2023 Leadership Institute

SMU Cox School of Business
Tuesday, April 11 - Thursday, April 13, 2023 & Tuesday, May 2 - Thursday, May 4, 2023
20 CLE Credit Hours (1 Hr Ethics)

What You Never Learned in Law School

WITH THE TEXAS GENERAL COUNSEL FORUM’s LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE – LEARN TO LEAD LEGAL TEAMS WITH VISION, UNDERSTANDING, CLARITY & AGILITY IN A WORLD THAT REMAINS VOLATILE, UNCERTAIN, COMPLEX & AMBIGUOUS.

The Texas General Counsel Forum’s Leadership Institute was designed by General Counsel to provide a carefully crafted leadership program, targeted to General Counsel, and taught by SMU Cox School of Business Professors and Consultants with the assistance and input of General Counsel. Each three-day session provides in-house counsel a focused and intensive study of legal leadership within the legal department and across the company, as well as better legal perspective on company finance in an interactive classroom setting with 25-30 Chief Legal Officers, General Counsel, senior managing counsel, and rising in-house counsel from companies, government entities and non-profit organizations.

2023 Pricing

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$3,800per person

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Program Benefits

20 CLE credit hours (1 Hr Ethics) available over 6 days
All study & classroom materials
Certificate of completion
Continental breakfast, lunch, & refreshments
2 evening networking receptions
2 networking dinners
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Importance of Leadership

Legal leaders are called to manage and lead beyond what they know. That is why Texas General Counsel Forum’s Leadership Institute was created in 2006 to provide the tools and skills to excel in these unique leadership roles. Partnering with the SMU Cox School of Business, the institute provides real world scenarios to prepare you to be a stronger leader in your in-house role.

2023 Schedule

DAY 01: TUESDAY, APRIL 11	DAY 02: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12	DAY 03: THURSDAY, APRIL 13
9:30 AM \| Networking Breakfast	8:00 AM \| Networking Breakfast	7:30 AM \| Networking Breakfast
10:00 AM Leading Your Legal Department & Overseeing Your Company’s Legal Priorities with Effective, Targeted Messaging with Jay Carson	8:30 AM Enhancing Your Legal Leadership Through Influence & Trust with Jerry Magar	8:00 AM Providing Legal Advice with an Understanding of Strategic Financial Statement Analysis with Hemang Desai
12:30 PM \| Lunch	12:30 PM \| Lunch	12:00 PM \| Lunch
1:30 PM Balancing Creativity, Innovation & Risk in Your Legal Decision Making, Messaging & Actions with Jay Carson	1:30 PM Advising Your Client & Navigating Financial Reporting in Making Legal Decisions for the Company with Greg Sommers	12:30 PM Leadership Through Authentic Presence with Kimberly Davis
5:30 PM \| Evening Networking Reception	6:00 PM \| Networking Dinner	3:30 PM \| Dismissal

Day 04: Tuesday, May 2	Day 05: Wednesday, May 3	Day 06: Thursday, May 4
9:30 AM \| Networking Breakfast	8:00 AM \| Networking Breakfast	7:30 AM \| Networking Breakfast
10:00 AM Corporate Governance & Ethics with Hemang Desai	8:30 AM Leading Your Legal Department Utilizing Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team with David Bertrand	8:00 AM Legal Leadership Utilizing Applied Innovation: Human Centered Design with Tim Sutton
12:00 PM \| Lunch	12:30 PM \| Lunch	12:00 PM \| Lunch
1:00 PM Providing Legal Guidance Based on Various Business Valuation Measures with Pam Baker	1:30 PM Leading Your Legal Department: Building Capability Through Coaching & Mentoring with Pam Van Dyke	12:30 PM Legal Leadership is a VUCA World with Jay Carson
5:30 PM \| Evening Networking Reception	6:00 PM \| Networking Dinner	3:30 PM \| Dismissal

DAY 01 DAY 02 DAY 03 DAY 04 DAY 05 DAY 06

Day 01: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Leading Your Legal Department & Overseeing Your Company’s Legal Priorities with Effective, Targeted Messaging
Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty
10:00 AM – 12:30PM | 1.5 Hours CLE

In-house lawyers will learn how to better communicate the department’s ideas on legal issues both in the department and throughout the company in a way that is memorable and influential. Using real life examples that you may face in your legal department and focusing on six key principles, we will work on ways to improve your legal communications using language that is simple and concrete, as well as how to use elements of emotion, surprise and story to make sure that the legal department and the company employees will remember and can act on your messages and priorities. This session will utilize video clips, classroom interaction and an application exercise to reinforce the concepts and how they can be used.

Balancing Creativity, Innovation & Risk in Your Legal Decision Making, Messaging & Actions
Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Successful leaders must strike a balance between complexity and ensuring proper safeguards and procedures, while also encouraging creativity and innovation, which involves some level of risk taking. In-house counsel will engage in an experiential exercise to demonstrate and explore these tensions, allowing them to discover key factors that can contribute to greater creativity and innovation which in turn can lead to better legal decisions, messaging and actions within the department and across the company. Emphasis will be on evidence-based modeling encouraging innovation and will help in-house counsel develop areas for growing both individual creativity skills and organizational practices that support risk-taking and innovation.

Day 02: Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Enhancing Your Legal Leadership Through Influence & Trust
Jerry Magar, Founding Partner of People Systems Consulting
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

In an increasingly complex and collaborative work environment, a distinguishing characteristic of a successful in-house leader is the ability to build and maintain trusting relationships. This ability distinguishes those who flourish from those who falter. In-house counsel are expected and required to achieve impressive results on a continual, time critical basis within their departments, across the company, and at the C Suite and Board levels. In this session, in-house counsel will learn and practice leveraging influence to create more productive and successful relationships with your Board, your bosses, your peers, your team and with other employees at the company.

Advising Your Client & Navigating Financial Reporting in Making Legal Decisions for the Company
Greg Sommers, Professor of Practice SMU
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

In-house counsel need to understand the basic financials of its client, the company. Legal advice should be predicated on an understanding of the company’s financial position. In this session, in-house counsel will learn and engage with financial module reviews, including income, balance sheet and cash flow statements and their interrelation. This module provides detailed examination of the information conveyed by financial statements. It enhances your understanding of the difference between earnings and cash flows and the implications of the difference, assisting you in providing better legal advice to the company. Real world scenarios will be utilized, allowing you to interact with other in-house counsel to make legal recommendations based on the financial picture of the company.

Day 03: Thursday, April 13, 2023

Providing Legal Advice with an Understanding of Strategic Financial Statement Analysis
Hemang Desai, Distinguished Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair SMU
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

General Counsel and other in-house lawyers need an understanding of the company’s financial strategies in order to better advise their client. With this in mind, this session will focus on an introduction to the basic principles underlying U.S. GAAP, core financial statements and the information contained therein. This session will focus on developing a framework for strategic financial statement analysis. Through a series of ratios, we will examine how a company’s strategy or its business model is reflected in its financials. The ratios will also permit an assessment of how well leadership has executed its strategy and provide key information on how to advise and direct the company on legal matters pertaining to finance. The key takeaways will be (i) an understanding of key drivers/levers of your company’s performance, (ii) how the business story is reflected in the company’s financials and (iii) how to provide better legal advice with this knowledge.

Leadership Through Authentic Presence
Kimberly Davis, Consultant, Speaker and Author of Brave Leadership
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 0.5 Hr. CLE

Successful in-house leaders approach the world with an authentic presence. This powerful and engaging session will explore why you do what you have chosen to do professionally. What is the impact you want to have on your legal department, your client, your colleagues and your community through the work that you do? In this session, in-house counsel will explore enhanced leadership skills by engaging your authentic presence.

Day 04: Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Corporate Governance & Ethics
Hemang Desai, Distinguished Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair SMU
10:00 AM – 12:00PM | 1.0 Hour Ethics CLE

In-house counsel understand the essential role ethics plays in business, especially as it pertains to corporate governance and financial reporting. This session will address multiple critical topics including leadership’s responsibility over financial reporting, corporate ethics, governance and control failures and their implications. The discussion will center around two real case situations. We will examine the above issues with a critical lens discussing the roles (or failure) of the leadership team, the board, auditors, analysts and institutional investors.

Providing Legal Guidance Based on Various Business Valuation Measures
Pam Baker, Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair TWU
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.5 Hours CLE

In many circumstances, in-house legal advice needs to take into consideration the company’s various business valuations. Business valuations include diverse forms of value measurements intended to both understand a company’s position and maximize the health and well-being of the organization. These may include historical value, exit value, entry value, fair value, economic value, shareholder value, customer value, supplier value, and stakeholder value. Measurements of these various forms of value take many forms – from economic models to present value to estimates. This discussion will lead in-house counsel through various business valuations and give you a hands-on approach on how to use these valuations in legal decision-making that focuses on the long-term success and prosperity of the company.

Day 05: Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Leading Your Legal Department Utilizing Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
David Bertrand, Director & Clinical Associate Professor SMU
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

As the leader of a legal department and/or as part of the broader executive team, you know the importance of creating an effective team. In this session, in-house counsel will learn how to use The Five Behaviors® model to assist in building a stronger legal department with a culture of true teamwork. Think about it for a moment… how is it that some legal teams with less talent and experience can consistently outperform more talented and experienced legal teams? Strong, cohesive legal teams create a competitive advantage by establishing differentiating leadership behaviors in the areas of building trust, mastering conflict, achieving commitment, embracing accountability, and focusing on results. In this session in-house counsel will learn how to become a better team player by exploring the five behaviors, your preferences and tendencies with each one, and new habits you might embrace to accelerate the team building process. In-house counsel can then use these tools to build a stronger more productive legal team.

Leading Your Legal Department: Building Capability Through Coaching & Mentoring
Pam Van Dyke, Consultant, Speaker & Adjunct Professor SMU
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

In-house leadership knows the importance of having high functioning, self-driven members on their legal department team. Recent research conducted by several sources, (Merrill, Harvard, Forbes) suggest that more and more organizations are moving away from a “command and control” top-down approach to leadership to more of a “coaching” style of leadership. Teams who establish coaching as an organizational competence experience more employee engagement and talent retention. In this session, in-house counsel will learn what it means to have a coaching mindset that is focused on shifting from a directive to a coaching leadership style. Through interactive exercises using real life scenarios that can occur in your law department, in-house counsel will learn how to effectively conduct conversations that impact both performance and development of in-house lawyers and other members of the legal department.

Day 06: Thursday, May 4, 2023

Legal Leadership Utilizing Applied Innovation: Human Centered Design
Tim Sutton, Academic Dir., Strategic Thinking for a Competitive Advantage
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 1.5 Hr. CLE

In-house counsel and legal departments are routinely asked to tackle very complex legal matters. The best solutions may not be immediately obvious. Nimbleness and innovation are key. Complex and ingrained problems require a means through which to discover the way to the best solution. In-house counsel will explore a process which provides a way to move forward even when the solution might not appear obvious. Design decisions fit into a larger context which includes history, politics, sustainability, ethics, relationships and aesthetics. This will allow you to search for solutions and lead your legal team to understand and utilize design impact.

Legal Leadership in a VUCA World
Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 1.0 Hr. CLE

VUCA stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. Traditional legal leadership is not enough in a VUCA world. Although leading in a VUCA world presents challenges, it opens the door to an array of skills that will enable in-house counsel to succeed and excel as leaders. Leaders and their legal teams need to develop the mental capabilities and desire to avoid being left behind. In this session in-house counsel will explore tactics that enhance successful leadership in a VUCA world.

"The Institute greatly enhanced my in-house business effectiveness. The small, interactive classes, taught by top-notch MBA faculty, helped me focus on legal issues through both a business and leadership lens."

Chris Willis
Chief People & Administrative Officer at PrimeSource Building Products
Leadership Institute Class of 2006

Noteworthy Alumni Companies

7-Eleven, Inc.
Austin Industries
AT&T Inc.
Baylor Scott & White Health
Ben E. Keith
Celanese
CenterPoint Energy
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.
Children’s Health System of Texas
CITGO Petroleum Corporation
Comerica Bank
Cook Children’s Health Care System

Dell Technologies
FedEx Office & Print Services, Inc.
GM Financial
Goldman Sachs
Interstate Batteries
J.C. Penney
Kimberly Clark
Lennox International
LyondellBasell
Mattress Firm, Inc.
North Texas Tollway Authority
NTA Life

ORIX Corporation USA
Orthofix Medical Inc.
PepsiCo, Inc.
Rent-A-Center, Inc.
Ryan, LLC
Southwest Airlines Co.
Texas Instruments Inc.
The Weir Group PLC
Topgolf
Trinity Industries, Inc.
Varsity Brands, LLC
Vistra Energy

Hotel Accommodations

The following hotels offer discounted rates to individuals attending SMU and/or Cox events. Please inquire about SMU rates, availability, and transportation options with the appropriate reservations desk.

The Beeman Hotel

Address: 6070 N US 75-Central Expy 1000
Dallas, TX 75206

Phone: (214) 750-6060

The Lumen Hotel

Address: 6101 Hillcrest Ave
Dallas, TX 75205

Phone: (214) 219-2400

The Highland Dallas, Curio Collection by Hilton

Address: 5300 E Mockingbird Ln
Dallas, TX 75206

Phone: (214) 520-7969

TGCF's Health Protocols

Due to the recent COVID-19 trends, we are not requiring confirmation of vaccination status or a negative COVID-19 test. If you have not been feeling well, please refrain from attending this event.

Cancellation Policy

All payments are non-refundable. Fees must be paid in full to reserve a place in the Leadership Institute. If you cannot attend, you may send a substitute or attend a future Leadership Institute. In the event the Texas General Counsel Forum has to cancel or postpone the Leadership Institute your payment will be fully refunded.

2023 Leadership Institute

SMU Cox School of Business
Tuesday, April 11 - Thursday, April 13, 2023 & Tuesday, May 2 - Thursday, May 4, 2023
20 CLE Credit Hours (1 Hr Ethics)

What You Never Learned in Law School

WITH THE TEXAS GENERAL COUNSEL FORUM’s LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE – LEARN TO LEAD LEGAL TEAMS WITH VISION, UNDERSTANDING, CLARITY & AGILITY IN A WORLD THAT REMAINS VOLATILE, UNCERTAIN, COMPLEX & AMBIGUOUS.

Sponsored By:

2023 Pricing

Program Benefits

Importance of Leadership

2023 Schedule

Day 01: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Leading Your Legal Department & Overseeing Your Company’s Legal Priorities with Effective, Targeted Messaging
Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty
10:00 AM – 12:30PM | 1.5 Hours CLE

Balancing Creativity, Innovation & Risk in Your Legal Decision Making, Messaging & Actions
Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Day 02: Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Enhancing Your Legal Leadership Through Influence & Trust
Jerry Magar, Founding Partner of People Systems Consulting
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Advising Your Client & Navigating Financial Reporting in Making Legal Decisions for the Company
Greg Sommers, Professor of Practice SMU
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Day 03: Thursday, April 13, 2023

Providing Legal Advice with an Understanding of Strategic Financial Statement Analysis
Hemang Desai, Distinguished Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair SMU
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Leadership Through Authentic Presence
Kimberly Davis, Consultant, Speaker and Author of Brave Leadership
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 0.5 Hr. CLE

Day 04: Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Corporate Governance & Ethics
Hemang Desai, Distinguished Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair SMU
10:00 AM – 12:00PM | 1.0 Hour Ethics CLE

Providing Legal Guidance Based on Various Business Valuation Measures
Pam Baker, Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair TWU
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.5 Hours CLE

Day 05: Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Leading Your Legal Department Utilizing Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
David Bertrand, Director & Clinical Associate Professor SMU
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Leading Your Legal Department: Building Capability Through Coaching & Mentoring
Pam Van Dyke, Consultant, Speaker & Adjunct Professor SMU
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Day 06: Thursday, May 4, 2023

Legal Leadership Utilizing Applied Innovation: Human Centered Design
Tim Sutton, Academic Dir., Strategic Thinking for a Competitive Advantage
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 1.5 Hr. CLE

Legal Leadership in a VUCA World
Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 1.0 Hr. CLE

"The Institute greatly enhanced my in-house business effectiveness. The small, interactive classes, taught by top-notch MBA faculty, helped me focus on legal issues through both a business and leadership lens."

Chris Willis
Chief People & Administrative Officer at PrimeSource Building Products
Leadership Institute Class of 2006

Noteworthy Alumni Companies

Hotel Accommodations

The Beeman Hotel

The Lumen Hotel

The Highland Dallas, Curio Collection by Hilton

TGCF's Health Protocols

Cancellation Policy

Upcoming Events

Virtual CLE Program: Criminalization of the Clean Air Act: Federal Prosecutions under the “General Duty Clause”

1st Forum Board Meeting

2023 LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: SESSION 1

2023 Leadership Institute

SMU Cox School of Business Tuesday, April 11 - Thursday, April 13, 2023 & Tuesday, May 2 - Thursday, May 4, 2023 20 CLE Credit Hours (1 Hr Ethics)

What You Never Learned in Law School

WITH THE TEXAS GENERAL COUNSEL FORUM’s LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE – LEARN TO LEAD LEGAL TEAMS WITH VISION, UNDERSTANDING, CLARITY & AGILITY IN A WORLD THAT REMAINS VOLATILE, UNCERTAIN, COMPLEX & AMBIGUOUS.

Sponsored By:

2023 Pricing

Program Benefits

Importance of Leadership

2023 Schedule

Day 01: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Leading Your Legal Department & Overseeing Your Company’s Legal Priorities with Effective, Targeted Messaging Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty 10:00 AM – 12:30PM | 1.5 Hours CLE

Balancing Creativity, Innovation & Risk in Your Legal Decision Making, Messaging & Actions Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Day 02: Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Enhancing Your Legal Leadership Through Influence & Trust Jerry Magar, Founding Partner of People Systems Consulting 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Advising Your Client & Navigating Financial Reporting in Making Legal Decisions for the Company Greg Sommers, Professor of Practice SMU 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Day 03: Thursday, April 13, 2023

Providing Legal Advice with an Understanding of Strategic Financial Statement Analysis Hemang Desai, Distinguished Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair SMU 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Leadership Through Authentic Presence Kimberly Davis, Consultant, Speaker and Author of Brave Leadership 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 0.5 Hr. CLE

Day 04: Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Corporate Governance & Ethics Hemang Desai, Distinguished Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair SMU 10:00 AM – 12:00PM | 1.0 Hour Ethics CLE

Providing Legal Guidance Based on Various Business Valuation Measures Pam Baker, Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair TWU 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.5 Hours CLE

Day 05: Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Leading Your Legal Department Utilizing Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team David Bertrand, Director & Clinical Associate Professor SMU 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Leading Your Legal Department: Building Capability Through Coaching & Mentoring Pam Van Dyke, Consultant, Speaker & Adjunct Professor SMU 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Day 06: Thursday, May 4, 2023

Legal Leadership Utilizing Applied Innovation: Human Centered Design Tim Sutton, Academic Dir., Strategic Thinking for a Competitive Advantage 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 1.5 Hr. CLE

Legal Leadership in a VUCA World Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 1.0 Hr. CLE

"The Institute greatly enhanced my in-house business effectiveness. The small, interactive classes, taught by top-notch MBA faculty, helped me focus on legal issues through both a business and leadership lens."

Chris Willis Chief People & Administrative Officer at PrimeSource Building Products Leadership Institute Class of 2006

Noteworthy Alumni Companies

Hotel Accommodations

The Beeman Hotel

The Lumen Hotel

The Highland Dallas, Curio Collection by Hilton

TGCF's Health Protocols

Cancellation Policy

Virtual CLE Program: Criminalization of the Clean Air Act: Federal Prosecutions under the “General Duty Clause”

1st Forum Board Meeting

2023 LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: SESSION 1

SMU Cox School of Business
Tuesday, April 11 - Thursday, April 13, 2023 & Tuesday, May 2 - Thursday, May 4, 2023
20 CLE Credit Hours (1 Hr Ethics)

Leading Your Legal Department & Overseeing Your Company’s Legal Priorities with Effective, Targeted Messaging
Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty
10:00 AM – 12:30PM | 1.5 Hours CLE

Balancing Creativity, Innovation & Risk in Your Legal Decision Making, Messaging & Actions
Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Enhancing Your Legal Leadership Through Influence & Trust
Jerry Magar, Founding Partner of People Systems Consulting
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Advising Your Client & Navigating Financial Reporting in Making Legal Decisions for the Company
Greg Sommers, Professor of Practice SMU
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Providing Legal Advice with an Understanding of Strategic Financial Statement Analysis
Hemang Desai, Distinguished Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair SMU
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Leadership Through Authentic Presence
Kimberly Davis, Consultant, Speaker and Author of Brave Leadership
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 0.5 Hr. CLE

Corporate Governance & Ethics
Hemang Desai, Distinguished Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair SMU
10:00 AM – 12:00PM | 1.0 Hour Ethics CLE

Providing Legal Guidance Based on Various Business Valuation Measures
Pam Baker, Professor and Accounting Dept. Chair TWU
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.5 Hours CLE

Leading Your Legal Department Utilizing Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
David Bertrand, Director & Clinical Associate Professor SMU
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Leading Your Legal Department: Building Capability Through Coaching & Mentoring
Pam Van Dyke, Consultant, Speaker & Adjunct Professor SMU
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 2.0 Hours CLE

Legal Leadership Utilizing Applied Innovation: Human Centered Design
Tim Sutton, Academic Dir., Strategic Thinking for a Competitive Advantage
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 1.5 Hr. CLE

Legal Leadership in a VUCA World
Jay Carson, Consultant, Former SMU Cox Faculty
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 1.0 Hr. CLE

Chris Willis
Chief People & Administrative Officer at PrimeSource Building Products
Leadership Institute Class of 2006