简介
As chief performance officer, Lisa Brown leverages her problem-solving, project management and consensus-building skills, and her background in firm management and as a practicing lawyer, to enhance the performance of individual partners and principals, practice groups and industry teams, and the firm. She collaborates with firm leadership to implement Faegre Baker Daniels’ key strategic initiatives and manage change through effective planning, communication and educational programming for partners and principals.
Talent and Leadership Experience
For more than a decade, Lisa was the chief talent partner at Schiff Hardin LLP. Lisa designed and implemented path-breaking talent management systems for lawyers —including professional development, practice development, recruitment and diversity — that propelled the firm to national recognition in attorney satisfaction and diversity. She also supported the firm’s top leadership on its broader strategic and operational initiatives.
Lisa shares her expertise on lawyer development as a featured speaker at conferences and law schools nationwide.
Litigation Experience
Before becoming Schiff Hardin’s chief talent partner, Lisa was a partner litigating complex commercial and class action cases.资质
执业资格
Illinois
出庭资格
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
证书
HR Certification Institute — Senior Professional in Human Resources Certification (SPHR)教育
University of Chicago Law School
J.D. (1995)
Wesleyan University
B.A. Phi Beta Kappa (1990)
见解和活动
其他角度
- Strengthening Recruiting and Interviewing Practices
Hiring Partner Conference, National Association for Law Placement (NALP) Foundation, Houston, 2018 - Charting a Career Path and Authentic Leadership Styles
Women in Law Summit, Women’s Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association, Chicago, 2018 - An Innovative Approach to Hiring Lawyers: One Firm’s New Program Reflects Its Firm Values and Eliminates Implicit Bias
Symposia on the State of Diversity in the Legal Profession, Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession (IILP), Chicago and Seattle, 2017 - Data-Driven Recruiting
Metrics, Diversity and Law Conference of the Research Group on Legal Diversity, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 2016
领导力和社区
职业协会
- National Association of Legal Career Professionals (NALP)
- Professional Development Consortium (PDC)
市民活动
- The Posse Foundation, a nationwide college access and youth leadership development program — Advisory Council Board, Career Coach, Interviewer
- University of Chicago Law School — Advisory Council; Women’s Mentoring Program; Alumnae Advisory Board
荣誉
- Illinois Leading Lawyers, 2017-18