Meet your speakers
Here are your speakers for the 2024 Legal Growth Conference
Tracey Moloney - The Legal Queen
Tracey Moloney - The Legal Queen has built an incredible social media following with over 551k followers on TikTok alone. She’ll join us to share some insight and experience on her journey as a lawyer, her experiences with social media, the impact it's had on her business, what lessons she's learnt, and she’ll be sharing advice for practitioners in the room. She has an incredible following, produces great content and has developed a recognisable brand. It's also really interesting that Tracey's brand is different to the trading name/style of the business so she’ll share how this was done.
Tom Mallens
Tom got started in sales more than 10 years ago and despite doing well, he got fed-up with three things:
– Enthusiastic prospects who quickly vanished the minute they got a quote or proposal. 🏃🏻♂️💨
– Constant pressure to discount that eroded margins in even our biggest accounts. 💸
– Being treated like a dodgy salesperson, rather than the trusted advisor I wanted to be. 🤝
After years selling raw materials to UK manufacturers and starting my own business, he stumbled onto a copy of David Sandler's book 'You Can't Teach A Kid To Ride A Bike At A Seminar'.
Over the coming months, everything changed. His revenue, profitability and take-home pay went up dramatically. And, more importantly, he started to enjoy selling more than ever.
Today, he work with owners, directors and entrepreneurs who are ambitious and doing well but aware that sales is a bottleneck to growth in their business. Join him for a talk on sales.
Tom Stansfield
Founder of The Legal Growth Conference and Awards
As well as being the founder of Legal Growth, Tom is also the founder of another agency - Lincolnshire Marketing. Tom has been in Legal Marketing for 10+ years and loves the strategy of business growth. His aim is to help as many businesses as possible to grow using organic or affordable methods as possible. With a vision, Tom and his team launched the first Legal Growth Conference and Awards and we’re delighted to be back with a second. In Tom’s short segment you’ll get some actionable tips to implement in your legal business for growth.
Dan Temple
Meet Dan. Dan is your event compere. Dan’s role as founder of Cobalt Human Solutions sees him growing business resilience by transforming trust in teams. He does this through a mix of increasing performance by understanding human factors but he’s also a speaker on mental health & wellbeing. He’s a firm believer that humans are not the problem, they are the solution.
We’re immensely pleased to have Dan back compering our event.
Andy Nisevic
Andy Nisevic is the founder & Director of One Degree, a leadership development company specializing in helping SMEs hire, keep and develop highly capable staff.
Before starting One Degree, Andy was a full-time regular in the RAF, for 23-yrs. He was a leader for over 20 years, responsible for developing leaders for over 15-yrs, and in his last role, he was part of the executive team responsible for provision of RAF wide leadership training.
Andy has been a trainer for over 20-yrs, a mentor for over 15, and 2-yrs ago added professional coaching to his skills portfolio. He passionately disagrees with common leadership training that’s accredited to a national qualification. He feels this encourages a “one-size-fits-all” approach that simply doesn’t work. He’s also resolute in his belief that “Leadership & Management” training, when wrapped together is ineffective. They’re 2 completely different skill sets, that require a bespoke approach. The only overlap is they both involve people; it’s like saying that an archaeologist and paleontologist can be trained together because they both involve digging old things up from the ground!
Andy is an advocate of a bespoke, holistic, approach to leadership development that looks at the individual’s reality. Their personality, their communication styles, their strengths portfolio, and those of their team members. He combines training, coaching, mentoring, psychometric assessment, and team performance work to create leaders capable of rising to any leadership challenge. This will give businesses leaders who create cultures where employees feel engaged, and are fulfilled, highly resilient, and high performing.
Kate Strawson
As one of the co-founders of Shooting Star, Kate Strawson has worked on many of the agency’s key accounts over the past 17 years including Andrew & Co Solicitors, Midlands Enterprise Universities, Andrew Grove & Company Solicitors and the Greater Lincolnshire LEP.
Kate is a qualified journalist who has worked in print and broadcast as well as in public and private sector PR. She completed her degree in journalism in 2001 and worked in PR for a bespoke furniture manufacturer and international retailer and as a journalist at Lincs FM Group before moving to the University of Lincoln as press officer in 2005.
Her talk is ‘Have Your Cake and Eat It: The Power of PR and Reputation Management’
Your panel of experts
Darren Leggett
Your Panel Discussion Host
Darren Leggett has known Tom for a number of years and has been a supporter of the Legal Growth Conference since day one. Darren is the Panel Discussion Host and will be steering conversations with our panel of experts for maximum benefit for our audience. Darren’s business - Property Ladder Group strive to put an end to executor stress with probate property solutions. Darren also runs The Synergy Conference which will be back next year for Synergy 24, something not to miss.
Jade Gani
CEO & Head of Private Client
Jade is a founder and CEO of Circe Law. Having spent most of her career managing Private Client teams across the home counties, she brings a wealth of experience to the team.
Jade shows a real passion for support older and vulnerable clients within the community and is heavily involved with various local charities and initiatives. She is a fully accredited member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (“STEP), a fully accredited member and Director for Solicitors for the Elderly (“SFE”) and a Founder and Director of The Wishing Will Foundation.
Jade is also passionate about creating a supportive and inclusive environment for the team to flourish here at Circe Law.
Some of Jade’s Achievements include:
Presiding Judge for the STEP global Private Client Awards 2022 & 2023;
STEP global PCA “Younger Practitioner of the Year” 2021 winner;
British Wills & Probate Awards “Industry Champion” 2021 finalist;
Probate Research Awards “Best Community Contribution” (team) winner;
British Wills & Probate Awards Younger Practitioner of the Year” 2020 winner;
Guest writer for Today’s Wills & Probate publication; and
Featured writer for LawSkills.
Kieran Osborne
Chief Executive Officer of Squiggle Consult
Kieran began his career as a Business Relationship Manager with Lloyds Bank, but in 2017 was made redundant. He was headhunted by an accountancy firm to open a legal arm of their business and this triggered an interest in Estate Planning.
He began to think about the bigger picture and started looking more closely at the gap in the market.
It was clear to him there was a need for proactive legacy planning; a need for someone who could really talk to people about what their hopes were for their loved ones after they have gone.
In June 2017 he formed Squiggle, gaining valuable experience in a wide range of legal disciplines, however focusing mainly on Estate Planning.
Throughout his career, he has developed a significant wealth of experience helping clients with a whole range of issues from wills and estates to complex tax planning for high net worth individuals, and financial advice through one of his many trusted partners.
Kieran has also set up a charity called Squiggle Giving and has developed an app for instruction taking which has reduced the time it takes to draft legal documents and increased the amount of time his team can spend with their clients.
Emma Easton
Founder and Chief Bolloxologist at Business Bollox
Emma is the founder and Chief Bolloxologist at Business Bollox, a marketing agency in Lincoln. We’re delighted to have her on our panel of growth experts and she’ll be able to share her insight and guidance on how to grow a department, or legal business using her years of marketing experience.
Katie Hanson
Legal Services Director at Prestige Legal Services
Katie is the Legal Services Director at Prestige Legal Services. With years of experience and being full TEP she has mentored and guided her team to support well over 100 associates across the country. Her business acts as a back office drafting solution for lots of estate planning professionals and financial service professionals and she will be sharing her knowledge and experience with us during the panel discussion.