EJ Stern, MA

EJ Stern focuses her coaching and consulting on working with lawyers and other professional services providers who want to grow their practices and improve their time management skills.  Her results-oriented business development approach focuses on identifying and leveraging a professional’s strengths, motivations and work style to grow his/her existing client base and cultivate new leads. Her clients range from associates who are at the beginning of the business development process and want to learn the tools needed to create a thriving practice to established partners who are seeking to increase their books of business and broaden their client base. She also offers practice development training and coaching for firm leaders. EJ helps her clients create best practices and provides the accountability necessary for success.

In addition, EJ has experience training and coaching professionals on time management. She has developed a systematic approach to effectively manage and maximize time, including prioritizing competing deadlines, communicating with partners and supervisors on the status of work in progress, planning workflow to ensure that deadlines are met and proactively interacting with leadership to become a valued resource.

EJ has more than 15 years of experience offering training, strategic consulting, and individual coaching to law firms, lawyers and other professional service providers. She most recently served as US Head of Client Development for Clyde & Co, an international law firm based in the UK. In this role, she led all aspects of strategic oversight for more than 200 lawyers across North America, including developing cross-selling initiatives, leading client accounts, devising lateral integration strategies, advising on alternative fee arrangements, and overseeing all marketing and practice management functions. Prior to joining Clyde & Co, EJ spent nearly 10 years at Troutman Sanders, an Am Law 100 firm, where she held the position of Associate Director, Business Development Coaching. In this role, she developed, launched and led several firm wide strategic initiatives including a business development coaching program for partners, a business development training series for associates and counsel, and a women’s business development initiative. She also held marketing positions at Steptoe & Johnson and Proskauer Rose.

EJ is a graduate of the Skillful Means Coach the Coach® and GrowBIG® training programs. She received her Master’s degree from New York University, summa cum laude, and her Bachelor’s degree from American University, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.