The Secret to Career Transitions That Are Epic

This program empowers attorneys to break free from professional stagnation and explore diverse career opportunities aligned with their personal values. Led by Scott Mason, the program unravels the challenges lawyers face when contemplating career change. Additionally, it delves into the personal and professional consequences of remaining disconnected while presenting a systematic approach to understanding one's identity, leveraging legal skills across diverse paths, and crafting an actionable plan for a fulfilling career transition.

This course is designed to guide attorneys through a transformative journey, helping them break free from professional constraints and embark on a fulfilling career path aligned with their authentic selves—that is epic.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize risks of unfulfilling career paths by identifying five dangers associated with staying on an unfulfilling career trajectory.
Navigate risk aversion in career transition by understanding how inherent risk aversion in attorneys can hinder professional and personal satisfaction.
Disentangle professional role and identity by learning the importance of separating professional role and identity during a career transition and the practical steps to achieve it.
Gain insights into building a comprehensive Professional Freedom Action Plan tailored to individual goals.

Topics covered include:

Professional Development Law Practice

Agenda:

Introductory Overview

A brief introduction to the speaker, his background and experiences, and what career transitions can mean for lawyers

Why This Course Matters

The dangers of professional boredom, discontent, or emptiness and the importance of having a process

Who This Course Is For

Attorneys seeking to successfully transition into lawyer-leaders roles
Unhappy attorneys seeking a different career path
Lawyers seeking a non-traditional career path or interested in entrepreneurship

About the Speaker

Scott Mason’s qualifications and perspective

Risk Dynamics: Legal Practice & Professional Transitions

A lawyer’s relationship to risk in practice may have a dispositional impact that can make career transitions particularly complicated for attorneys
Areas where that dispositional impact can play out
Tips to manage this while assessing a major career transition

Navigating Your Career Transition: A Four-Step Process

Personal Myths; Professional Outcomes

Our professional narratives drive us to or away from success
Explore how your professional narrative is keeping you where you are and what elements of that narrative are keeping you unhappy

Rewriting Your Professional Framework

Develop a vision of your new life by identifying and documenting “inner relics” from your past, do the “Purpose Exercise,” and put together a Strength-Building plan
Identify and document physical, mental, ethics/values-based reasons that you will be unwilling/unable to pursue opportunity
Put together a professional Vision Statement

Unlocking Your Charisma

Why charisma matters and what it is
Self-assess your communication strengths and identify areas to build on and improve

Building a Professional Freedom Plan, Including Ethical Considerations

Build the roadmap taking you from where you are now to where you need to be
Ensure any/all ethical obligations for the jurisdictions in which you are licensed are addressed
Consider Rules 1.4, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.6, 1.9, 1.11, 5.5

Key Takeaways

Questions & Answers (as time permits)

Duration of this webinar: 60 minutes

Originally broadcast: August 07, 2024 11:00 AM PT

Webinar Highlights

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00:00 Introduction and Speaker Background

Scott Mason is introduced as the speaker, an attorney and transformational executive leadership coach. Scott discusses the importance of career transitions and asks participants to reflect on their current career satisfaction. He warns of the dangers of career dissatisfaction, including anxiety and lack of focus, which can hinder personal and professional growth.

06:53 Understanding Career Dissatisfaction

Scott shares his personal experience with career transitions and the challenges he faced. He emphasizes the importance of having a documented process for career transitions to avoid mistakes. The session is aimed at attorneys seeking leadership roles or non-traditional career paths. Scott discusses the impact of risk aversion in the legal profession and its effects on career transitions.

18:05 Navigating Career Transitions

Scott explains the concept of personal myths and their impact on professional identity. He stresses the importance of separating one's role as a lawyer from their identity to enable career transitions. A growth mindset is essential for engaging in a career transition process. Scott outlines the first step of identifying and obliterating toxic personal myths. He encourages self-reflection to understand values and purpose-driven lessons from career struggles.

27:28 Building a New Professional Framework

Scott advises on building a new professional framework by identifying transferable skills and core qualities. He recommends speaking to trusted individuals to gain insights into one's strengths. The purpose exercise involves connecting skills and experiences to a larger service related to values. Scott suggests creating a strength-building plan to elevate skills to a superpower level. Developing a vision statement for one's life is crucial, considering personal non-negotiables and financial values.

34:39 Developing Charisma and Networking Skills

Scott discusses the importance of charisma in career transitions and networking skills. Charisma is defined as the ability to command attention for positive outcomes. He advises reviewing communication skills and refining one's message to develop a mission statement. Networking is a critical skill for career transitions, and Scott recommends resources for mastering it.

42:57 Creating a Professional Freedom Plan

Scott emphasizes the need to identify problems that one's career transition can solve. He advises using legal persuasion skills to position oneself as the best solution to these problems. Creating a formal action plan with goals, timelines, and accountability is essential. Scott recommends declaring one's future role to create pressure and dismantle toxic myths.

48:44 Key Takeaways and Q&A

Scott highlights the importance of maintaining ethical obligations during career transitions. He shares a personal story to emphasize the dangers of an unfulfilling career path. A four-step process can help disentangle professional roles from identity and assess core skills and values. Networking and charisma are crucial for building a roadmap to an epic future. Scott invites participants to connect with him for further discussion and resources on career transitions.

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Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credits

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California CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Earn Credit Until: June 30, 2026

South Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Difficulty: All Levels

Earn Credit Until: December 31, 2025

North Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Earn Credit Until: February 28, 2026

This presentation is approved for one hour of General CLE credit in California, South Carolina (all levels), and North Carolina.

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Speaker

Scott Mason Executive Leadership Coach

Scott Mason is the Myth Slayer: an attorney and transformational executive leadership coach for lawyers looking to uplevel their careers or leadership skill — and have a future that is epic. Based on his trailblazing signature framework, Scott will help you or the leaders in your firm/organization become:

More connected to themselves, each other, and your mission.
Creative — leading to innovation and consistent achievement of organizational goals.
Resilient, especially when times are tough.