Speaking, Training & Workshops
Our founder, Lauren Paxton, provides engaging workshops, trainings, and retreats to law firms, legal organizations, and professional associations on a range of professional development subjects. Lauren is also a professional speaker, having delivered keynotes and led programs at human resources, healthcare, and legal industry events.
Program Topics Include:
Building a Personal Brand
Business Development for Lawyers, Neuroscience-Informed Approaches
Mental Rest in Downtime Through Hobbies
Building a Meaningful & Sustainable Career
Personal Brand
For Lawyers and Law Firm Business Leaders
Personal branding has become one of Lauren's most requested workshop topics, and it is a natural fit for her background. Every professional has a personal brand, whether they are managing it or not. These interactive sessions help lawyers take ownership of how they are perceived, get clear on what makes them distinctive, and learn how to communicate it with confidence. Firms benefit when their people show up at their best.
Lauren delivers these workshops to law firms and legal organizations in formats ranging from a 90-minute introductory session to a full-day program paired with individual coaching. Each one is interactive, grounded in research, and informed by the neuroscience of how the brain forms new patterns. At least half of every session is participant driven, with guided exercises, paired practice, and small group work.
Participant takeaways:
Greater clarity on their Unique Value Proposition, and the language to begin articulating what makes them distinctive
A grounded understanding of why authenticity and purpose make a personal brand more powerful and more sustainable
A concrete sense of the highest-impact, most comfortable ways to build visibility
A personal branding worksheet with prompts, reflections, and next steps to return to after the session
Workshops can be tailored to the goals of the firm and the specific group, whether the audience is special counsel, newly elevated partners, or another cohort of professionals. For groups that want momentum to continue past the workshop, Lauren offers individual coaching that helps participants work through the quieter obstacles standing in the way of execution.
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Business Development for Lawyers: A Neuroscience Based, Results Oriented Approach
Most law firm partners know that business development matters. However, BD efforts compete with billable work, deadlines, and clear finish lines. Lauren experienced this firsthand as a law firm partner, and she found that neuroscience-informed coaching helped her work with her strengths to accelerate the growth of her practice.
This interactive workshop brings those neuroscience-based insights to lawyers in a practical, accessible way. Rather than theory, participants work through their own goals in real time and leave with a framework for a concrete business development action plan.
Participants will learn:
Why business development feels hard for lawyers, and how cognitive load, absence of deadlines, and oversized goals stall progress
How small wins, clear definitions of success, and externalizing tune attention and build momentum
How “when/then” planning, one of the most researched tools in behavioral science, turns intention into follow through
How clarity about a lawyer’s unique value proposition shifts business development from sales to service
Why making the ask feels risky, and how treating it as a conversation, with the spotlight on the client, makes it more natural
How to make business development a habit through small, repeatable steps and simple visual cues
Format: Interactive and results oriented, with a participant worksheet that guides each attendee from one chosen activity to a defined measure of success and a concrete first step. Available in person or virtually.
Mental Rest in Downtime
For lawyers, law firm leaders, and the professionals who support them
For many high performers, the hardest part of downtime is that the mind keeps working. Time away from the office is often spent thinking about the office, and hours of rumination can rival the hours billed. This program grew out of Lauren’s own experience with that mental “spin” as a law firm partner, and from the many coaching clients who face a version of the same challenge.
Drawing on research from neuroscience and behavioral science, this interactive workshop explores why rest is so elusive for high performers and offers a practical, accessible way through it, beginning with something deceptively simple: a hobby.
Participants will learn:
Why rumination is a quiet drain on recovery, and why it affects high performers most
How rumination behaves like a habit, and how it can be interrupted and replaced with a better one
The features of an ideal hobby, and how an immersive pursuit can break the rumination loop and serve as a bridge back to genuine mental rest
How visual cues and preplanning can take the friction out of transitions to rest, making restoration a realistic part of a demanding schedule
Format: Interactive and participant driven, with time for reflection and discussion. The program can be delivered as a standalone workshop or as part of a broader professional development series, and can be tailored for partners or professional development teams.