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Bench Strength Advisors helps your high performing lawyers become the leaders your firm actually needs.
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> Our Approach
We work at the intersection of law‑firm strategy and psychology—closing the gap between how gifted lawyers see themselves as leaders and how everyone else experiences them.​​
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Do Your Best Lawyers & Rainmakers See Themselves How Others See Them?
Many brilliant lawyers have a blind spot: they overestimate how well they lead and underestimate their impact on others. Bench Strength Advisors helps close this gap with honest, structured feedback and the psychological support needed to hear it—and act on it.
Are they hitting invisible psychological ceilings?
High-potential lawyers face a litany of inner obstacles: fear of failure, imposter syndrome, risk aversion, chronic stress, and a deep need to stay in control. These patterns quietly limit their ability to develop as leaders. We help them see and work through these barriers.
Are they still thinking like individual contributors?
The mindset that produced success as a lawyer—mastery, control, risk‑avoidance—often works against success as a leader. Leadership requires embracing uncertainty, taking smart risks, and inspiring others around a shared direction. To grow, lawyers must move beyond “my work, my clients, my billable hours” and think institutionally. We help them make that shift.
Left unaddressed, these patterns drive under‑delegation and burnout, a weaker culture, and higher attrition among your most promising lawyers.
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​How do we help?
Bench Strength Advisors helps good lawyers become respected leaders by tackling the psychological barriers, and mindset shifts, traditional leadership programs tend to overlook.
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Coaching
Our team of leadership advisors offers one‑on‑one, purposeful coaching to high‑potential lawyers and partners. We act as catalysts to a leader’s growth by facilitating stakeholder conversations (360 feedback), surfacing blind spots and core patterns, and supporting lawyer‑leaders as they practice new behaviors and mindsets in a safe, confidential environment.
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Action Learning
Action learning is an experiential leadership development program where small teams of lawyers analyze, collaborate, and solve real problems facing their firm. It is both a change engine and an opportunity for reflection and growth. Each action learning program is built by a team of former executive educators at Columbia and Harvard Business School, linking leadership development directly to issues that matter to your firm.
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The Mindset Challenge
The very mindset that helped your lawyers succeed in the past may now be holding them back. Rising stars need to rethink old assumptions and habits—that’s easier said than done. Our team takes your lawyers through a rigorous process to help them prepare psychologically for increasing leadership responsibility, so they can delegate more effectively, develop others, and lead beyond their own book of business.
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​Meet the Team Leaders​
Law firm experienced + Clinical grade depth
Jeffrey Cohn,
Executive Coach
Jeffrey is a former fellow at the CEO Leadership Institute and case facilitator at Harvard Business School, where he helped write the first leadership case study on Apple. He has served as an executive coach and succession advisor at Spencer Stuart and Heidrick & Struggles, working with CEOs, general counsel, and senior partners on leadership, culture, and succession. Recent articles include “How Yale Law School Is Becoming the Next Harvard Business School” and “Why CEOs Should Model Vulnerability.”
Dr. Peter Finkelstein,
Case Facilitator
Peter Finkelstein, M.D. is a physician‑psychiatrist and organizational consultant who has spent more than 25 years helping senior leaders and teams change how they work together to improve performance. He has designed and led action‑learning and leadership programs at Stanford and Harvard, and advised executives across technology, law, pharmaceutical, media, and industrial companies from start‑ups to the Fortune 500.
Dr. Carrie Muchow,
Psychologist
Dr. Carrie Muchow is a sought‑after executive coach, cognitive‑behavioral therapist, and professional assessor. She received her Ph.D. with honors in psychology, with an emphasis in neuroscience, from Columbia University. Carrie specializes in helping high‑potential lawyer‑leaders manage stress, anxiety, uncertainty, and perfectionism, and has helped global talent consultancies create proprietary assessment tools.
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​A Few Client Testimonials
Practice Group Lead, AmLaw 100
"We brought in Bench Strength Advisors after trying out a slew of other leadership advisory firms and elite executive education programs—but behavior never changed. Their mindset challenge is totally different...and it's gold.”
Global Managing Partner, AmLaw 100
"We saw a real shift in how key partners delegated, developed associates, and collaborated across practices—and our lateral integration outcomes improved noticeably within a year."
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​Our Leadership Podcast​
We host candid podcast conversations on leadership with the world’s top thinkers and practitioners—from Amy Edmondson to Am Law chairs and star trial lawyers
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