The Leading Lawyer Program

Make the Best Career Move of Your Life.

Are you ready to step into your full potential and lead with confidence, clarity, and impact?

Presented by Being More Human, The Leading Lawyer Program is designed to help ambitious legal professionals like you elevate every aspect of your career. This isn’t just professional development, it’s career transformation.

In today’s legal landscape, technical skill isn’t enough. To truly lead, you need a powerful mix of commercial insight, emotional intelligence, personal resilience, and strategic leadership. That’s where we come in.

Over five months, you’ll work through a proven framework that builds:

  • Commercial Acumen

  • Emotional Intelligence

  • Resilience & Well-being

  • Leadership & Team Management

  • Influence & Negotiation Skills

Each topic is delivered monthly, so you can build real, lasting capability without the overwhelm.

Whether you're climbing the ladder, managing a team, or ready to shape the future of your firm, The Leading Lawyer helps you do it with clarity and purpose.

Not quite sure what your next step is?

Whether you're feeling stuck, exploring options, or just want to talk it through, this call is for you.

Book a Strategy Call for Emerging Legal Leaders with Michelle Crawford and get the clarity you need on your legal and leadership journey.

No pressure. No pitches. Just a conversation to help you figure out what’s right for you.

The Leading Lawyer Program

From October 2025

$3000 per person

Plus you'll receive 10 CLE points

Early bird pricing – save $500 when you register by August 25th.

Your Monthly Roadmap to Growth

Master the Skills That Move You Forward

Each month, we'll meet at 📍Inxx, Parry Street where you'll focus on one key topic (outlined below) to support steady, impactful growth throughout the program.

  • Measuring your leadership style
    Use personal data from HS LSI 1 & 2 for 360 feedback and learning.

  • Personal & Organisational Effectiveness
    Learn about time management, goal setting, aligning to strategy for business growth and getting the job done.

  • Leading across Generations and Developing Teams
    Creating high-performing teams by leveraging unique strengths

  • Leading as a Coach
    Elevating human potential, creating psychological safety in relationships and having difficult conversations.

  • Growing yourself
    Stress management, well-being strategies and improve emotional intelligence.

Michelle Crawford

Chief Conversationalist, Being More Human

Michelle Crawford is the driving force behind Being More Human and the architect of the Creating the Law Firm of the Future event.

With over two decades of experience across 20+ industries, Michelle has guided leaders through the complex terrain of organisational change, cultural transformation, and leadership development.

At this year's event, Michelle received outstanding feedback for her ability to challenge the status quo while creating a safe, engaging space for meaningful conversation. Her skill in drawing out what truly matters from leadership to innovation and culture made a lasting impression on attendees who left feeling inspired, grounded, and ready to lead change. Michelle doesn’t just talk about transformation, she facilitates it.

With a Master of Social Ecology and accreditations in LSI, MEWS, and Myers-Briggs, she brings both heart and rigour to her work. She believes the legal profession is not just ready, but overdue for a more human approach to leadership. If you’re looking for someone who understands both the people and the systems that drive high-performing organisations, Michelle is the person you need.

Add in her trademark wit, lived experience, and genuine care for people, and you’ve got a guide who can help you shape a firm where leadership, innovation, and culture truly align.

Need to Chat? Book a call with Michelle

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We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land and pay our respects to the elders both past,

present and future for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Aboriginal Australia.

We must always remember that under the concrete and asphalt this land is, was and always will be traditional Aboriginal land.