How to Develop Your Voice: Getting a Seat at the Table, Gaining Influence and Effecting Change
Includes a Live Web Event on 01/21/2026 at 2:00 PM (CST)
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Learn strategies for building trust and credibility, developing consensus and forming crucial ally relationships — many of the essential ingredients for being a dynamic leader and change agent in our firms. Understand the nuances of being a successful legal business and operations leader, from the importance of emotional intelligence to excelling and growing as a small team or department of one.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn language to use in activating your voice inside the firm.
- Adapt skills for communicating effectively with leadership and other departments to solicit feedback and action.
- Identify traits of valuable allies inside the firm to champion or vocalize initiatives on your behalf.
- Assess and evangelize milestones, quick wins and anecdotal and hard evidence of your accomplishments.
This webinar is $39 for ALA members and $99 for non-members. CLMs can use the code CLM25 through December 31, 2025, for a $5 discount.
CLM® Application Credit: 1.0 hour(s) of Self-Management Skills (SM).
CLM® Application Credit for Functional Specialists: 1.0 hour(s) in the subject area of Human Resources (HR) towards the additional hours required of some Functional Specialists to fulfill the CLM application.
CLM® Recertification Credit: 1.0 hour(s) in the subject area of Human Resources (HR).
Jennifer Shankleton
Chief Growth and Development Officer
Brennan Manna Diamond LLC
Jennifer Shankleton is a strategic-minded marketing executive with a deep knowledge of marketing communications, business development, public and media relations, and corporate and crisis communications with extensive experience in the professional services sector. She has served in first-chair legal marketing roles in firms across Northeast Ohio, and prior to legal marketing, Shankleton worked in financial services and business to consumer marketing and public relations. She has received a certification from Ackert Business Development Institute, developed BMD’s first business development coaching program and helped to launch the firm’s Associate Mentorship program.
Shankleton is a member of the Legal Sales and Service Organization (LSSO), currently serving on its Editorial Board, and has been a member and volunteer leader in the Legal Marketing Association since 2010.
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