FOCUSED SUPPORT FOR THE WORK OF LEADERSHIP
Executive Coaching for Law Firm Partners & Lawyer Leaders
Step back, think clearly, and lead with greater intention. Individual coaching for partners and lawyer leaders who want to lead their teams and practices more effectively.
SPACE TO THINK. SUPPORT TO ACT.
Work on how you lead,
while leading real work.
LeadWise Group provides executive coaching for law firm partners and lawyer leaders who want to strengthen their leadership, manage people more effectively, or navigate a demanding transition. Coaching focuses on the individual’s goals and the real situations affecting their team, practice, or leadership role.
A coaching engagement creates focused time to examine patterns, consider different perspectives, and choose a useful next step. Between conversations, leaders apply what they are learning; subsequent sessions offer space to reflect, adjust, and follow through.
WHO WE COACH
Support for the responsibilities
that come with partnership.
01
Partners & counsel
Strengthen how you lead associates, manage a practice, and make strategic choices. Work through delegation, feedback, difficult conversations, or the shift from personal delivery to developing others.
02
Practice group & office leaders
Lead peers, align competing priorities, and turn plans into action. Build commitment while balancing leadership responsibilities with your own client work.
03
Firm leaders & committee leaders
Navigate decisions with broader consequences for the firm. Strengthen influence, manage stakeholder relationships, and develop a deliberate approach to leading change.
04
New, lateral & advancing partners
Clarify expectations in a new role, develop key internal relationships, or prepare for greater responsibility. Coaching can support non-equity partners approaching the next stage of partnership.
WHAT COACHING CAN ADDRESS
Lead the practice.
Develop the people behind it.
Coaching starts with the leadership situations you face now. We agree the priorities that would make a meaningful difference for you, your team, and your practice.
Delegate & develop associates
Clarify the work, provide the right support, and give useful feedback. Examine when you take work back, fix problems yourself, or miss opportunities to develop the people around you.
Lead a team or practice
Build clarity, accountability, and more effective working relationships. Work through workload conversations, team performance concerns, or recurring friction in how matters are managed.
Lead peers & influence decisions
Navigate partnership dynamics, competing interests, and difficult conversations. Consider how to build commitment when formal authority alone is not enough.
Make room for strategic leadership
Balance client responsibilities with leadership demands. Prioritize the decisions and relationships that need your attention, and turn practice priorities into practical action.
Navigate partnership transitions
Prepare for promotion, equity consideration, a lateral move, or a new leadership role. Examine what needs to change in your approach as your responsibilities expand.
Understand your leadership impact
Explore how your communication, assumptions, strengths, and reactions affect colleagues. Use reflection and, where useful, assessments or feedback to identify useful changes.
HOW AN ENGAGEMENT WORKS
Clear goals.
Practical work between conversations.
The scope, meeting rhythm, and duration are agreed around the leader’s needs and the engagement’s objectives.
Clarify the goals
Discuss the leader’s responsibilities, current challenges, and desired changes. Agree the focus, what progress would look like, and the roles of the leader, coach, and any firm sponsor.
Reflect, practice & apply
Use coaching conversations to examine real situations, test assumptions, and develop practical next steps. Apply new approaches in daily work, then return to what happened and what to adjust.
Review progress
Revisit goals and examples of changed behavior. Depending on the engagement, progress reviews may draw on the leader’s reflections, agreed stakeholder feedback, or observable changes in how work gets done.
DESIGNED AROUND THE INDIVIDUAL
Personal development.
Relevant to the firm.
Align expectations at the outset.
For firm-sponsored coaching, establish the development goals, how the firm will be involved, and what information will be shared in progress reviews. Confidentiality expectations and any limits should be clear to the coach, participant, and sponsor before the work begins.
Use assessments and feedback when useful.
DiSC, 360 feedback, or other assessments can provide another perspective on leadership style and impact. They are tools to support the coaching goals, rather than a required starting point for every engagement.
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Choose the right combination of support.
Individual coaching can stand alone or reinforce a broader development program. Training is useful for building defined skills across a group; coaching helps an individual apply learning to their own goals, circumstances, and challenges.
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COACHING IN A LAW FIRM CONTEXT
Understand the individual.
Understand the environment.
Law firm leaders balance client demands, professional standards, partnership dynamics, and responsibility for other people’s work. Our coaching addresses leadership within that context.
LeadWise founder Yuliya LaRoe, JD, MBA, PCC, brings a legal background and professional coaching credentials to this work. Meet our team and learn about our experience ↗
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A LEADERSHIP COACHING EXAMPLE
From doing the work to leading the team.
Our existing leadership coaching case study describes an AmLaw 100 partner’s work on delegation, clearer expectations, and how she managed her team and practice.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Considering coaching for a partner
or lawyer leader?
What does executive coaching for law firm partners focus on?
It focuses on how a partner leads people, manages a practice, makes decisions, and influences others. The work is tailored to the individual: for example, delegating more effectively, addressing team performance, leading peers, or navigating a transition.
Is coaching useful for experienced partners as well as new partners?
Yes. New partners may be establishing their approach to supervising others and building a practice. Experienced partners may be taking on broader leadership, changing how their teams work, or examining habits that no longer serve their responsibilities.
Can coaching support practice group or office leaders?
Yes. Coaching can address the shift from managing your own work to leading colleagues, aligning priorities, facilitating decisions, and supporting execution across a group or office.
How is executive coaching different from business development coaching?
Executive coaching centers on leadership effectiveness, people management, strategic priorities, and execution. Business development coaching centers on building a practice through relationships, visibility, opportunities, and consistent action. We can discuss a combination when the goals overlap.
How are confidentiality and firm sponsorship handled?
The participant, coach, and any firm sponsor should agree the goals, confidentiality expectations and limits, and what will be shared before the engagement begins. Sponsor involvement and progress reporting are clarified as part of that agreement.
How long does coaching last, and how is progress reviewed?
The duration and meeting rhythm depend on the goals and support needed. We agree these at the outset and review progress using practical examples of changed behavior, reflection, and any feedback or measures agreed for the engagement.
LET’S DISCUSS THE WORK AHEAD
What would help you lead
your practice more effectively?
Tell us about the role, the challenges, and what you want to accomplish. We’ll explore whether coaching is the right fit and what useful support could look like.