The Leadership Academy for Emerging Leaders in Legal Organizations

An immersive experience for organizations looking to create a leadership pipeline and ensure their emerging leaders have the self-awareness, tools, and skills needed to lead with authenticity, confidence, and impact.

The Importance of Leadership Development for Lawyers

Lawyers often move into leadership roles in light of their technical excellence—not necessarily leadership capability—despite leadership requiring an entirely different skillset. Not surprisingly, challenges then emerge with confidence, delegation, time management, communication, and sustainable performance under pressure.

And there are serious consequences…

  • Reduced personal effectiveness

  • Reduced team effectiveness

  • Burnout and retention issues

Already playing a critical role in strengthening the legal profession, lawyer associations are perfectly poised to fill the leadership development gap. The most effective leadership programming both strengthens your organization’s future and creates more effective practitioners by:

  • Cultivating board and committee leaders

  • Strengthening member engagement

  • Building relationships across member organizations

  • Developing decision-makers and trailblazers

Custom Programming

Every single Leadership Academy is customized to meet the unique needs of your organization and its members. Let’s discuss your priorities and programming goals, then collaborate to design a program that checks every box. Program components to choose from include:

  • iPEC’s research-backed assessment tool (i) uncovers each participant’s default leadership style and (ii) teaches how to consciously mold their approach to strengthen effectiveness across a variety of situations.

  • Participants workshop around a key leadership topic for 60-90 minutes, reflecting on monthly wins, supporting one another via peer coaching, and setting individual goals for immediate impact.

  • Participants come together to workshop around a key leadership topic, strengthening self-awareness and related skills, receiving substantial on-the-spot professional coaching and peer coaching, and developing robust action plans with accountability in place.

  • For participants in a group program, 1-1 coaching offers added accountability, deeper mindset coaching, and more personalized goal setting for optimal, long-term results.

  • iPEC’s Energy Leadership Development System offers the leadership foundation every emerging leader needs, along with substantive segments on the eight components of highly conscious leadership. Assigning segments between live group sessions helps participants identify their biggest growth opportunities and strategies for change so the group can dive deeper together.

Exemplary Program

Florida Justice Association’s Leadership Academy: Doing Leadership Differently—From the Inside Out

Alexis Gonzalez, Managing Partner of The Law Offices of Gonzalez & Associates | FJA Leadership Academy Cohort 2 Graduate

Cohort 3 | 2026 - 2027

Cohort 2 | 2025 - 2026

Cohort 1 | 2024 - 2025

All participants leave the program with a meaningful, tangible takeaway: a capstone project on the leadership topic that impacted them the most. Following the program, participants are encouraged to present their capstones as CLE’s for bar associations or law firm team workshops.

How FJA Leadership Academy participants sum up the program in just three words:

Engaging, useful, educational

Informative, collaborative, challenging

Eye opening, cathartic, challenging

Insightful, interesting, helpful

Necessary connection moments

Strategic, clarifying, energizing

Support, like-minded, team

Helpful, optimistic, resourceful

Comforting, educational, inspiring

  • "The FJA Leadership Academy has been instrumental in my development as not only a lawyer but as a leader and person in general.

    Ryan Reif, Trial Attorney, FJA Leadership Academy Cohort 1 Graduate

  • "The entire program has made me refocus my leadership style, make more confident decisions and plan with intention.”

    Alexis Gonzalez, Managing Partner, Gonzalez Law & Associates | FJA Leadership Academy Cohort 2 Graduate

  • "She joined us that first year as our ‘kickoff’ speaker and we have invited her back every year after that."

    Priya Bathija, Founder, South Asian Bar Association’s Leadership Institute

  • "Thank you for your energy and expertise in this area. I believe this is transformational work!" (regarding their Women Advisors' Leadership Academy)

    Carmen Allen, Chief Growth & Strategy Officer, Northwestern Mutual

Let’s Work Together

If you're interested in cultivating highly effective leaders for your organization through innovative programming, tell me what you have in mind. I will get back to you shortly to schedule a time for us to discuss in more detail!