Since forming Pinstripe, Debra has worked with more than 3,000 clients and has provided over 38,000 hours of executive coaching and training services with a focus on business development and practice management coaching. Building on more than 35 years of legal and business experience, Debra partners with legal and business clients in individual and group coaching sessions that help them realize theirprofessional and personal goals. Pinstripe’s clients want to attract new business opportunities, grow existing relationships, manage time effectively, develop talent, demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, adjust to business change and conduct business strategically. Debra has expertise helping lawyers and executives jump-start their business development efforts, or transition into new roles and responsibilities. For more than 12 years, Debra coached lawyers from around the globe in individual sessions and workshops during the two half-year and annual congresses of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) and for several years, coached attendees of the Spring and Fall conferences of the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association (ABA YLD). Building on her strengths in coaching women lawyers, executives, professional service providers and entrepreneurs, Debra has facilitated more than 75 women’s peer groups, seminars, workshops, and retreats. Debra also leverages years of experience coaching professionals as they become parents. Debra collaborates with her clients before and after childbirth and after they return to work, assisting them to balance personaland professional responsibilities.

Tasneem K. Khokha has spent over 20 years as an executive leader in the professional services space working with lawyers and other professionals to grow their businesses by helping firms make the most of their relationships with their clients, their talent, and their recruits.

Prior to joining GrowthPlay, Tasneem was a partner and the Director of Marketing at Katten Muchin Rosenman, where she led the firm’s marketing and business development team. Tasneem previously practiced law in the corporate department of Latham & Watkins and the restructuring group of Kirkland & Ellis.

Clients value Tasneem’s prior experience as a practicing professional and executive leader in professional services organizations, as well as her relentlessly optimistic approach. Tasneem speaks frequently on topics related to new business development, selling professional services, marketing, client experience, leadership, diversity, and women in professional services. She has spoken at several law schools, including Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, University of Chicago Law School, and University of Illinois College of Law.

Tasneem graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and earned her Bachelor’s degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago. Tasneem serves on the board of directors of Latinos Progresando, a Chicago-based nonprofit that provides immigration legal services.

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