Total Credits: 1.0 MCLE, 1.0 Ethics, 1.0 Kansas Ethics
As lawyers, we all face challenges balancing work obligations with life, outside interests, and other responsibilities. Setting appropriate boundaries, and encouraging and respecting the same of our colleagues, is one key to maintaining productivity and engagement. And identifying your goals and priorities is an important first step in establishing which boundaries will be most effective for you. How can you set boundaries while also consistently achieving excellence? How can you learn to better appreciate, understand, and respect others’ boundaries? And, importantly, why is it crucial to do both? Participants will consider how (and why) to set realistic intentions for the year ahead, learn strategies for setting boundaries to support those intentions, understand how to respect boundaries, and then participate in an interactive (poll-based) discussion around a boundary-setting scenario lawyers might encounter at work. We will end with some practical tips participants can employ to create healthier, more productive, work environments for themselves and their colleagues.
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Speakers: Mollie Farrell Khazaeli, Aspire, St. Louis; Kelli Dunaway, Aspire, St. Louis
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Kelli Dunaway is a certified coach and consultant specializing in leadership development and living with intention.
With more than two decades of experience in the legal field, as a practicing lawyer and in professional development teams, Kelli brings a unique understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing legal professionals. She helps lawyers and legal organizations enhance their leadership presence, build stronger teams, and achieve greater professional and personal success.
Drawing on her own legal experience, as well as her experience in political campaigns and government, and a deep understanding of the legal profession, Kelli partners with clients to define their leadership vision and create actionable strategies for achieving their leadership achievements while also living meaningful lives.
Her training and coaching programs focus on developing key leadership skills, including communication, relationships, feedback, engagement, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking and planning, fostering intentionality and driving measurable results.
Kelli is the Founder of Aspire, former Councilwoman in St. Louis County, an ICF-certified coach and a member of the California Bar. She earned her J.D. from UCLA and her B.A. in History from Southern Illinois University.
Mollie Farrell is a Partner with Aspire, where she provides coaching, training and consulting services. She coaches and presents on a wide range of topics, including communication skills, feedback, boundaries, and impostor syndrome. Mollie enjoys supporting working parents and helping teams to increase engagement and improve communication across differences and in the hybrid workplace.
Her nearly 20 years of experience ranges from large firm litigator to attorney for the federal government, from law school career advisor to professional
development director at a mid-sized law firm. She uses her strong intuition and listening skills, with a good mix of questionable humor and a lot of empathy, to help clients achieve their potential.
Mollie received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s a member of the Missouri Bar, an ICF Associate Certified Coach and an Impostor Syndrome-Informed Coach through the Impostor Syndrome Institute.
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