Thrilled to be the keynote speaker at Inside Practice’s AI x Midsize conference in Chicago in November.

Register here.

My session description follows … thank you, Tim Hart, Daniel Smallwood, Shana English, Charde’ Carbonell, for helping me look and sound smart:

Building High-Performing Teams: Talent Development and Retention in a Resource-Conscious Environment …

In today’s competitive legal market, attracting, developing, and retaining top talent requires more than simply offering higher salaries. This session explores how law firms can build high-performing teams with limited budgets by adopting a people-first approach to talent development, career progression, and employee engagement.

Attendees will learn strategies for identifying critical talent gaps, creating meaningful career trajectories, and transforming teams from reactive service providers into proactive business partners. Hear innovative recruitment and retention practices, alternative incentives that drive employee satisfaction, and the importance of aligning leadership, HR, and departmental stakeholders around shared organizational goals.

Join this discussion to discover practical approaches for building resilient teams, securing leadership buy-in, and cultivating a workplace culture that attracts and retains exceptional legal professionals.

Honored to be part of a speakers’ cohort that includes many of the best and brightest in our industry and profession – people I admire and consider dear friends: Dave Hambourger, Alex Schnepf, Michael Nogroski, Morgan Llewellyn, Linda Moss, Sivan Koenig Galinsky, Melissa Melinauskas Marshall, James Wang, Mark Levin, Brooke Loucks, Rachel Shields Williams, Sally Rouse, Paula Hincapie Smith, and Jeanne Burger Hammerstrom.

(Now I gotta figure out what in the h*ll I’m gonna say …)