Your lawyers are technically excellent. But technical excellence alone doesn’t make someone a great leader, and most legal professionals were never taught how to make that shift.

That’s the gap I speak into.

I’m Marija - lawyer, leadership coach, and someone who has spent the last decade working inside the legal profession. I speak at legal conferences and run workshops for law firms and in-house legal teams on the real barriers that hold talented lawyers back from leading well.

Topics

My sessions draw on real frameworks developed through years of coaching senior women in law — not generic leadership theory. Topics include:

•  The Hidden Friction — the internal patterns quietly undermining leadership effectiveness in legal teams (The Prover, The Permission-Seeker, The Overthinker)

•  Leadership identity for lawyers — why so many senior lawyers struggle to step into leadership, and what actually shifts it

•  Imposter syndrome in law — what it really is, why it’s so prevalent in the legal profession, and practical ways to work with it

•  Designing your leadership on your own terms — for lawyers navigating career transitions, role changes, or a growing sense that something needs to shift

Sessions can be tailored for conferences, firm-wide events, team workshops, or internal leadership programs.

Formats

I work with event organisers and firms in three ways:

•  Conference speaker — a focused talk that opens up honest conversation about leadership in law

•  Workshop facilitator — a hands-on session for legal teams, with practical frameworks your people can apply immediately

•  Event speaker — for firm events, association meetings, or internal team days where you want to leave people thinking differently

Past Events

I’ve spoken and facilitated at:

•  LawVu/InView Annual Conference — speaker and workshop facilitator (twice)

•  Thomson Reuters Next Gen Leaders — workshop facilitator

If you’re planning an event and want your audience to walk away with more than a takeaway slide deck — let’s talk.

Book a 1:1 call to tell me about your event and we’ll work out whether we’re a good fit.