Who are the EnergiseLegal team?
Rachel Brushfield, Founder
Rachel Brushfield is the founder of EnergiseLegal and is ‘The Talent Liberator’; a career, talent, learning & development strategist and coach & published author. She has over 30 years’ experience to help the legal profession embrace change and Energise has been established for over 20 years (1997). Rachel’s career background is in FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) marketing and brand strategy and integrated communications, both employed and on a consultancy basis for design, advertising and innovation consultancies, providing multiple benefits for clients. Rachel’s own portfolio career is comprised of career and executive coaching, marketing mentoring, talent management, L&D mentoring and consultancy, career retreats, events, feature articles and books, content curation and creation and action learning sets (group coaching.)
Entrepreneurial in nature, and incisive, insightful, strategic yet practical and down to earth in approach, she keeps ahead of trends and up to date with best practice, and has focused on the legal profession for over 17 years. Her published material includes a book on ‘Career management for lawyers. Practical strategies to plan your next chapter’ (January 2019, The Law Society), ‘Smarter legal marketing. Practical strategies for busy lawyers’, (September 2018, The Law Society), ‘Talent management for lawyers: a hands on guide’ (2012, Ark), ‘Professional development for lawyers’ (2012, Ark) and over 18 articles for high quality legal magazines including ‘Managing Partner’ ,’Managing for success’ and ‘Inside out’. Rachel contributed a chapter on ‘Helping women lawyers overcome their blocks about marketing themselves’ in the book ‘Business Development for Women Lawyers’ (August 2018, Ark), ‘Essential skills for the changing legal market’ for the book ‘The Talent management toolkit for law firms’ for Ark (2016), a chapter on ‘Women in law and gender balance’ for the book ‘Managing talent for success’ (2013) for The International Bar Association (IBA)/Globe Law and Business and one on the ‘Impact of mentoring and coaching on life balance issues’ for the book ‘Mentoring and coaching for lawyers’, also for IBA/Globe. (2014) . Rachel Brushfield was shortlisted in the entrepreneur category of the 2017 We are the city ‘Rising star’ awards, one of only 200 women in the UK. These awards are for women who support the female pipeline.
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Rachel has done events for the Association of Women Solicitors (AWS) London, Surrey and Manchester groups on ‘Personal branding & social media’ and ‘Blowing your own trumpet’, and she initiated, planned and spoke at 2 events on ‘Portfolio careers’ for the women lawyers division (WLD) of The Law Society (2014, 2015). She organised and spoke at The Law Society’s first ever ‘Changing career direction’ event (2015). Other event topics include self-marketing, talent management, personal branding, career planning, portfolio careers and employee engagement.
Rachel has supported the successful Law Society’s bi-annual ‘Returners course’ (rebranded Recharger programme) for over 10 years doing sessions on job tips and legal market/work trends and CVs, and was involved in its redesign in 2018. Rachel created content for LexisNexis on diversity & inclusion and The Law Society; career change case studies, articles for the new careers page, plus a series of career webinars for their Professional Development Centre (PDC)
Inspiring Portfolio Careers for Women Lawyers is a specialism www.llclub.org and Rachel is co-founder of the network PWHub – Inspiring Professional Women in Oxfordshire, a network for senior women employed in all sectors. https://www.pwhub.org.uk/
To download free Rachel’s articles about the legal profession, click on the link below. Topics include ‘Stuck in the middle’ about the associate surplus, ‘Talent quicksand’ about the career model, ‘Equality for diversity’ about the benefits of D&I for innovation and ‘Feeling decisions’ about emotional intelligence. http://www.energiselegal.com/published/articles/ Rachel also blogs for The Law Society: https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/news/blog/8-tips-to-market-yourself-indirectly/
Dr Ian Dodds, Associate
Ian is the winner of the 2017 Lotus Award for Lifetime Achievement in Pioneering Inclusive Cultures. He specialises in: leadership, organisation and people development; equality, diversity and inclusion; engagement; behavioural change. He is a highly successful deliverer of Inclusive Leadership. Inclusive Leadership is a key driver of inclusion and high performance, great customer service, employee engagement, innovation, gender and race equality and the successful delivery of complex change. Furthermore, he is a regular speaker at international conferences on Inclusive Leadership and other aspects of Diversity and Inclusion.
Before becoming a consultant, Ian was Group Head of Organisation and People Development for ICI, then the largest chemicals company in the world, and a member of its Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Board. His clients have included Allen & Overy, Allianz, Capital Finance Group, Cisco Systems, Coca Cola Enterprises, DLA Piper, DSG International, Fluor, Goldman Sachs, Herbert Smith, JPMorgan Chase, K&LNG, Linklaters, NHS, Pitney Bowes, Philips, Proctor & Gamble, Sainsbury’s, Sodexo, Taylor Wimpey, The Economist Group, Wates Group, Wolseley PLC, Central Government Departments and Local Authorities. Ian is: both a life coach and an executive coach; a qualified counsellor; an elected, faculty member of the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioural Science; listed in Who’s Who as a Business Leader of the Millennium. He is a member of the Thought and Action Steering Group of the Engage for Success Movement. Ian holds an MA (Oxon), PhD, Cert Ed (with distinction) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Annemie Ress, Associate
Annemie has wide ranging experience in designing and implementing significant organizational change and transformation in multi-national businesses including: innovation and people, and focusing on future trends as they specifically impact leadership, talent, culture, diversity and complexity. Her groundbreaking work in the field of People Innovation allows Annemie to approach organizational, leadership and strategic challenges from a very different, unique and results driven perspective. In a highly digital world, successful organizations and leaders, need to adapt at pace to ever increasing levels of complexity. People Innovation can be described as the art through which innovative business and people insights are created, that drive real world actions and sustainable change, that meet the complexity and innovation challenges faced by businesses and leaders today.
Through People Innovation, insights are embedded quickly, and new habits are created that become hard wired leading to better decision making, quality of thinking, and new ways of achieving business results. Annemie applies a People Innovation approach to all the areas that she has a proven track-record of delivery in. Annemie’s most recent work includes a focus on the Barriers to Innovation in Organizations. Being passionate about driving sustainable change, this work had led to the creation of 10 new solutions to overcome the Barriers to Innovation. Annemie is also the Founder of PurpleBeach, which brings together business leaders and thinkers to share experiences that transform thinking, change perceptions and ultimately lead to new ways of doing business. (www.purplebeach.com). Previous roles include global head of people innovation at eBay, Europe global HR director for PayPal and eBay, and Skype HR director.
Dr. Orit Wolf, Associate
Orit Wolf has the unconventional combination of being an acclaimed international concert pianist, senior lecturer and expert business consultant on the area of innovative thinking and creative marketing.
By the age of 23 she had already acquired three degrees in distinctions summa cum laude from Tel Aviv University, Boston University, and the Royal Academy of Music, winning numerous international awards such as the Kahn Award for the Arts, Richmond Competition, BBC Radio 3, Hattori Foundation, America Israel Cultural Foundation, and many more. She has performed in the Alt Opera Hall (Frankfurt), Symphony Hall (Hamburg), Wigmore Hall (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), as well as in various royal palaces. Wolf was recently awarded the ARAM by the Royal Academy for her outstanding achievements and intercultural contribution to the music world.
She was then offered teaching positions at Leeds University, Tel Aviv University and the Shenkar Institute. Wolf has been lecturing in Music and Management, Creative Marketing and Interpersonal Communication- both in Israel and abroad.
Her massive exposure to varied audiences and her unique vitality have made her one of the most sought after lecturers in these fields. Her projects in Innovation and Creative Marketing have won various prizes for their distinction and originality. Since 1999 she founded Creative Business Solutions, supplying consulting services to a variety of international companies both in developing products and in building innovative marketing systems (selected customers are IBM, ZIM, Master Card, Visa, Motorola, NDS, Cisco, Veraz, HP, Teva, FERRING, ECI, ELY LILLY, EDS, FedEx, Flying Cargo, Verint, Orange, Team, Verint, Matrix, IDI Insurance and Strauss).
In 2010 THE MARKER magazine chose her as one of the most influential personas of the year. Based in Israel, she divides her time between a demanding concert career, conducting Master Classes worldwide, as well as being an active guest lecturer. She is currently writing her book “The Language of the Creative Mind”.