Legal Marketing

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Wonder Woman in Business, Kathleen Hilton

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Kathleen Hilton

Curious, resilient and humor-forward professional services marketing executive and proven revenue generator. Kathleen Hilton is a 30+ year Big Law marketing veteran (hence the humor-forward attribute) focused on outcomes driving increased customer loyalty and revenue.

Kathleen guides and coaches lawyers to build and sustain authentic relationships. Internal and external clients value my ability to scope the full customer experience, from the front-end sales process to ongoing service. Her portfolio spans account management, industry sector marketing, sales coaching, DEIB, ESG, designing thinking and brand.

Here are a few favorite resources: You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters; Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy; the Go Giver; Anand Sanwal at CB Insights; anything Axios and Smart Brevity. Certified by IDEO U Insights for Innovation and by Inspiring Comfort as a Trainer.

Enjoy the podcast.

Kathleen Hilton

Connect with Kathleen

stage LLC - https://stage.guide/

Inspiring Comfort - https://www.inspiringcomfort.com/our-story

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-hilton-8781873/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kathleenbigsur/

Kathleen Helen Hilton, co-founder + principal

kathleen@stage.guide

1.443.509.5510

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jan Anne Dubin

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Jan Anne Dubin

A legal industry pioneer, Jan Anne Dubin is CEO and Founder of Jan Anne Dubin Consulting.  Jan is an award-winning consultant with over 35 years of experience leading, innovating, and serving as a change agent and connector. 

Celebrating more than 10 years of delivering value and results to more, JADC assists organizations and individuals to better serve client needs by focusing on developing long-term relationships, strategic communications, revenue generation and by building brand, profile, and visibility.  Jan serves as an executive coach, providing strategic guidance and counsel to organizations and individuals by assisting them to achieve breakthroughs.  Jan has coached hundreds of lawyers, law students, and marketing professionals, including corporate law department and law firm leadership as well as high-potential individuals.  Jan is a career-long champion of diversity and inclusion and is passionate about her work in this area.

She serves as a strategic business partner to the Association of Corporate Counsel and has worked with ACC to create an executive coaching program and career development workshops.  She is a partner to Seyfarth Shaw’s The Belonging Project having created a three-part series for them on Empowered Resilience: Tools for Thriving in 2021.  She is also an advisor and business partner to the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and provided instrumental assistance to create and deliver its forum on Women’s Transformative Leadership: Empowerment by Improving Participation and Representation.

Jan served as the Chief Growth Officer of LifeXT, LLC (lifecrosstraining.com), where she was responsible for new client engagements by educating organizations on LifeXT’s wellbeing tools and resources.   Prior to starting JADC, she served as the first North American Business Development Director for Baker & McKenzie LLP and as the Director of Client Relations for DLA Piper US LLP and its legacy firms, where she held various senior management and leadership roles for more than 17 years.

Selected by StreetWise, Inc., as one of 20 recipients of its 2019 Inspiring Chicagoan award, Jan was also selected by Chicago Business Journal as one of its 2018 Women of Influence.  Jan was inducted in 2017 as a Fellow into the College of Law Practice Management (COLPM) and in 2016 into the Legal Marketing Association Midwest Chapter’s Hall of Fame.  She has been recognized by Today’s Chicago Woman magazine as one of 100 Women Making a Difference and has received the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Community Leadership Award.

In 1994 Jan was recruited by former First Lady Michelle Obama (then executive director of Public Allies Chicago) to join its board of directors; Jan later became its board chair and today serves on the emeritus board.  In 2020, Jan was recruited to serve on the i.c. Stars Chicago board and has been active in the Anti-Defamation League’s Women of Achievement annual dinner committee, having previously chaired the fundraising event for 27 years.

A 1994 M.B.A. graduate of The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, she holds a B.S. degree from the University of Kansas, William Allen White School of Journalism.  Jan lives in Chicago with her fiancé David Abrams and Shetland sheep dog Quinn.

Enjoy the podcast.

Jan Anne Dubin

Connect with Jan Anne

Jan Anne Dubin, MBA

CEO and Founder

312.399.3116

jan@janannedubinconsulting.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/janannedubin

Twitter: @JanAnneDubin

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Wonder Woman in Business, Cynthia McCollough

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Cynthia McCollough

Cyndy McCollough is the founder of McCollough Consulting, a digital marketing agency specifically focused on professional services organizations. On a project basis, Cyndy manages rebrands, leads website redesigns, produces corporate video, and offers soup-to-nuts martech strategy and implementation.

Cyndy's understanding of the importance of customer journeys and user experience was forged early in her career in enterprise software sales, and she spent the next 20 years applying these best practices in-house for law firms. Now she is a leading voice in the legal marketing industry, a prolific marketing technology blogger, and a member of University of Richmond’s Customer Experience (CX) Advisory Board.

Cyndy lives with her husband, pup, and cats in Great Falls, VA.

Enjoy the podcast.

Cynthia McCollough

A Couple of Cyndy’s Favorite Books

Bird by Bird

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author: An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come.

For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title:

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”

Buy the book

How We Fight for Our Lives

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper’s Bazaar; Elle; BuzzFeed; Goodreads; and many more.

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’”

Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another—and to one another—as we fight to become ourselves.

An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that’s as beautiful as it is powerful—a voice that’s by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.

Buy the book

Connect with Cyndy

Blog: mccollough.consulting/digitalmarketingblog/

 Mobile: 202.569.1675

Email: cyndy@mccollough.consulting

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Wonder Woman in Business, Vivian Hood

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Vivian Hood

Jaffe

As one of the owners of Jaffe, Vivian Hood balances her responsibilities between managing the agency’s relationships with our clients and staff and providing our clients with high-level and strategic PR account leadership, directing teams that execute and implement successful media relations programs. An experienced PR professional and one of Lawdragon's "100 Leading Legal Consultants and Strategists," Vivian delivers critical counsel surrounding high-profile litigation, sensitive matters, and crisis management. Clients rely on Vivian and trust her guidance when it matters most.

Serving as an integral senior member of a firm’s marketing department, Vivian takes pride in developing long-term relationships with clients, many of whom she has worked with for a minimum of five, 10, and more years. These partnerships have enabled Vivian to become a trusted advisor to many of the country’s top corporate firms. While some media relations programs focus on immediate results, others depend on long-range planning and benefit from working with someone who fully knows and understands a firm’s culture, philosophies, history and management style. That’s why Vivian’s enduring relationships with her clients allow her to manage effective media relations strategies that she adapts to fit each firm’s evolving needs.

Vivian is active with LMA International and LMA Southeast Region and an editorial board member for Marketing The Law Firm. She is a frequent speaker and published author on a range of marketing and PR, crisis communications, and media relations topics.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Vivian Hood

Connect with Vivian

Vivian Hood

Owner/CEO, Public Relations

Office: 904.220.1915

Mobile: 904.233.6565

Twitter: @vivianhood

LinkedIn: in/VivianHood

An award-winning, full-service marketing, branding and PR agency

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Wonder Woman in Business, Mary Kimber

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Mary Kimber

Mary Kimber is [a TOTALLY AWESOME HUMAN BEING — my insert] an entrepreneur and business owner, living and working in the mountains of southern Colorado. After working inside of law firms for nearly 40 years, she started her consulting company, Fort Kimber Partners, in 2014, providing marketing and business development strategies to lawyers and law firms. Mary also has a thriving art business, selling her watercolors and doing commissions via her web site, marykimber.com.

Growing up in Montana, Mary was surrounded by mountains, fields, wildlife and nature. One of five siblings in a boisterous, political family, her family encouraged self-expression and the family learned to speak up for and defend arguments over the day’s news at the family dinner table. Mary studied art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for two years, and transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After graduation, like many artists, a lifestyle was difficult to maintain without an income! Mary was fortunate to find a second career that allowed some creativity, in a more traditional setting, and she became a Marketing Director for large law firms. After a long career in the legal industry, Mary recently returned to painting from her home in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Mary is married to Miles and they have two daughters and a granddaughter – the joys of their lives! They taught their children, from an early age, to love reading, fishing, skiing, swimming, hiking and camping. Most importantly, along with an appreciation of nature and all of its bounty, they taught them to engage in the arts via music, theater, writing or other pursuits. Even though their daughters are grown and living in other states, they enjoy the family home, “Fort Kimber” and visit as often as possible.

Living in the mountains above Colorado’s San Luis Valley has afforded Mary the opportunity to participate in community art shows, such as the Monte Vista Crane Festival, as well as public art projects, notably, the 2019 Swoop of the Cranes. Her cards are for sale at the Narrow Gauge Bookstore Cooperative, in Alamosa, Colorado, where she has twice exhibited her paintings as their artist of the month. Her art has been published in the Conejos Writer’s Circle books in 2018 and 2019, as well as the on-line art and writing blog, Monologging. Mary believes that painting is a constantly evolving endeavor. While she primarily work in watercolor, she also uses charcoal, pastels, pen and ink, and in recent years, has been involved in printmaking.

Check out Mary’s Artwork

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MaryKimber.com

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Enjoy the podcast.

Mary Kimber

Connect with Mary

Mary C. Kimber, Principal

Fort Kimber Partners LLC

719.379.3802 - Direct

720.373.5067 - Mobile

www.fortkimberpartners.com

www.freemanmeansbusiness.com

www.freemanmeansbusiness.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Mindee Mosher

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Mindee Mosher

As an ICF-certified Leadership and Career Transformation Coach and Owner of Better With ROSE LLC, Mindee Mosher works with growing professionals to find potential, possibilities and greater fulfillment. Using principles and insights from her experience in Psychology, Education, Marketing and Business Development, Mindee provides the “Career Change Method” online course and coaching packets that are accessible to everyone, in addition to one on one virtual coaching. Mindee also serves as Director of Marketing at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP, a mid-size, regional law firm in the Mid-Atlantic.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Mindee Mosher

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