Rachel Brushfield, the founder of EnergiseLegal is a seasoned events professional.
She has done many events over the last 30 years for various sections and communities of the Law Society in London, Birmingham Law Society, Association Women Solicitors (AWS) London and Surrey, American Women Lawyers in London (AWLL), Women in the Law (WITL) and the Society of English and American Lawyers (SEAL) amongst others.
Events topics include:
- Blowing your own trumpet – market yourself with confidence
- Career agility
- Confidence and empowerment
- Future proof your career
- Portfolio careers
Rachel’s event approach is interactive and creative using self-completion questionnaires, props and action planning to ensure insights are implemented and learning embedded.
Interested in an event for your law firm, company or membership organisation? Get in touch!
To receive our up-to-date events biog, delegate testimonials, event organiser testimonial or make an enquiry about an event for you, please contact us: https://www.energiselegal.com/2012/contact-us/
NEXT EVENT – SPRING 2025 – DATE TBC
A joint event for the Society of English and American Lawyers (SEAL) JLD and Westminster and Holborn Law Society JLD about Consultant Lawyers as a career choice.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
THE PATH TO PARTNERSHIP AND BEYOND
Birmingham Law Society
Date: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue: 3PB Barristers. The Colmore Building, 20 Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6AT
Price: FREE for members | £10 +VAT for non-members
Are you a junior or mid-level lawyer standing at a crossroads in your career?
Join us for an insightful discussion about the path to partnership and beyond. During this event, we will consider the intricacies of attaining partnership within a law firm and hear from lawyers who have successfully followed this path. We will also consider some alternative career pathways to partnership and reflect on the diverse range of career options that are available within the legal profession.
Whether you are contemplating the journey to partnership or considering alternative avenues, this event will equip you with the knowledge and inspiration to navigate your next steps with confidence and make an informed decision about your future.
https://birminghamlawsociety.co.uk/members/book_event.php?event=579
SOLD OUT Women in the Law conference ‘Empowerment’ DLA Piper Manchester 10 am to 5pm. Friday 17 November 2023.
Career agility. How to future proof your career in uncertain times
7-8pm GMT Tuesday 17 January 2023 (Zoom)
An interactive 1 hour careers webinar from Rachel Brushfield, founder of EnergiseLegal sharing insights, practical tips and examples to future proof your career and become more ‘career agile’.
We live in a ‘V.U.C.A. world’ – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. This is challenging, especially for lawyers who are trained to be experts in risk! Attend this webinar and ensure that you are on the ‘front foot’ not the ‘back foot’ and stay in the driving seat of your career.
This is a joint event for SEAL (Society English and American Lawyers), AWLL (American Women Lawyers in London), Westminster and Holborn Law Society and LegalWomen.
Book using this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetI9XfQmd3PNjb-4fhBAHMEKMIhqD4GPl_B0IezY3z2xk2tw/viewform
Women In The Law (WITL) 2022 conference ‘Empowering you to do what you do best’ F 18 Nov 2022 Manchester
I am a panellist discussing ‘Alternative careers in law and careers in the judiciary.’
The venue for the conference is DLA Piper’s central Manchester office in Saint Peters Square.
Conference chair is Dr Sally Penni. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallypenni/
Joint AWLL + SEAL event with EnergiseLegal
American Women Lawyers in London (AWLL) and the Society of American and English Lawyers (SEAL).
Th 8 September 2022
Where: Zoom or London, TBC.
When: 7-9pm Thursday 8 September 2022.
What: “Blowing your own trumpet. 5 secrets to get noticed in your career.”
Marketing yourself is a must-master skill. Whether you work in private practice or in-house, are American or English, male or female, 2 or 20 PQE, the failure to embrace and make time for this important topic can be career limiting.
An interactive careers event sharing insights, practical tips and examples to market yourself confidently, competently, impactfully and expediently to enable a career breakthrough. Opportunity to win one free draw prize of a gift voucher for a 1 hour career coaching session with Rachel Brushfield. All guests will receive a free copy of the EnergiseLegal white paper about career agility: ‘The new polymaths’.
Peter Wilford, EnergiseLegal associate and EnergiseLegal founder Rachel Brushfield are both speaking at this event = 70+ years of career coaching expertise combined.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
The 2021 Women in the Law conference 9.30am to 4pm on Friday 19 November. The theme is: “Empowering you to do what you do best post-Covid.” https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-conference-empowering-you-to-do-what-you-do-best-post-covid-tickets-130249492739
Topics include:
- Wellbeing
- Confidence
- Post Covid 19 and You
- Careers
With guest speakers:
- I.Stephanie Boyce
- Manjula Bray Managing your career
- Mark Angus Become a Judge
- Alex MCcann Maximising social media for your career
- Kirsty James Networking for your career
- Nicolina Andall Networking , advocacy and engaging clients
- Jodie Hill
- Kevin Withane
- Rachel Brushfield
- Hannah Beko Overwhelm
- Nicky Pattison
My talk is: “Liberating your talent by playing to your strengths. The key to success + fulfilment.
Are you stopping your own success by not marketing yourself effectively?
Energise Marketing Yourself Seminar: “Marketing me. Successful proactive marketing.”
6-8pm Wednesday 20 October 2021 on Zoom.
We cover these topics:
- Introduction to marketing
- What’s my USP? (unique selling proposition)
- The power of the unadvertised jobs market
- Direct approaches to create opportunities
- Leveraging LinkedIn
- Building and growing my business network
- Collecting my marketing collateral
Early bird ticket sales end Saturday 16 October 2021. Book now.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marketing-me-successful-proactive-marketing-tickets-189693778197
CAREER AGILITY EVENT FOR FIG
Rachel Brushfield and Peter Wilford did a webinar for the FIG (female insurance group) network 10-11am on Wednesday 9 June 2021 on Zoom. https://www.rpc.co.uk/fig/
The topic was: ‘Career agility – the new intelligence?’
Is career agility the new intelligence? Covid-19’s impact has forced rapid change for both individuals and businesses. Career agility is a pre-requisite for success in the digital age and in a fast-changing world of work and legal profession.
This webinar shared insights about what career agility means, how to develop it, with a focus on portfolio careers and practical actions that you can take. Inspiring examples were shared demonstrating career agility, with time for Q&A. The event included a free draw prize to win a career coaching gift voucher, and the opportunity to gain a free copy of the new Energise White Paper about career agility.
Watch a video of the webinar: https://vimeo.com/560804061/a5b6637da4
To get in touch about us doing an event for your network/firm, contact us using this link: https://www.energiselegal.com/contact-us/
ENERGISE MARKETING YOURSELF SEMINARS
SEMINAR 1
Energise Marketing Yourself Seminar: “Why me? What value do you bring?”https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marketing-seminar-why-me-what-value-do-you-bring-tickets-154062857153
6-8pm Tuesday 15 June on Zoom.
ABOUT OUR EVENTS
We do bespoke events on a variety of career, talent, marketing and wellbeing topics for solicitors, firms and membership organisations.
Including;
- The Law Society (Women Lawyers Division, D&I Returners course, all communities, the Law Management Section)
- Women in the Law
- Association Women Solicitors (AWS) London
- Association Women Solicitors (AWS) Manchester
- Association Women Solicitors (AWS) Surrey
- American Women Lawyers in London (AWLL)
- LawNet
- International Bar Association (IBA)
The Energise approach to events is interactive, fun, using props with lots of sharing from and mixing between the event guests.
What event would help you/your staff to grow? Get in touch to discuss how we can help
Organiser Testimonials
The Law Society
“I inherited the provider relationship with Rachel Brushfield, ‘The Talent Liberator’ of Energise at the Law Society, and I am glad that I did. At the Women Lawyers Division of the Law Society, we consider Energise as a trusted partner.
Rachel designs and delivers multiple career events each calendar year for us, including the Empowerment workshop in celebration of International Women’s Day, which achieved a 100% rating from delegates in 2018.
She consistently delivers an excellent standard of service, has a high attention to detail, creates good quality interactive workshops with superb feedback from delegates, including being ‘real’ and ‘down to earth’, and she has a professional, positive, adaptable ‘can do’ attitude and an ability to put herself in the shoes of other people, invaluable for providing additional value to our diverse members, against a fast changing market backdrop.
Rachel has supported our Returners course helping women and men over many years, to have a successful return to the profession, and was involved in its recent redesign to update the programme to better meet the needs of a broader audience for the digital age. She has also created high quality popular career webinars and articles to support and inspire Returners to return to the profession.
With a large workload and multiple projects to deliver and stakeholders to influence, Rachel is a reliable asset to support me to help our network delivering and developing a high-quality schedule of both events and content for our members.She is well-regarded at the Law Society and also did workshops to support staff as part of Learning at work Week (LAWW) in 2018. Rachel is an experienced professional, requiring minimal supervision.”
Alex Storer, Manager Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expert at the Law Society.
Obelisk Support
“Thank you for delivering a great workshop today. We have already received thank you e mails from our consultants and all were very complementary about you and the session.“
Gislele Lambert, Head of Engagement, Obelisk Support.
LawNet
“I am writing to thank you for your participation in the Training heads event at CMS Cameron McKenna. Your presentation was very well-received and I am most grateful for your time and contribution to the group.”
Myrian Stirling, LawNet Training and events.
For Solicitors
Women in the law’s (WITL) annual conference ‘Empowering you to do what you do best’ is in Manchester on Friday 17 November 2023.
I will be speaking – see you there!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-conference-empowering-you-to-do-what-you-do-best-tickets-479112708007?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Portfolio careers event for Women in the Law 1pm-2pm Thursday 7 January 2021
Well-being week is w/c 4 January 2021
Looking forward to doing a lunchtime event 1-2pm about portfolio careers as part of “well-being week” for the Women in the Law network, founded by Sally Penni.
Women in the Law network: https://www.womeninthelawuk.com/
View Sally Penni’s personal web site: http://www.sallypenni.co.uk
More details about our Portfolio careers event coming soon.
This is our first event of 2021.
2020 and Covid-19 has been an important reminder of the importance of good health, well-being and what really matters.
The definition of well-being is “The state of being comfortable, healthy and happy.”
Please book your place at this event via EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wellbeing-week-rachel-brushfield-tickets-131009806859
Read about LawCare’s ground-breaking research: Life in the law.
This ground-breaking research project will help LawCare understand how legal practice and workplace culture affect well-being.
Find out more:https://www.lawcare.org.uk/news/lawcare-launches-ground-breaking-research-study-life-in-the-law
Our last event in 2020 – 8 December 2020
‘Fireside chat’ event: Career Agility in law 12-1pm on Tuesday 8 December 2020 with Law Society Vice President I.Stephanie Boyce and guests. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/career-agility-in-law-in-conversation-with-istephanie-boyce-and-guests-tickets-129318754877
There has never been a time where resilience and career agility were needed more.
Rachel will lead a conversation on:
– The changing nature of roles in the law
– How women can play to their strengths to overcome any challenges
– Adapting to the new post Covid-19 workplace
Webinar guests will gain:
- Inspiring stories of career change from 3 guests
- Insights and practical tips to reflect on 2020 and plan 2021
- The chance to win a 1-hour career coaching gift voucher
Previous events
- The Law Society Confidence and Empowerment workshop for International Women’s Day March 2018 and 2019.
- South Cheshire Law Society Personal Branding July 2019
- The Law Society (all divisions) – ‘Changing career direction’ (2016)
- The Law Society (all divisions) ‘Career crossroads? Deciding the next chapter.’ (2017)
- The Law Society ‘Portfolio careers’ (2016)
- American Women Lawyers in London (AWLL) ‘Career crossroads’ (2015)
For Firms
- https://www.womeninthelawuk.com/The Law Society Law Management Section (LMS) People in practice conference: Retain talent and lead into success 6 March 2019 ‘Talent attraction and retention’.
- The International Bar Association. Panel session at Paris conference on talent retention and development. (2014)
- LawNet annual conference breakout session; ‘Impact of GenY on the legal profession.’ (2015)
- LawNet event ‘Talent engagement’ (2010).
Attendee feedback
Came out buzzing!
“I really enjoyed your presentations. Only wish the session could have been longer. I went into the event not knowing what to expect and not feeling very confident at all and came out buzzing and feeling full of hope and ideas!”
Jayne Nicol.
Inspiring talk
“Thank you for your inspiring talk last night. Loved the fun props!”
Macki Maconie
Surpassed my expectations
“Incredibly well-prepared session - organised and knowledgeable. Surpassed my expectations”.
Kate Forster.
Well organised
“Well organised and a good mix of presentation and dialogue in a short period.”
J Cook.
Very thoughtful and well managed
“The discussion was very thoughtful and well managed. Rachel was very engaging and funny.”
Laura Spence.
Great, energetic, valuable
“The activities were really interactive and thought provoking. Really enjoyed how Rachel facilitated discussion and encouraged lively debate. Rachel packed a lot of useful activity into the time available. Great, energetic, valuable.”
Simon Butt-Bethlendy.
She was great
“She was great. Loved the props! It has been extremely useful and thought-provoking.”
Gerda Pincinte.
Works really well
“Really fun, interactive, informal approach works really well.”
Laura Taylor.
Very well prepared and presented
“It was very well prepared and presented. Rachel has a great manner which makes what could be a difficult subject seem much more manageable.”
Anne Whitehouse.
Confidently presented
“Confidently presented and had the right tone.”
Ella Bedrock.
Very thought provoking
“Very approachable, good at generating discussion. Also very thought provoking. Thank you for a very interesting session!”
Christine Richardson.
Such a good balance
“There was such a good balance between professional input, advice and understanding and shared experience relating to extremely sensitive issues which few people feel comfortable about raising in the workplace.
I left the event definitely feeling empowered.”
Chriso Christodoulou.
