Morning Keynote Session
Reflections on Resiliency: Leading Boldly Through Uncharted Waters
Loeb Leadership senior consultants Taris Mullins and Mark Schall
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Over the last year leaders across our field have demonstrated their agile response to our new ways of working in the midst of the global pandemic. Every firm has risen to this challenge and are now keenly focused on the future of legal management and client engagement. This conversation with Mark Schall and Taris Mullins will illustrate the power of leadership in the face of uncertainty and share compelling insights and stories on how your firm can create a sustainable strategy to reimagine the legal landscape for the future to come. This session will equip you with immediate skills you can implement to advance your goals and offer innovative approaches to address the complex problems we will be charged to solve.
CLM® Application Credit for Functional Specialists: 1 hr (60 min) in the category Legal Industry/ Business Management OR CLM® Recertification Credit: 1 hr (60 min) in the Subject Area of Legal Industry/ Business Management.
Taris G. Mullins is a seasoned Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Facilitator and Organizational Change Consultant working in partnership with multiple organizations to design and implement strategies for their workforce. He currently serves as the Senior Manager for Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, and Talent Management at TeleSign and oversees global engagement initiatives for the 500+ person organization. Taris’ consulting practice includes clients across a variety of industries including education technology, finance, law enforcement, engineering, and marketing organizations. As a diversity and inclusion professional, Taris leverages over a decade of experience facilitating and directing organizational learning and strategy. Taris is a trained people manager and has harnessed his skills to lead teams in the public and private sectors. He has coordinated staff development programs impacting groups from 5-500+ employees and integrates a responsive and relational approach to his practice.
Taris is an experienced leader around diversity initiatives such as unconscious bias, leadership coaching, data analysis, inclusive hiring practices, and change management. He has a demonstrated record of diversity thought leadership with eight publications and 14+ national presentations on a range of topics related to inclusion and social justice. Beyond this, Taris has co-led the creation and expansion of Employee Resource Groups serving Staff of Color and LGBTQIA-persons in multiple organizations. Taris holds his B.A. in English from Virginia Tech, his M.A. in Higher Education & Student Affairs from The Ohio State University, and a Certificate in Diversity & Inclusion from Cornell University. A native of the Washington, D.C. metro area, Taris is an avid runner and lives in Harlem with his dog Riley.
Mark Schall is dedicated to assisting individuals and organizations achieve their highest possible level of excellence and effectiveness. Mark is a specialist in the area of human relations and interpersonal communications. He is a globally recognized expert coach, facilitator, educator, and motivational speaker. He serves as a consultant and coach to managers and teams in a wide variety of organizations both in the private and government sectors. In his training classes, he uses a unique blend of instructional teaching and motivational speaking providing dynamic seminars focusing on the areas of leadership, interpersonal communication, personal effectiveness, goal setting, organizational change, diversity, workplace harassment and more.
A specialty area of his is the use of live interactive drama and theater as a training tool. Mark has been speaking and facilitating programs (for groups and individuals) around the country on many sensitive organizational, interpersonal and personal issues, as well as coaching managers, executives, and front-line employees at some of the nation’s top companies and government organizations. Clients include Toys ‘R’ Us, GAP Inc., American Express, Mass Mutual Financial, Lutron, Kraft Foods, NASA, Bristol Myers-Squibb, the US Department of Health & Human Services and the US Department of Defense.
Clients who have worked with Mark report having achieved several critical accomplishments in their lives from getting a promotion, improving communications with colleagues, supervisors and direct reports, changing careers, and starting a business, to improving or saving a failing relationship, and enhancing communication with children and family. They also report that the results they experience are long lasting, continuing to impact their lives long after they have completed their work with him.
Mark is certified by The Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and is an International Coach Federation (ICF) credentialed coach. As a certified coach training program instructor for 16 years, Mark has trained over 5,000 certified coaches internationally. He received his BA in Psychology from SUNY Stony Brook and his Master’s Degree in Counseling/Human Development from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP).