DEEP LEGAL SECTOR EXPERIENCE
With the legal profession’s unique dynamics and professional norms, you need an executive coach who understands your business inside and out.
We do. And we offer highly-experienced, business-orientated coaching and inclusion services to international and national law firms.
Having worked in, with or for law firms and professional partnerships for three decades, Chelsham’s owner Tony Jackson has extensive experience in the legal world and, crucially, of partnership life.
Tony’s experience of the sector includes HR director and culture change leader roles in two international law firms, which have added to his understanding of the sector, its evolution and challenges.
We know how the legal world behaves and operates, and bring this perspective and knowledge to coaching and inclusion assignments. We are proud to include numerous law firms in our client base - every single one of which (bar newly-appointed clients of course) has given us repeat business.
We coach current and future partners, board members, business services leaders, fee-earners and teams, helping you to accelerate your performance and success.
We deliver inclusive leadership and related change programmes that are grounded in that true understanding of your organisation’s ways of working and culture.
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Chelsham is uniquely positioned to coach board members, fee-earners, partners and leaders within law firms.
Our clients are already successful; working with us will allow you to shift up a gear and enhance your/your firm’s performance.
We deliver trusted, ethical coaching to help you work through complexity, create focus, and achieve real progress.
It can be both refreshing and challenging as we move beyond your comfort zone; our clients tell us that our work can be extremely energising.
Our approach is also underpinned by solid psychological principles, which helps us to notice, really notice, what’s going on and to identify challenges and interference. Quickly.
It’s coaching, done differently.
“Tony is an active listener and works in a calm, organised way. He is really insightful and great at drawing together themes. This can be really helpful for someone new to being coached ... as it helps you to identify patterns of behaviour and work to address these.”
-Equity Partner, International Law Firm
Typical coaching assignments:
Leadership/executive coaching for the most senior partners
New partners
Personal brand/leadership brand
Transition into a new firm or position ("first 90 days")
Team development
Partner candidates
Transition back into work after parental leave
Performance coaching
Business services leaders - current or future
Confidence/mindset coaching
Retirement from partnership
Inter alia
We foster inclusion.
your diverse people WILL NOT thrive without inclusion.
At Chelsham we specialise in creating the conditions where a diverse workforce feels at home. We want to help create a world in which everyone works for inclusive businesses and in which nobody is excluded or held back because of who they are.
In the 2020s it is no longer good enough, not that it ever was, to have a corporate culture which fails to support the careers and needs of a diverse array of people.
Inclusion is about ensuring that everyone in your diverse workforce feels valued and respected.
We work with leaders, leadership teams, groups and whole firms to drive a culture of inclusion, helping people understand how their choices, decisions and behaviours contribute to, or detract from, a culture of inclusion.
This leads to morale improving, confidence rising and your talented people feeling they belong. They are the priority. You will also, however, be meeting your SRA requirements and the expectations of your current and future clients, as well as potentially building competitive advantage.
“I don’t know how you did it but somehow you created a positive atmosphere and open mood amongst my colleagues that I have never seen before in my years in this organisation. Very thought provoking and a real shot in the arm.”
-Board Programme Sponsor
core reflection points include:
What is leadership in the context of inclusion?
What do you want people to experience, and to be saying about, you and your practice group or firm?
To what extent do you understand the nature and impact of exclusion?
Why can inclusive leadership be a challenge for highly skilled people?
We are highly experienced in carrying people along towards our clients’ objectives, sensitively and effectively.
Our goal is to help clients to consider inclusion as a principle across every single thing you do; we start by creating better workplaces for people to work in.
keen to know more?
Let’s speak. Get in touch for a complimentary initial consultation and let’s see how we can support you in achieving your objectives.
