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3 Ways To Work With Louise

The only mediation and advisory program in Australia for barristers, senior lawyers and law firms, built by a barrister who has practised, litigated and mediated inside the profession.

Start with the situation you're facing. 

The Professional Advantage™ is applied differently depending on the challenge you're facing. Choose the option that best matches your situation.

Mediation

Resolve legal and workplace disputes where relationships, outcomes and risk matter. The Professional Advantage™ helps people prepare, perform and lead differently under pressure, making productive conversations and resolution more likely.

High Performance Lawyers™

Specialist high-performance advisory for barristers and senior lawyers who want to become high-performing lawyers.

Work directly with Louise to deliberately develop how you operate beyond your legal expertise, so you perform at a higher level in practice and leadership, strengthen your judgment and influence, and build the reputation and practice you want.

Everything is tailored to you, your practice and where you want to go, with a clear roadmap, strategies for your specific situation and direct access to Louise between sessions to pressure-test decisions, get perspective when you need it and take the next right action sooner.

Consulting Partner

From one focused session right through to a fractional leadership, team advisory, and consulting engagement for individuals, firms, and organisations to get real-time help with their toughest challenges, with practical implementation and ongoing strategic support to solve them.

 

Different challenges.

THE ONE PROFESSIONAL ADVANTAGE™

Legal expertise is expected. How you operate is your advantage.

ELEVATE™

Success, technical skills and experience don't automatically make you a high performer. Develop what legal expertise can't give you: know who you are without continually having to prove yourself, think beyond the law and make decisions like a high performer, and read yourself, others and the room so you can influence skilfully.

Performance Identity™ · Professional Judgment™ · Strategic Influence™

OWN YOUR ADVANTAGE™

The profession's expectations drive success, at a cost. Know what gets the best from you, set your own high-performance bar and choose how you behave when clients, people and pressure test it. Build the career and reputation you want without the profession deciding what success costs you.

Performance Drivers™ · Personal Bar™ · Behaviour Code™

LEADEREASE™

Title, seniority and technical expertise give you authority. They don't guarantee trust, respect or influence. Become the kind of authentic leader people trust, respect and listen to, get the best through the people you work with and build a courageous culture where people get behind change.

Leadership Signature™ · High Performance Teams™ · Change Direction™

 

BECOME A HIGH-PERFORMING LAWYER

The legal profession develops legal expertise, experience and high achievers.

High Performance Lawyers™ creates High-Performing Lawyers.

Legal expertise is expected.

How you operate sets you apart.

Because legal expertise alone won't:

  • Stop an aggressive client or counterpart changing how you operate.
  • Help you influence people who disagree with you.
  • Build a high-performing team that wants to follow you.
  • Make difficult conversations easier and more successful.
  • Protect your reputation when the pressure is on.
  • Resolve conflict when the people in the room are the problem.

Every barrister and lawyer encounters these situations.

That's the difference between a high achiever and a High-Performing Lawyer.

High achievers rely on their legal expertise, experience and intelligence to achieve the best results.

High-Performing Lawyers deliberately develop the skills for how they operate.

They operate at the standard they want to be known for, regardless of the pressure, the people or the circumstances.

That's The Professional Advantage.

Every client.

Every matter.

Every day.

Every conversation.

Every decision.

Every mediation or hearing.

 

JOIN THE WAITLIST

I work with a small number of private advisory places for barristers and senior lawyers committed to becoming High-Performing Lawyers.

Join the waitlist, and I'll contact you personally when a place becomes available.

I'll send you the full programme details, including investment and application process.

If we both think it's the right fit, we'll take the next step together.

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CONSULTING PARTNER

From ONE single strategic engagement to Leadership and High-Performance Partner.

When you're the person everyone relies on, there are very few places you can test your thinking before decisions, conversations or problems become visible and more expensive.

This is one of them.

The higher you climb, the greater the consequences and the more alone you can feel when:

  • The client relationship is costing you more than money.
  • The decision where every option carries high risk.
  • The person or behaviour everyone knows is an issue, but nobody wants to address it due to fear of...
  • The difficult conversation you keep delaying because you worry what it will "cost" if you have it (not what it will cost if you don't)

Because at this level, every decision has the potential to strengthen or weaken what you've spent years building.

  • Your reputation.
  • The trust people place in your judgment.
  • Client relationships.
  • Team and firm/business performance and profits.
  • Commercial outcomes.
  • The standards people expect from you and the teams you lead.

As your Consulting Partner, you bring your toughest challenges.

Together, we work through the real problems so you can think more clearly, pressure test for your highest-leverage decisions, and take action before manageable issues become bigger problems.

That may include (not exhaustive):

âś“ Client or stakeholder relationships where trust is starting to erode.

âś“ High-risk decisions where every option has consequences.

✓ Difficult conversations you've been avoiding with staff. 

✓ Repeated behaviour or performance issues, and you know the person needs to go, but finding reasons for them to stay. 

✓ Standards, accountability and leadership challenges that you don't know how to "fix."

✓ Conflict and relationship issues in teams that are being buried and creating more time leakage.

✓ Communication and leadership under pressure problems - not delegating, not being clear in your communication, and your teams aren't following you; they are creating more work. 

The goal isn't simply solving today's problem.

It's strengthening your judgement, leadership skills and decision-making so you're known for how you operate when the pressure is on.

Available for barristers, senior lawyers, and lawyers.

Whether you need a one-off strategic engagement or a Leadership and High-Performance Partner, I'll work alongside you to help you operate in a way that protects what you've built and positions you for your next level.

I work with a very limited number of consulting clients monthly to ensure every engagement receives the strategic thinking, challenge and support it deserves.

Contact Louise HERE

MEDIATIONS

When the legal arguments are clear, but nobody is moving.

By the time a matter reaches mediation, the legal issues are usually well understood.

What keeps matters stuck is often everything around them.

  • The client who understands the risk but cannot accept the outcome/advice.
  • The person who needs to be right more than they want resolution.
  • The fixed positions, emotion, ego and pressure driving decisions.
  • The room where everyone knows movement is needed, but nobody wants to give too much away first.

That is when the risk becomes bigger than whether the matter settles.

  • The relationship with your client.
  • The costs that continue and have to be explained.
  • The advice: will they trust you next time?
  • The way people remember how the mediation was handled - which impacts your reputation.

Effective mediation is not waiting for time, pressure or exhaustion to do its work to reach an outcome.

It is about understanding what is keeping people stuck and moving the room toward resolution through a variety of skills, including legal ones.

A barrister (non-practising), lawyer and mediator, combining litigation experience, Harvard PON training, leadership, and high-performance and Brene  Browns "Dare To Lead" advisory and consulting to lead people and processes towards resolution.

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