By Marta Manus and Megan M. Moore
Personal Perspectives
After suffering from severe burnout eight years into her legal career, Marta Manus knew there had to be a better way of working and leading her life. Coaching helped her reach new heights in her personal and professional life and allowed her to fully tap into her potential. Working with a coach helped Marta unleash her leadership potential in a way that her formal legal education had not. Her coach became her trusted co-creator in the life she envisioned but had not fully stepped into. Through the deliberate discovery process, coaching showed her how to become more mindful of her own potential. You guessed it; everything holding Marta back started with her. Through coaching, she recognized and changed the beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors holding her back.
After six years at a firm that touted the availability of its attorneys 24/7, Megan Moore had lost her purpose in her legal work. She felt burned out and uninspired. Through coaching, she first worked to improve her mindset at her current job, and then later discovered she wanted something different. By partnering with a coach that noticed certain patterns and limiting beliefs, Megan realized she had the intelligence, grit, and commitment to create a different life for herself. She ran a successful solo practice, and now dedicates herself full-time to supporting attorneys and other professionals to achieve what they want. Coaching transformed Megan’s vision of herself from a risk-averse worker bee to a risk-taking entrepreneur.
So, how exactly did coaching create these transformations for Marta and Megan?
Coaching Is a Partnership
Coaching is a partnership between the coach and client so the client can achieve what they want. Attorneys go to coaches for many reasons: creating balance in their lives, making partner at a firm, making a career change, and/or simply finding more happiness in their current career track. Whatever overarching outcome the attorney wants, a coach partners with them in an open and curious way, so the attorney is empowered to achieve the results they desire.
Coaching centers on mindset so the client can create a thriving life and career that not only looks good on the outside but also feels good on the inside. Coaches do not tell you what to do. Instead, they explore what you want and what is keeping you from getting it. Through questions, reflections, and challenging current beliefs or behaviors, a coach supports the client to utilize 100% of their potential. Through this process, clients can show up as a leader for themselves and others, both personally or professionally. Coaching helps you face challenges with a mindset that gives you a sense of freedom and true personal power.
Why Would an Attorney or Firm Work with a Coach?
Organizations are facing unprecedented changes, with people resigning in record numbers because the old way of leading is no longer working. People are looking for empathetic, empowering, courageous, and conscientious leaders that motivate and inspire people to live and lead as their best self. Coaching supports this kind of shift, both individually and organizationally. It can help you and/or your firm create whatever desired outcome you want.
For attorneys ready to step into power, grow as a leader, maximize potential, and actualize your dream life and career, consider the power of working with a coach.
BIOS:
Marta Manus is an attorney who, after experiencing severe burnout, decided to pursue her passion to become a certified Leadership Coach and Workplace Wellness Consultant. After thirteen years in the legal profession, Marta now works with individuals and organizations to create a work life experience that prioritizes well-being, engagement, and effectiveness without self-sacrifice and burnout. She is a frequent guest speaker at legal conferences and is passionate about helping lawyers protect themselves from burnout. To connect with Marta, please visit www.martamanus.com.
Megan M. Moore is a licensed attorney and certified professional coach. She is President & CEO of Megan Moore, Inc., a business founded on curiosity and the power of the right question. She works with career-driven attorneys, professionals, and organizations focused on creating fulfilling careers for themselves or their employees. Learn more at www.MeganMooreInc.com or contact Megan directly at Megan@MeganMooreInc.com.