekend first. The goal is a firm that runs while you're away.

Yes. I run interactive workshops for law firm leadership teams, partner groups and women attorneys' networks, on capacity, saying yes more slowly, and leading people well. Each one ends with one practical commitment per person. Workshops can stand alone or sit inside a longer RIZE for Organizations program. Tell me about your group on a Capacity Call.

Start with what the work costs you, not what you hope a client will accept. We look at where low-margin work is eating the week, what you want to charge, and the sentence you'll use when you say it. The number is yours. I help you look at it clearly and practice saying it out loud.

Pick one kind of work that shouldn't need you, and teach it properly once. We write the standard, choose who owns it, and set a weekly review so you're checking the work instead of redoing it. Training feels slow the first time. It's how you stop being the only one who can close a file.

The firm can take the whole evening if you both live inside it. We decide what counts as work talk and what is home, and where that line sits in the day. Then we practice the sentence, including with someone you love. A boundary you can repeat is kinder than a blow-up at the end of a long week.

I don't coach the legal career track, and I won't pretend the path is simple. What we work on is you: your capacity, your influence in the room, and how you ask for the work that gets you seen. The firm makes the partnership decision. We get you ready to make the case without living at your desk to prove it.

Yes. Confidentiality is agreed in writing at the start. Your partners do not hear what you say in a session. If the firm is paying, they hear the goals, themes and next steps we agree to share, not the conversation itself.

RIZE Executive Coaching is twelve private 60-minute sessions over six months, held every two weeks. Between sessions you try one change, not a pile of homework. If the week is on fire, we move the session. Busy is the reason to start, not the reason to wait.