Acumen Leadership
Ideas about life, law, learning and the people who practise it.
Law Life
We get it - this law gig can be tough. The weight of expectations of others our clients, our team, our bosses and ourselves is huge. The perfectionism can be crippling; the hours can be tough, it can be exhausting keeping
it all together.
LEARN
We are all about everyday being a learning day, developing learning cultures and learning for fun (not because you have to), learning for a different perspective.
LEAD
Our perspective on leadership encourages us to think differently, learn how we engage with others, learn what drives us and manage those who see the world differently to ultimately bring us one step closer to a brighter future for our legal profession.
What is Acumen Leadership
Ideas about life, law, learning and the people who practise it.
Acumen began with a curiosity about leadership in law. The idea was simple: Awareness, Curiosity, Understanding, Management, Education and What’s Next. Over time, the questions have become broader.
- How do we become better at what we do without losing ourselves in the process?
- What makes a good lawyer, beyond knowing the law?
- How do curiosity, reflection and self-awareness change the way we work with other people?
- And what might we do differently if we were willing to question some of the things our profession has long taken for granted?
Perhaps Acumen was always about more than leadership. These days, I think of it as being about life in law. A place to think, write, wonder and occasionally disappear down a rabbit hole.
Writing & ideas
The Acumen Library is a collection of writing about law, people, leadership, learning and the profession.
Some pieces are practical. Some are personal. Some follow a rabbit hole simply because there was something interesting down there. The collection has grown and changed over time, as my thinking has too.
About Acumen
Acumen started as a place to explore leadership in law - particularly the things we aren't necessarily taught when we learn how to be lawyers.
I’m still interested in those things.
But I’m increasingly interested in the bigger questions around the people who practise law: how we learn, how we think, how we understand ourselves and others, and how the profession shapes us along the way.
Acumen is where I explore some of those ideas. There is no publishing schedule here. I write when there is something I think is worth saying.
