Anne Brafford

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 National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being. As part of her role with the ABA’s Presidential Working Group formed to investigate how legal employers can support healthy work environments, Anne authored the freely-available Well-Being Toolkit for Lawyers and Legal Employers. Anne is the author of an ABA-published book titled Positive Professionals. Anne has earned a Master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and is nearing completion of her doctoral work in positive organizational psychology at Claremont Graduate University. Anne has served as a teaching assistant to both Dr. Martin Seligman and Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the co-founders of positive psychology. Anne’s research focuses on lawyer thriving and includes topics like positive leadership, resilience, work engagement, meaningful work, motivation, inclusion, and retention of women lawyers.