President Heidi Alexander is Massachusetts’ first Director of the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being. Before assuming that role, Heidi served as the Deputy Director of Massachusetts Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers and led its Law Office Management Assistance Program, practiced law at a small firm in Boston, and clerked for a Justice on the New…
President-Elect Kansas Lawyers Assistance Program, Executive Director, Topeka, KS Danielle Hall has served as the Executive Director for the Kansas Lawyers Assistance Program since December 2019. Prior to her appointment, Danielle served as a Deputy Disciplinary Administrator for the State of Kansas where she investigated and prosecuted disciplinary cases before the Kansas Supreme Court, assisted with Client…
Immediate Past President Chris L. Newbold is Executive Vice President of ALPS, the nation’s largest direct writer of lawyers’ professional liability insurance, where he oversees business development, sales strategy and is ALPS’ chief liaison into the bar association. Additionally, Chris is a recognized strategic planning facilitator in the bar association and bar foundation worlds, a…
(At-Large Director) Founder & Principal @ Cultivate Tara Owens Antonipillai is the founder of Cultivate. She is a well-being consultant, speaker, teacher, and author. Tara combines her unique expertise as a practicing attorney and a positive psychology practitioner to help professionals, teams, and organizations thrive. Tara also helps law firms and other organizations develop and…
Secretary Hispanic National Bar Association–Co-Chair Los Angeles, CA Raul Ayala is the collaborative courts supervising attorney for the Federal Public Defender’s Office in the Central District of California. As such, he has been assigned as the lead deputy federal public defender for each of the Conviction and Sentence Alternatives (CASA) Program courts—two in Los Angeles…
VP of Programming Anne is a former equity partner at Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius LLP and the founder of Aspire, an education and consulting firm for the legal profession. Anne is the past Chair of the ABA Law Practice Division’s Attorney Well-Being Committee and was the Editor-in-Chief and co-author of the 2017 report of the…
VP Policy Bree Buchanan is founding co-chair of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-being and is a co-author of its groundbreaking 2017 report, The Path to Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change. In December 2020, she was appointed Board President of the newly formed Institute for Well-being in Law, a new nonprofit dedicated to…
VP Communications President of Tapestry ADR, a NAM Division Marcie Dickson is a leading voice on diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging in alternative dispute resolution. She is the President of Tapestry ADR, a NAM division, and an executive leadership team member. At Tapestry ADR, Dickson focuses on developing and promoting a wide range of…
At-Large Director Founder & Owner, Decipher Investigative Intelligence As founder and CEO of Decipher, Michael helps his clients create safer, more productive, and more profitable workplaces by equipping them with investigative intelligence. He believes that empowering people inside firms to make informed hiring decisions, based on intelligence-driven transparency, is both the right thing to do…
IWIL Executive Director Owner / Principal, RavenWork Consulting & Executive Coaching, Portland, OR Denise Gaskin, Ph.D., PCC is a seasoned executive coach, culture and change management advisor who helps individuals and firms achieve specific, measurable goals. Denise’s world class solutions help organizations identify, measure, and connect culture and health to a stronger and healthier bottom…
VP Law Schools Professor, Suffolk Law School, Boston, MA Professor Shailini George teaches legal writing, and her scholarship focuses in the areas of lawyer well-being, mindfulness, and the cognitive science of learning. She is the author of The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well (Carolina Academic Press), as well as the co-author…
VP DEI State Bar of Georgia Wellness Committee–Chair, Atlanta, GA Javoyne Hicks serves as chair of the State Bar of Georgia Attorney Wellness Committee and is a member of the Lawyers Assistance Program and the Suicide Awareness and Prevention Committee. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Georgia State Bar’s Board…
(At-Large Director) IP Partner, Wiggin and Dana Michael focuses on all areas of intellectual property law, providing his clients with full- service IP expertise that ranges from patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation to IP-related transactions – including licensing and monetization – to helping companies to protect and reap maximum value from their own…
(At-Large Director) Founder & Co-CEO, Loeb Leadership Natalie Loeb is the founder and Co-CEO of Loeb Leadership, a preeminent leadership coaching and development company based in the United States with over 100 consultants across the U.S. and Europe. Natalie is an entrepreneur and a female business leader who has built a family owned and operated…
VP of Research and Scholarship Dr. Matthew Thiese’s research focuses on the overlap between a person’s job and their health. This includes everything from musculoskeletal disorders like Low Back Pain or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, to motor vehicle crashes, to COVID-19, to mental well-being. He is interested in identification of potential risk factors, interventions to prevent injury…
Treasurer Robin Wolpert is an accomplished appellate practitioner, business litigator, and white-collar criminal defense attorney at Sapientia Law Group in Minneapolis. Her 20-year career began in BigLaw, and she went on to serve as a prosecutor and Senior Counsel of Compliance & Business Conduct at 3M. Robin uses her unique blend of government, private-sector, and…
