Career Corner: You got a job … How do you keep it (What to do in your first 6 months) (Sept. 11, 2024)
Recorded On: 09/11/2024
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You landed the job, but now the real work begins. This session equips in-house counsel with essential tools to navigate the transition, adapt to a new organizational culture, and develop leadership competencies crucial for success in the first crucial months. Gain insights on tailoring your onboarding approach, balancing learning and assertiveness, and overcoming common sticking points to hit the ground running.
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Christine Fredrick
Founder, Executive & Leadership Coach
Frederick Coaching Services, LLC
Christine is a certified executive and leadership coach. She specializes in career transitions and acceleration, empowering others to seize their potential and navigate change. Christine has 30 years of legal and compliance experience, holding senior executive positions in top-tier financial services companies. She has the vantage point of serving as in-house counsel and as a business client. Christine was known for her transformative leadership and strategic problem-solving skills. Her coaching spans industries, collaborating with lawyers, executives, and emerging talent. She partners with clients to transform and thrive during change with a clear pathway to success.

Jessica Hernandez
Attorney Coach and Author, “Let’s Coach All the Lawyers”
Jessica is a former practicing attorney with decades of experience coaching and counseling attorneys across a broad variety of environments, practice areas, and geographies. Jessica leverages this experience and her passion for coaching to help her clients find clarity to take action, tap into their unrealized potential for growth and leadership, or move into their next professional challenge with confidence.
Jessica previously served as Senior Compliance Officer and Associate Counsel at Laurus Funds, a hedge fund in New York, after practicing corporate and securities law with New York firms Schulte Roth & Zabel and Olshan Frome Wolosky. She then shifted her focus to attorney development, serving in roles with Georgetown University Law Center and Morrison Foerster. Jessica’s range of experience in the legal industry gives her a unique perspective into the challenges lawyers face on a day-to-day basis.
Jessica is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and Associate Certified Coach (ACC). Jessica is a co-author, with Jessica R. Natkin, of “Let’s Coach All the Lawyers: An Essential Primer for Professionals Developing Legal Talent,” published by NALP in 2021. Written for supervisors and managers in the legal industry, this book shares the coaching practices the authors have found to be most effective in developmental conversations. She is also the Co-Founder, with Jessica R. Natkin, of Law Career Center, a unique resource for attorneys working through career transitions.
Areas of coaching expertise include:
· Supervision and performance management
· Transitioning into a leadership role
· Managing challenging relationships and holding difficult conversations
· Career transitions, including determining next steps, networking, resume and job search materials, interviewing skills, and offer negotiation
· Building a “brand” and maintaining a positive reputation
· Delegation and time management skills
· Navigating work/life conflicts
Please use this link to schedule an initial consultation with Jessica.
More information about Jessica can be found on her bio and her website.

Matt Nolan
Assistant General Counsel
Honeywell
Accomplished legal and business executive with 18+ years' experience in-house and at a leading global law firm counseling large, mid-size and small companies, in both mature and start-up environments, held privately, by families or publicly traded, on enterprise-wide legal and business challenges and opportunities. Strategic leader and manager, forging relationships with a broad range of stakeholders and prioritizing cross-functional collaboration to achieve results.
