Women’s Leadership Program
Become more influential. More visible. More fully yourself.A nine-month leadership community for accomplished women attorneys who want to expand their range, navigate the defining moments of their careers, and grow alongside women who understand the terrain.
LUMEN™
You have already built credibility. The next chapter asks something different of you.More leadership. More influence. Greater visibility. Stronger relationships. A clearer point of view. A more intentional approach to ambition, business development, and what you want your career to become.
Lumen™ creates the space, support, and community to grow into that next chapter without becoming someone you are not.
The most important years of your career should not be navigated alone.You may be preparing for partnership, stepping into a larger leadership role, building a practice, or discovering that success has brought an entirely new set of expectations.
You may want to become more influential, more visible, and more confident leading others, while also creating a career that feels increasingly like your own.
Lumen was created for what comes next.A small, carefully curated cohort. Deeply personalized development. Candid feedback. Private coaching. And a community of accomplished women who will challenge, champion, and expand one another.
There is no single way to be a powerful woman leader.
Lumen is not about teaching you to fit a prescribed model of leadership.
It is about helping you understand how you lead now, where you may be holding back, what the next stage of your career requires, and how to access more of your own range.
Through Lumen, you will explore how to lead people with greater clarity and confidence, influence across the firm, navigate promotion and career inflection points, become more visible and known for your ideas, build business authentically, and develop a relationship with ambition that leaves room for both success and fulfilment.
You do not need to become someone else to become more powerful. You need greater access to who you already are.
The cohort is not simply where Lumen happens. It is part of what makes Lumen powerful.
There are conversations about leadership, ambition, advancement, confidence, power, family, success, and uncertainty that become different when you are having them with women who genuinely understand the pressures, choices, and complexity of this stage of a career.
Lumen creates a confidential, high-calibre community where accomplished women can speak candidly, test ideas, learn from one another, and build relationships that extend well beyond the program.
No posturing. No need to have it all figured out.
Just smart, ambitious women doing meaningful developmental work together.
FAQs: Questions About Lumen
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Lumen is designed for accomplished women attorneys who are ready to invest seriously in their continued growth, including senior associates, counsel, new and emerging partners, and women moving into increasingly consequential leadership roles.
You may be preparing for partnership, building or expanding a practice, stepping into greater leadership, strengthening your influence, becoming more visible in the market, navigating a transition, or reconsidering how you want to work, lead, and live.
What matters most is not your title. It is your readiness to grow.
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Lumen combines highly personalized development with the learning and connection of a carefully curated cohort.
The experience includes leadership and personality assessments with individual debriefs, confidential 360° leadership feedback, six private coaching sessions, monthly virtual cohort workshops, and an optional in-person Lumen retreat.
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Carefully selected leadership and personality assessments help you better understand how you lead, communicate, make decisions, build relationships, and respond under pressure.
Individual debriefs go beyond simply interpreting results. We translate the insights into meaningful development priorities and explore how they are showing up in your career and leadership today.
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Confidential feedback from people who experience your leadership gives you a clearer picture of where your impact is strongest, how others experience you, and which shifts could most meaningfully expand your influence.
The purpose is not evaluation. It is insight. You receive a thoughtful synthesis of the feedback and support translating it into a focused development agenda.
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Each participant receives six confidential coaching sessions devoted entirely to her own agenda.
That might mean preparing for partnership, navigating a difficult relationship, strengthening executive presence, developing business, leading associates more effectively, increasing visibility, thinking through a significant career decision, or addressing something entirely different.
The coaching is intentionally individualized because the leadership edge for one woman may be very different from the leadership edge for another.
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The workshops are designed around the real leadership and career questions accomplished women attorneys are navigating.
Topics may include influence and organizational dynamics, executive presence, leading and developing others, partnership, sponsorship, thought leadership, visibility, business development, conflict, boundaries, resilience, power, fulfilment, and navigating career inflection points.
The curriculum creates structure, while leaving room for the conversations and issues that emerge from the cohort itself.
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Yes, but not by asking every woman to adopt the same approach.
We explore how to build relationships, develop a distinctive professional voice, become known for your thinking, expand your network, and approach business development in ways that align with your personality, strengths, and the kind of practice you want to build.
The goal is not simply to become better at “selling.” It is to find ways of developing business that feel credible, sustainable, and genuinely your own.
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No. For some participants, partnership may be an immediate goal. For others, the work may be about becoming a stronger partner, building a practice, leading a team, developing greater influence, navigating a transition, or deciding what they want the next chapter of their career to look like.
The goal is not simply advancement. It is greater choice, influence, and freedom in how you lead your career.
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While every participant will have her own development priorities, Lumen is designed to strengthen leadership range and self-awareness, confidence navigating influence and visibility, capacity to lead people and teams, professional voice and point of view, business development capability, and understanding of how others experience your leadership.
Just as importantly, participants have the opportunity to become more deliberate about what success means to them and to build lasting relationships with accomplished women navigating many of the same questions.
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The cohort comes together for an immersive experience designed to deepen relationships, accelerate development, and create the kind of space for reflection and conversation that is difficult to find within the pace and pressure of daily practice.
The retreat is optional depending on each participant's ability and availability to travel. Travel, accommodation, and meals are additional.
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Confidentiality is fundamental to the experience.
The value of Lumen depends upon participants being able to speak candidly about leadership challenges, career questions, firm dynamics, relationships, aspirations, and uncertainty. Clear expectations around confidentiality are established from the beginning so the cohort can become a genuinely trusted space.
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Lumen is intentionally small and carefully curated.
The purpose is to create enough diversity of experience and perspective to make the conversations rich, while keeping the group intimate enough for participants to know one another, speak candidly, and build meaningful relationships over the nine months.
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Lumen is designed around both individual development and the quality of the community, so cohort composition matters.
We look for accomplished women who are thoughtful about their own development, willing to contribute generously to the learning of others, and interested in being part of a candid, substantive community rather than simply attending another leadership program.
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Both. Lumen is available through carefully curated cross-firm cohorts, bringing together women from different firms, as well as through private firm cohorts created for organizations wanting to invest in a group of their own women attorneys.
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Yes. Firms can sponsor individual attorneys to participate in a cross-firm Lumen cohort or explore creating a private Lumen cohort for their organization.
The individual coaching and developmental work remain focused on the participant, while the overall experience helps firms invest meaningfully in women whose leadership will increasingly influence clients, teams, culture, and the future of the organization.
For firms investing in the women who will shape what comes next.
Lumen gives firms a substantive way to invest in accomplished women whose leadership will increasingly influence clients, teams, culture, and the future of the organization.
A more powerful way to lead. A more meaningful way to succeed.
Lumen is available to individual attorneys through a carefully curated cross-firm cohort, or to firms through a private cohort designed for their own women leaders.
If you are curious about whether Lumen is the right fit for you, someone in your firm, or your organization, we would be glad to start the conversation.