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Throughout his career, Robert Falk’s legal expertise has helped advance important health care and social causes. Falk is a health care attorney with 15 years of private practice experience at prominent national law firms and over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector. As Chief Legal and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Falk uses his legal expertise to influence our public policy advocacy efforts, enabling Truth Initiative to lead policy change strategies at federal, state, and local levels. Prior to joining Truth Initiative, Falk served for 11 years as the general counsel and corporate secretary of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization. During his tenure, he supported the organization’s work on policy changes such as the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” repeal and the passage of marriage equality and employment nondiscrimination legislation by state legislatures.  Falk, recipient of the Human Rights Campaign’s Ally of Justice award, advised both the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation on legal issues including election and campaign finance law, nonprofit tax issues, real estate, human resource matters, and intellectual property.  Prior to his work at the Human Rights Campaign, Falk served as general counsel of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, an HIV/AIDS social service agency, and as acting general counsel at D.C. General Hospital. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Princeton University.

Nina Blackshear is a Certified Executive and Leadership Coach, TEDx speaker, and attorney who is passionate about helping individuals to realize their full potential, liberated from the frantic, ceaselessly striving posture of “fake it ‘til you make it.” She is always thrilled and humbled to see someone truly recognize their intrinsic gifts and all they are capable of achieving for the first time.  

While her practice is inclusive and open to all, Nina focuses particularly on offering a safe space for successful women to overcome limiting beliefs, lead with confidence, and level up to “What’s Next.”  If you’ve ever felt unseen, unheard, ignored, overlooked, marginalized, undervalued, unrecognized or “othered” as you pursued your career goals, Nina gets it: she used to be her own ideal client.  

Nina understands from personal experience that change isn’t always easy - but it’s almost always worth it.  In her career she’s had to shift, pivot and reinvent herself any number of times to overcome obstacles and find her path in roles like corporate attorney, major gifts fundraiser, marketing communications manager,  HR employee relations specialist, Realtor, and judicial clerk. While her work has spanned corporate, government, academic, non-profit and entrepreneurial settings, the common thread was always coaching and counseling colleagues and partners up and down the org chart - and around the globe. 

Each transformation made Nina stronger and more resilient, increased her emotional intelligence, and resulted in her genuinely unshakeable confidence that she can always meet the challenge of “What’s Next.”

She provides executive and leadership coaching to senior-level and C-Suite clients across industries, and is regularly sought out to speak on an array of topics for workshops, offsite retreats, webinars, podcasts and conferences. 

Nina earned her BA in Political & Social Thought from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.  She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Strategic Communication & Cross-Cultural Leadership from Temple University’s Klein College of Media & Communication.  

You can learn more about Nina and all she offers at www.ninablackshear.com.

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