The Unstuck Lawyer®
when one of those days is every day
Coaching law firm owners & partners to help them lead proactively instead of reactively & take time off & switch off
Specialist executive coaching for law firm owners and managing partners to help:
- Reduce interruptions, other people’s agendas coming first, and set stronger boundaries
- Reduce procrastination and action business development, staff development, and marketing projects that keep being put off
- Develop self-sustaining, proactive, and motivated teams
- Tackle the inner critic, procrastination, perfectionism, imposter phenomenon, and unhelpful self-pressure
- Improved speed of decision making and clarity
- Generate more fees within the firm through improved use of time, prioritisation, delegation, and comfort in charging clients
- Stop constant email checking, take time off, and switch off
Successful outcomes through leadership coaching includes:
Focus, Space, Proactive, Time Effective
Effective Challenging Conversations
Growth Implementation, Productivity, Profit
Team Growth, Action, & Accountability
Balance, Beliefs, Wellbeing & Time Off
Strategic & Organisational Thinking
Responsibility may sit with you. Overwhelm need not.
Creating change with greater ease and tackling:
Coaching Law Firm Owners & Senior Partners
- dealing with competing demands
- feeling more in control of diaries
- taking action on non-fee earning work
- sounding board, confidential discussions
- reduced working & associated guilt
- balance, wellbeing, taking time off
- adapting to regulatory, technological, legal changes
- handling complaints & challenging conversations
- impact of the inner critic for high achievers
- creating self-sustaining/accountable teams
- implementing support & structure
- reduced decision circling & quicker outcomes
- effective delegation & outsourcing
- strategic thinking time
Coaching New to Partnership or Head of Departments:
- dealing with instant expectations
- strengthening internal relationships & networks
- presentations, sales, meetings, with confidence
- social media, networking, rainmaking
- sounding board, idea generation
- external partnerships & teams relations
- managing competing demands on time
- delegating & supervising skills
- partnership direction, tactical thinking, adaptability
- tackling doubts and fears
- improving management & leadership skills
- creating time for firm development work
- work & life balance
- feeling in control
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
” I have worked with Simona as a momentum coach for over a year, and her support has been invaluable. What makes Simona unique is her rare combination of insight: she deeply understands the challenges of being a lawyer, partner, and business owner, yet she never imposes her own perspective unless I specifically invite it.
Instead, her real strength lies in her ability to create focus. On more than one occasion, I’ve come to her with a jumble of five or six challenges weighing heavily on me. Within just 20 minutes of her incisive questioning, I left with complete clarity: I knew what truly mattered, what could wait, and what no longer deserved my energy.
I would highly recommend Simona to law firm owners, associates aspiring to partnership, and solicitors or Counsel navigating the pressures of practice or self-employment. Her ability to cut through overwhelm and help you move forward with purpose is second to none.”
Qarrar Somji, Law Firm Founder, Witan Solicitors
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
“I started the coaching with Simona after taking a step up to equity partnership, which saw me running the firm with a small management team. It helped me focus on what my goals were for the firm, and for myself personally in terms of fee earning vs management. It also helped me manage the emotions during that process too.
Once the initial coaching sessions are completed, you don’t feel like you’re just left to get on with things—further help is always encouraged.
I would recommend Simona and her coaching services. As a lawyer herself, she really understood the pressures of the profession and how much stress and strain it can place on you.”
Claire Darby, Equity Partner, Pearson Hard Solicitors
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
“I think the biggest takeaway is the possibility to revisit current issues, and regain focus so to speak. Also get Simona’s insights on how to deal with business and mindset goals (procrastination, distancing from firm, moving project management to ownership, and creating boundaries). I think everyone should work on their mindset and training was helpful in providing insights and points of action, some of which I have already started doing, and so it is working.”
Law Firm Founder
Ready to make leading your firm feel easier?
A relaxed, no-pressure, no-obligation, conversation.
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Law Firm Expertise – Previous Partner, Solicitor 20 yrs, Coach 10 + years
In addition to coaching, hypnotherapy, NLP, and other expertise. I was a practising employment solicitor for
20 years. As a Partner, my focus was business growth, marketing, and staff development. I have set up new departments, and a new firm, been headhunted, promoted, and undergone a career change. Finally, for ten years, I have coached numerous law firm owners, partners, and solicitors and bring their experiences and learnings to our sessions.
Why coaching for managing partners and law firm owners?
Successful leaders have mentors, loyal advisors, and coaches.
Someone to help upgrade and fine-tune management, leadership, business, and personal development skills. Push them to think more fully and uncover blindspots that might be slowing down progress. Challenge, encourage, and hold them to their goals and actions.
They provide an opportunity for deep thinking, inspire new ideas, teach new ways of changing mindset and habits, someone to bounce ideas off, be their biggest cheerleader and hold them to account.
These individuals need to people willing to have difficult conversations, and challenge them where needed.
Coaching is a professional skill that offers one-to-one development that stands out from training and peer support.
Coaching with Simona
I help you get to wherever you want to go, quicker and easier. Many of my clients know what to do, or what they want to change, but need clarity as to why it is not happening.
I help them with new skills, new learning, and realisations, the ‘aha’ moments, that generate change. “If we do what we have always done. We will get what we have always got.” They also benefit from extra support, opportunities to analyse what worked and what still needs to be tweaked, during the change implementation.
Whether that is wondering why you still can’t protect two hours a week to do the firm development work you keep promising. Or find yourself in circular conversations with teams. Or want to reduce the inner critic as you move forward with leading your firm.
I focus on mindset, behaviour, and strategy. Relying on decades of personal experience, and from coaching other lawyers.
Coaching sessions create internal change alongside tangible, practical actions, and results.
You can find out more about what coaching is here. Otherwise, get in touch to find out more.
A relaxed, no-pressure, no-obligation, conversation.
Types of online coaching packages available:
Ad Hoc
Beyond Unstuck Programme
Burning Query/Thinking Time
3 + months
Goal or Change Outcome Focus
Become Unstuck Programme
More Time / Team Challenges / Reignite Interest
2-4 months
Strategic Thinking & Boundaries
Beyond Unstuck Programme
Tackling Complexities / Forward Planning / Thriving
12 + months
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