Sustaining Passion and Purpose in Your Legal Practice

For a successful and fulfilling legal career, identifying our passions and purpose is crucial, yet attaining and sustaining those with any semblance of consistency requires understanding what energizes and renews you. This interactive program, taught by Doug Leonard, a behavioral consultant, executive team coach, and former Chair of the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board, will bring a decidedly different and fresh perspective on the importance of genuinely understanding your passion and how the joy passion brings leads you to your purpose.

This course will clarify the following question: How do I shape my practice so my daily work is stimulating? Passion and purpose are predicated far more than most realize on the proper leadership and cultural environment. As a result, leaders and managers of law firms will find this section to be instrumental in answering the question: How do you ensure your firm (and your leadership) is a mechanism for helping lawyers lead the type of life they want?

This program will benefit lawyers seeking more clarity to the unconscious forces at play in your work in the legal profession.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify your genuine passions and why being able to do so is critical to your success as an attorney

2. Sort passions from proficiencies - a necessary action to achieve your true purpose - and how proficiency frequently sabotages working on our passions 

3. Pinpoint and communicate the unique work conditions that enable you to flourish and allow your passions and purpose to shine

4. Discover why your law firm leadership culture repeatedly extinguishes the flames of your passion and purpose - even if it isn't intentional

5. Connect the cause-and-effect relationship between how an absence of passion and support strips us of our motivational drive and can contribute to disciplinary action in more severe cases