Firm Leader designs customized programs for leaders and future leaders of professional services firms. Our programs include:

For Partners in Management Roles:

  • Leading Professional Firms (for executive teams and future leaders)
  • Leading Practice Groups
  • Leading Client Teams

For Partners:

  • Leadership Development: Expanding One’s Contributions
  • Team Leadership and Matter Management
  • Collaborative Business Development
  • Client Conversations: Uncovering and Seizing Opportunities
  • Management Conversations: Intensive Feedback and Coaching Skills

For Associates on the Path to Partnership:

  • Business Development Skills: Client Service, Networking, Building Profile and Innovation (based on Sustaining Practice Styles); Personal Marketing Plans
  • Management Skills: Supervising Others and Managing Matters
  • Practice Skills: Negotiation, Effective Communication, and Time Management

For Hiring Committees:

  • Advanced Interviewing Skills in the War for Talent

We work with firms to ensure that all our development programs are practical, customized for the firm, and incorporate a management strategy for driving and measuring the desired professional development. Most of our programs have been developed using a modeling process that enables us to identify the behaviors, priorities and preoccupations of outstanding performers and leaders in order to accelerate the development of desired abilities in others. We develop and draw upon competency models, 360 degree feedback surveys, and other assessments.

To find out more about Firm Leader and our programs, please contact:

Tim Leishman, Managing Director