Per, Global Senior Group Legal Counsel for Value Protection at Ericsson based in London, reflects on some key habits for better sleep before highlighting the importance of peer discussion in breakout rooms during our online sessions.

Head of Legal at Howden Group, Michaela shares her three takeaways on our Q2 online session for the UK chapter, the need to reset legacy habits, the importance of intentionality and preparedness for sleep, and the wider context of acknowledging a busy legal life.

Sarah Gray, a Strategic Group GC & Company Secretary, most recently at Post Office Ltd shares her principal takeaways from the Hacking Habits workshop on 6th November around system design and her own recent changes around nightly gratitude.

General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers today face relentless pressure. It can feel easier to borrow the language of others—or even lose your voice altogether, retreating inward when the pressure mounts. Yet clarity, connection, and resilience in leadership begin with that voice. The “vowels of leadership” offer a practical framework to rediscover it: five mindsets that help legal leaders move beyond survival mode, find the confidence to lead, and the openness to draw strength from their teams.

How would you describe the work of a lawyer? Meticulous, ethical, analytical, adaptive, pragmatic? But ask a roomful of lawyers and another set of words might surface just as quickly: overworked, stretched, reactive, isolated. To unlock the strengths, and minimise the pressure points I want to propose borrowing a mindset from another discipline entirely: design.