VLSB+C Webinar - Why kindness matters for early career lawyers and their supervisors
Description
The Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner invite early career lawyers and their supervisors to join us for a CPD webinar with Dr Nicki Macklin, a researcher, advisor, and speaker focused on the human side of organisational performance.
Recent findings from the Legal Services Research Centre tell us that that while uncivil behaviour is common across the Victorian legal profession, young and emerging lawyers experience higher rates of workplace incivility.
In this 1-hour, CPD-approved online webinar, Nicki Macklin will take supervisors and supervisees through her research and provide practical examples of how to weave kindness into the fabric of your supervisor/supervisee relationships, in ways that improve wellbeing and legal practice.
Kerri-anne Millard, Executive Director of Policy and Outreach at the VLSB+C, will also share evidence-based guidance developed by the VLSB+C to support early career lawyers and their supervisors to get the most out of supervised legal practice.
This session will be of most interest to legal supervisors and supervisees.
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Speakers
Dr Nicki Macklin
Nicki is a researcher, advisor, and speaker focused on the human side of organisational performance – where kindness meets accountability, and trust becomes strategy. Her PhD explored kindness in teams and organisations as a form of social capital and a lever for performance and quality improvement. Nicki is an Associate Editor at British Medical Journal (BMJ) Leader, where she supports global research on kindness, psychological safety, and relational leadership through to publication. She is a visiting scholar and guest lecturer at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, where she works with MBA students on organisational kindness and ethical leadership. Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, featured in Forbes, and research presented in peer-reviewed journals including the BMJ Leader. Nicki holds several patient advocacy and advisory roles and works with a global network committed to putting kind care into practice across policy, leadership, and system design. She’s passionate about helping organisations create the conditions for people to do their best work: open-hearted cultures, clear expectations, and shared accountability. Through her consulting practice, KindFrame, Nicki supports leaders, teams, and governance groups to embed relational leadership and values-led culture. She also speaks regularly on kindness as a strategic asset in high-stakes professional environments including law, healthcare, and business.
Kerri-anne Millard
Kerri-anne Millard is a lawyer, specialising in policy and legislative development. Kerri-anne has over 25 years of experience working for independent regulators across the Victorian public service, in diverse areas such as environment protection, earth resources, biosecurity, consumer affairs, and for the past 8 years, legal profession regulation at the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner. The Policy and Outreach Division that Kerri-anne oversees is responsible for the delivery of programs and expert advice in relation to policy and regulatory strategy, strategic communications, research, evaluation and impact, funded partnerships and programs, lawyer wellbeing and stakeholder engagement. Kerri-anne is a passionate collaborator and enjoys achieving strategic outcomes for the Victorian legal profession, consumers of legal services and the Victorian community. She is married with two teenage boys and an entitled spoodle (cockapoo) that demands her daily attention.
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