Heinan Landa is the Founder and CEO of Optimal Networks, Inc., a globally-ranked IT services firm. After earning his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, Heinan went on to receive his MBA from The Wharton School of Business. Featured in Legal Management, Legal Times, Chief Executive, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, CIO, and with regular appearances on WJLA-TV, WTTG-TV, and WUSA9, Heinan is a trusted leader in the legal, technology, and business spaces.

Heinan has been providing IT services to law firm for nearly three decades and is the author of “The Modern Law Firm: How to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Technological Change". For more, www.optimalnetworks.com, 240-499-7900, or [email protected].

https://www.modernlawfirmbook.com/

https://www.optimalnetworks.com/workfromhome/

Heidi K. Brown is a graduate of The University of Virginia School of Law, a law professor at Brooklyn Law School, and a former litigator in the construction industry. Having struggled with anxiety and fear as a law student, attorney, and new law professor, she finally untangled her fears, embracing authenticity as a powerful asset in teaching and practicing law. She is the author of Untangling Fear in Lawyering: A Four-Step Journey Toward Powerful Advocacy (ABA 2019), The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy (ABA 2017), and a two-volume legal writing book series entitled The Mindful Legal Writer. Heidi champions the importance of openly discussing anxieties and fears in lawyering, and helping quiet and anxious law students and lawyers become profoundly effective advocates, in their authentic voices. Her website is www.theintrovertedlawyer.com, and she loves to hear from readers on Instagram @introvertedlawyer and Twitter @introvertlawyer.

Contact Information: [email protected] or [email protected]

Here is the link to Heidi's new book: https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/358687385/

Leeatt Rothschild has over 15 years of experience at the intersection of business, sustainability, and brand purpose. In 2016 she founded Packed with Purpose, a corporate gifting company that embeds social impact into the everyday act of gift-giving, from empowering underserved women with job skills to supporting sustainability efforts. Packed with Purpose gifts enable companies (from Fortune 500 to nonprofit organizations) to create societal impact while positively influencing their business across employees, clients and other key stakeholders.

Prior to founding Packed with Purpose, Leeatt was Vice President of Advisory Services at Mission Measurement. In this role, she advised Fortune 500 Chief Sustainability Officers and executives on maximizing the impact and financial returns of their social responsibility initiatives. 

Leeatt earned her bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and following graduation served two years in the Peace Corps in Paraguay, creating income-generating opportunities with local farmers. She earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and a Masters in International Studies from The Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Leeatt serves as a board member for the Anti-Defamation League, an advisory board member of Bright Endeavors, a mentor for Wesleyan University’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Loyola University’s Baumhart Scholars, and is an alumni of the Schusterman Foundation Fellowship. 

https://packedwithpurpose.gifts/

Stephanie Kusibab is the founder and CEO of Essentiam, a strategy consultancy partnering with for-profit and non-profit organizations to capture market opportunities, instill focus, build leadership capacity and accelerate growth. Stephanie has more than 20 years of experience initiating and implementing strategic account plans, new service and product roadmaps, and firm-wide strategic plans for organizations ranging in size from start-ups to those on Fortune’s Global 500 list.

In just the past five years, Stephanie has worked with organizational leaders to develop more than forty strategic plans and delivered training and team-building workshops for several dozen more. Combined with operational expertise gained working inside more than twenty different businesses, Stephanie understands not only how to define, but also how to operationalize strategy to ensure success.

Stephanie believes the most powerful ideas come from bringing people together. Through deliberate, structured interactions digitally and in-person, she helps organizations mine diverse perspectives to understand market opportunities, generate new ideas, coalesce around high impact strategies, and build stronger teams for organizational and professional success. 

As the Director of Marketing and Advocacy for the Legal Marketing Association, Stephanie partnered with Bloomberg Law to examine the connection between marketing and law firm strategy and understand the role of marketing and business development professionals in this important firm process. She co-authored several research reports and articles related to these findings.

You can connect with Stephanie through LinkedIn or via her company website. She welcomes conversations with all those interested in collaborative strategy development.

https://www.EssentiamStrategy.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-kusibab/

Merry Neitlich is the founder and managing partner of EM Consulting, a leader in law firm marketing and business development solutions. With over 25 years of experience, Merry provides clients with tools to grow relationships and successfully identify, court and convert targets into clients. She assists law firms in developing and implementing comprehensive branding programs. Merry has extensive experience coaching attorneys in business development in order to grow their practices. She has interviewed hundreds of in-house counsels across the country for law firm clients in order to enhance relationships and client satisfaction. Merry offers training programs in business development, legal operations, client retention and satisfaction programs. In 2017, Merry was inducted into the LMA Hall of Fame and she has also been inducted into the College of Law Practice Management.

http://www.emconsults.org/

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The Ted Talk instructions: http://emconsults.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/TED-Talk-for-Laywers.pdf

The link to all of my JD Supra articles as a two year winner of the JD Supra Readers Choice Award: https://www.jdsupra.com/authors/merry-neitlich/

Jennifer S. Bankston has spent her career ACTIVATING IDEAS and elevating brands.  With years of in-house experience at leading management consulting firms, technology companies, and law firms, she has a technology-driven, pragmatic approach for delivery.

Jennifer has served as Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer for three law firms, including an AmLaw 200 firm, where she led the building of creative and sophisticated service offerings for its clients.  She was a member of the leadership team that transformed an unknown law firm into a leading litigation boutique for global institutional investors and business clients in a highly competitive marketplace.

Today, Jennifer partners with law firms and companies to provide marketing and business development strategies paired with technology solutions.  She utilizes her storytelling mastery to activate ideas at all levels of the organization - from the executive level to client service teams, partners and marketers.  Jennifer's vast exposure to global business and culture propagates an exciting, thoughtful, and intelligent perspective to client work.  

https://www.bankstonmarketingsolutions.com/

 

A senior marketing executive with broad experience across business-to-business marketing in large, medium and small sized law firms, Jennifer Smut's key strengths lie in strategic and organizational development. She is currently the Chief marketing Officer at Connolly Gallagher LLP. As a founding member and past-President of the Legal Marketing Association -Metro Philadelphia Chapter, Jennifer is actively involved at the regional and national levels of this organization. She also served as co-Executive Editor of Strategies, the Journal of The Legal Marketing Association. Most recently Jennifer joined the 2020 Women on Boards campaign and co-chairs the Wilmington Steering Committee. The overall goal is to educate women about how they can navigate their contacts and career experience to get on corporate boards and be a part of the larger national conversation.

https://www.connollygallagher.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennsmuts

David Epstein shares a well-defined understanding of the business world today, and possess the capacity to identify and align clients' needs, with the products and services being offered. Coming from a successful and diverse background in Human Capital, David is able to engage decision makers, devise winning strategies and solutions, and provide organizations with a way to fuel employee growth now and into the future.

https://intelligentstaffingcompany.com/

Brian Cuban, the brother of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, is an attorney, author and recovery advocate. His second book, The Addicted Lawyer: Tales of The Bar, Booze, Blow & Redemption is already an Amazon #1 Best Seller in pre-order. His first book, Shattered Image: "My Triumph Over Body Dysmorphic Disorder," chronicles his first-hand experiences living with and recovering from, twenty-seven years of eating disorders and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

He has spoken at conferences, nonprofit events, colleges and universities across the United States and in Canada. Brian has appeared on prestigious talk shows such as the Katie Couric Show as well as numerous media outlets around the country. He also writes extensively on these subjects. His columns have appeared on CNN.com, Foxnews.com, The Huffington Post and in online and print newspapers around the world.

http://briancuban.com/

Pulling from over 20 years in education, counseling and non-profit leadership, Renee Branson's passion and purpose is helping individuals, teams, and organizations cultivate resilience and well-being. After years of working with survivors of trauma and caregivers who help heal them, she became enthralled with what it was that allowed people to not only survive, but thrive through their greatest crisis. The answer always came up the same: resilience. Resilience can be taught, strengthen and cultivated. It is not only trauma survivors and their caregivers who experience the impact of toxic and chronic stress. It can impact anyone in any profession. In recent years, the legal industry has begun to lead efforts to minimize the damage caused to attorneys from toxic stress, burnout, addictions and mental health concerns. Renee works with attorneys and law firms to build programs that increase resilience and well-being in accordance with the ABA Well-Being initiative. Renee earned her B.S. from The Ohio State University and her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Colorado.

https://reneebranson.blog/