Leadership Skills

Student Testimonial: "I found the workshop very helpful, especially the framework prior to writing, as well as the email writing tips. I would recommend it to other students.”

“I found the workshop to be both interactive and informative. While we covered some of the tips during our 1L Legal Research and Writing course, it is still a valuable refresher on how to conduct legal writing and maintain effective professional email communication. I am grateful for having the opportunity to attend the workshop.”

Student Testimonial: "My coaching session with Catherine was extremely helpful! She was supportive and encouraging and gave me tons of advice on how I could work on developing certain professional traits. I would recommend her to any student with doubts as to how well they would fare in the legal profession! Catherine was great at listening, allowing me to think of different ways to approach any inquiries I raised. I particularly appreciated that she gave steps and assignments to pursue later to utilize the tips she suggested in the meeting. I found having something to do afterward helped to really crystallize her advice."

Student Testimonial: "The public speaking was tremendously helpful - I went in with two questions for Chris: what makes great stories great and how we can use humour when telling stories. He provided a really useful story framework from Marshall Ganz called Challenge-Choices-Outcome and talked about how to apply it in everyday life. It’s a fantastic tool that has already helped me to tell better stories. On the humour front, he also had some excellent and insight ideas."

Student Testimonial: "I had my session with Chris Graham today. It was brilliant! 10/10 experience. Chris has an amazing presence. He was really great at creating a calm and comfortable space and all his advice was really insightful, practical and useful. I left feeling a lot more confident about my abilities and super excited to implement his feedback.”

Student Testimonial: "I enjoyed the session with Gina and a big thank you to the CDO for organizing it! What I enjoyed most: the movie scenes and thinking through real-life legal scenarios in which our emotions affect the waywe present ourselves in the workplace. What could be improved: I think more activities would have been great. I know that we were short on time, but I was disappointed that we didn't get to do the active listening activity. I think it would've been more engaging/effective to have more activities like the "writing with opposite hand" activity instead of spending most of the time listening to a lecture.”