LEARNING DESIGN DONE RIGHT, VIRTUALLY

The fundamental definition of an effective leader has changed. What talent wants – and demands – from today’s leaders will dictate which firms end up on top. Our seminal program, Leadership Foundations, provides incoming and existing law firm leaders with the skills, tools and understanding to leverage this shift to their advantage.


Elevating Your Leadership Game: What You Will Learn

This fully virtual program teaches leaders to elevate their performance, motivate talent, engage clients and positively impact firm culture and growth without sacrificing days out of the office. As a learner, you will develop:

  • The self-awareness and savvy to be more effective leaders

  • The skills to cultivate culture, deliberately and intentionally, in a hybrid work environment

  • Techniques to ignite and motivate change in others and the firm

  • Proven ways to identify and manage conflict

  • Approaches to create a high-impact vision and motivate change

  • The tools to establish goals and solve problems creatively and collaboratively

“It has been surprisingly impactful just spending time thinking about leadership and how best to lead. Without dedicated time to do that, I would just continue doing the things I do.”
— Current leader, AmLaw 200 firm

Relevant, Timely and Practical: The Program Experience

The program kicks off with an orientation during which leaders will learn about and discuss the dynamic changes across the legal industry and the impact these have on the future of law firms, their clients and their talent.

This comprehensive program includes:

  • Live Virtual Sessions: Six virtual 90-minute instructor-led segments with collaborative group discussions, interactive exercises and engaging breakouts, once per month on schedule
  • Collaborative Learning Teams: Small groups of 3 to 4 learners sharing experiences and preparing for subsequent sessions through assignments, self-directed schedule by team members
  • Individual Application Assignments: Short exercises and self-reflection activities that draw on real-life situations to improve self-awareness in everyday life, completed individually when most convenient for you
  • Capstone: An independent project drawing on the full course to establish a concrete action plan for change, done in collaboration with learning teams throughout the program


Tapping Your Leadership Potential: Who Should Attend

Incoming and existing:

  • Practice group leaders

  • Sub-group leaders

  • Department chairs

  • Office managing partners

  • Executive committee members

  • Committee chairs

Making an Impact: What You and Your Firm Can Expect

“Marcie is the best in the business. She is not a starry-eyed idealist on law firm leadership but offers a pragmatic and evidence-based approach that improves the quality of decision-making among law firm leaders. Her technical skills and deep understanding of the legal industry make her a valued and trusted consultant.”
— Mark Morgan, Partner and Co-chair of Litigation, Day Pitney

Law firm clients and learners report tangible benefits from the Leadership Foundations program, including:

  • Increased engagement from team members

  • More confidence and less signs of burnout

  • Improved interpersonal skills and understanding

  • A greater capacity for developing others and effectively handling conflict

  • More buy-in and commitment to improvements in culture and at the firm

  • Enhanced connections with colleagues that lead to new business generation, greater client satisfaction and collaborative efforts

Cultivating Leaders, Leading Transformation: Meet the Faculty

MARCIE BORGAL SHUNK

A lifelong passion for research. An insatiable curiosity. Over 20 years advising law firms. Addicted to results. Puzzle-solver. People-motivator. Fast thinker. Vision-maker. For over two decades Marcie Borgal Shunk has shepherded law firms through significant transformation. As President and Founder of The Tilt Institute, she has helped thousands of leaders harness the transformative power of talent, culture and leadership. She is the creator of the seminal program, Leadership Foundations – a high-impact, virtual interactive development program designed to offer essential leadership skills and practical solutions firms can implement immediately.

Marcie is proud to hold two fellowships, four certifications in culture and coaching, and several board advisory positions. She’s a frequent contributor to The American Lawyer, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Law, and speaks regularly about leadership, culture and legal trends. Marcie has a sociology degree from Harvard.