The Presumption of Resilience – and How to Enhance Yours
Article for Counsel Magazine, published September 2023 An 8 minute read on the trials and tribulations of advancing your career in law; from pupillage to the bar and beyond, along …
Life Balance and How to Achieve It… through mindset, prioritisation and boundaries
A 6 minute read on the pressures of working in the legal profession, especially post-pandemic, where we seem to have enabled the encroachment of work into our personal lives even …
Time Ownership: Four tips for success
A 2.5 minute read about effective time ownership Many of us living and working through the Covid 19 pandemic are also waking up to the fact that we are no …
Why Female Barristers are Leaving the Profession
Difficulty of balancing work and family life forces out growing numbers mid-career. Nikki Alderson decided to set up a coaching business focused on helping female lawyers achieve their potential. “The …
Coaching Female Lawyers: Women Being Women
Old School Senior Female Lawyer Role Models International Women’s Day has doubtless caused many a working woman to reflect on their experiences to date. As a senior Rape and Serious …
The Beast from the East…Tamed: Turning challenging Snow Days into Business as Usual Productivity
Understanding Urgent/ Important As we enter the grip of Day 3 of The Beast from the East, as a working parent, I totally understand the competing emotions of enforced time …
The GROW Coaching Model: Goals; Reality; Options; Will/ Way Forward
Golden Acre Park, Leeds Crunching through the reddy-brown autumn leaves in Yorkshire’s Golden Acre Park today whilst my youngest delightedly scooted through muddy puddles, we came across a freshly dug …