Making the Leap to a New Practice Area – Recent Counsel Magazine Article Contribution
Read my latest contribution to Counsel Magazine, here, where I contribute to an Article by Jacqui Thomas KC considering practical ways in which to
Avoid Overwhelm: 6 strategies to avoid overwhelm & improve workplace wellbeing – Guest Article for LawCare
Avoid Overwhelm Check out this Guest Article written for LawCare sharing six strategies to avoid overwhelm and improve workplace wellness through a
Four strategies to successfully navigate career breaks in the legal sector – Guest Article for LawCare
Successfully Navigating Career Breaks in the Legal Sector Check out this Guest Article written for LawCare sharing four strategies to successfully
Clerking Through Career Breaks: The pivotal role of clerks in the making (or breaking!) of a barrister career break returner’s practice
Reasons to be cheerful When I hear the positive, good news stories of how returns done well, with the support of Chambers’ clerks, have reaped
Accelerate Action: Harnessing Ten Top Life Lessons for International Women’s Day 2025
International Women’s Day 2025 is all about action— taking, and accelerating, it and, consequently, making a tangible difference. The challenge
Women’s Wellness at Work Part 2: 6 additional strategies to overcome common threats to wellness focusing on mindset and confidence
This blog should be read in conjunction with Part 1, published December 2024, and contains 6 additional strategies for overcoming common threats to
Women’s Wellness at Work Part 1: Common Threats to Wellness and 6 Strategies to Overcome Them
Women’s Wellness at Work Blog Series: This 2-part blog series highlights how women’s workplace wellbeing is under threat and considers how to
Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series Part 3: Career Progression at a time that’s right for you
Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series The challenges and solutions in this blog series are around how to be a career professional and
Is fair opportunity knocking?
Read my latest article for Counsel Magazine considering practical ways to overcome the glass ceiling, sticky floor or broken rung within the legal
Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series Part 2: Career Break Return Success
Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series The challenges and solutions in this blog series are around how to be a career professional and
Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series Part 1: How to be a career professional & parent, & succeed at both
Working Parents and Career Break Returner Blog Series The challenges and solutions in this blog series are around how to be a career professional and
Difficult Conversations: Having, and Diffusing, them, whilst delivering on positive outcomes
Is Silence truly golden? When it comes to difficult conversations at work, there can be a temptation to remain ostrich like, head buried in the sand.
Workplace Wellbeing that Works…beyond the wellness tick box
Yoga, anyone? A barrister recently bemoaned the latest wellbeing initiative at her Chambers – Wednesday night yoga. So under the cosh was she with her
Lift Whilst Rising: Positive Role Models & How to Become One
Role Models v Mentors It’s a well-established fact that with positive role models or mentors, people experience improved performance and greater
Four strategies to successfully navigate career breaks in the legal sector
Article for Lawcare explaining why it’s important for both individuals and organisations in the legal sector to support those who take breaks in
Problematic People Pleasing… Finding power in the tricky two letter word “No”
Do you struggle to say no? Have you ever been stretched too thinly as a result? Can you relate to the feeling that you’ve said yes to so much that ...
Breaking the barriers to being your best through mindset, recognising your own value and harnessing the imposter within
Here’s how my new online course, launching Wed 8th May, can help you do just that Is this you? Perhaps you’re reading this feeling Stuck? Lacking in
Women in career transition: Your first 100 days and beyond
Originally written for The Law Society in 2019 Deciding to decide Time and again my amazingly competent female lawyer clients say that any minute
Coaching for Lawyers: Features and Benefits
Originally published in Barrister Magazine in January 2020 Coaching: Dispensing with the “Fix it” myth Lawyers are busy high achievers. I get it. I
Women in Law: Their Unique Challenge around Confidence
Initially written for Lawcare for International Women’s Day 2020 Concerning Statistics Speaking at the Young Magistrates Special Interest Group
Tragic lessons to learn… about life, and a death, in law
Vanessa A week ago today, an inquest pieced together the final, tragic moments of a high flying law firm equity partner and mum (article here). Her