In times of change, innovation isn’t just an advantage—it’s a necessity. This workshop equips participants with practical tools and strategies to embrace uncertainty, reframe challenges as opportunities, and foster a culture of creative problem-solving. Using principles of design thinking and adaptive leadership, teams will explore new ways to generate ideas, test solutions, and drive meaningful change, ensuring they stay agile and future-focused in an ever-evolving landscape.
Leaders Aren’t Born – They’re Made.
At The Leadership Laboratory, we engineer sophisticated team + leadership development workshops specifically constructed for finance teams and legal professionals. We understand that finance and legal experts operate in precision-driven, compliance-focused environments that require leadership approaches emphasizing analytical decision-making, strategic risk assessment, and stakeholder communication excellence. Our methodology centers on developing finance and legal leadership capabilities that excel through regulatory navigation opportunities, strategic advisory roles, and organizational governance enhancement.
From financial planning teams and corporate counsel groups to tax specialists, compliance officers, and legal operations professionals, our approach ensures immediate relevance and elevated professional team performance. We recognize that finance and legal teams bring exceptional analytical rigor, detailed attention to accuracy, and strategic advisory expertise – our workshops optimize these professional strengths while introducing leadership frameworks that enhance cross-functional influence, executive communication, and organizational strategic impact. Our finance and legal leadership workshops integrate professional standards with advanced team development, creating experiences that engage finance and legal professionals while driving measurable improvements in team effectiveness and organizational advisory excellence. This profession-specific approach respects the precision, ethics, and expertise that define successful finance and legal operations, providing targeted preparation for senior advisory leadership roles.
Suggested Leadership Workshops: Finance & Legal Teams
Shift Happens: Innovation in Times of Change
Leveraging Design Theory for Strategic & Creative Transformation
Learning Objectives:
- Define the CURRENT STATE and FUTURE STATE of the team’s collective goals and objectives
- Experiment with design thinking methodology to begin ideation of creative, implementable action plans to fully realize your team’s ideal future state
- Leverage positive psychology to create future-focused, behavior-based outcomes
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Strategic Thinking + Goal Setting
- Creativity + Innovation
- Positive Psychology & Growth Mindset
Learning Objectives:
- Define the concepts of EMOTIONAL AGILITY and PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY, and explore the building blocks that allow this to prosper in an individual level and within a team environment
- Explore the five common “THINKING TRAPS” that get people stuck, and practice five communication and trust-based “ESCAPE ROUTE” strategies to help yourself and others break free
- Empower team members to speak their minds, and encourage emotional openness from others
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Psychological Safety
- Building Trust
- Effective Communication
The Art + Science of Psychological Safety
Designing A Culture of High Trust & Emotional Agility
As conversations surrounding psychological safety continue to grow, a leader’s role takes on even greater significance in fostering that culture of trust. Research indicates that the most impactful style of trust is socio-emotional trust, or relational trust – I trust you because of the relationship we have, and the emotional intelligence that’s brought to the conversation. In this session, leaders review the psychological safety communication strategies of high-performing teams to allow for new ideas to succeed, diversity + inclusion initiatives to prosper, and the important, vulnerable conversations to happen effectively.
We Can Work It Out
An Experiment with Conflict & Consensus Building
While frequent conflict can certainly be taxing or uncomfortable, disagreements can often lead to enhanced respect, open-mindedness, and innovation. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to understand various reactions to conflict, and discover which response is most appropriate for a given situation. Participants leave this session with a deeper understanding of their natural communication style during times of conflict, and a refreshed outlook on how to approach these conversations in the future.
Learning Objectives:
- Determine personal approach to conflict conversations, and discover the five differing conflict styles
- Identify benefits and potential obstacles for each style to clarify effective conflict communication strategies
- Develop an action + implementation plan for positive, long-term behavior change
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Effective Communication
- Adaptability + Assertiveness
- Consensus Building + Alignment
Learning Objectives:
- Identify current decision making practices, both on an individual and team level
- Discover The Four Phases of Team Development, overlaying the model to spark dialogue on the current state of team dynamics
- Measure individual and team-based decision making success, and develop an action and implementation plan of new leadership competencies
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Data-Based Decision Making
- Consensus Building
- Effective Communication
Survival Simulation
An Experiment with Team Effectiveness & Decision Making
During this interactive and experience-based simulation, the playing fields are evened and participants are tasked with a specific objective to ensure survival. Leveraging their decisions, teams are able to measure their individual and group effectiveness, and walk away with a deeper understanding of the four stages of team development, and experiment with tools to enhance their approaches to decision making on their own and as a team.
Why Finance & Legal Teams Choose The Leadership Laboratory
Finance and legal team development requires deep understanding of professional standards, regulatory frameworks, and advisory responsibilities. Finance and legal professionals need leadership strategies that enhance their ability to communicate complex concepts while building collaborative relationships that accelerate both individual professional effectiveness and collective organizational advisory impact. The Leadership Laboratory delivers professional advisory leadership workshops that are intellectually rigorous, standards-focused, and designed to maximize the strategic influence within high-performing finance and legal organizations.
Our data-driven finance and legal team workshops blend the art and science of leadership development to create structured, professionally-relevant experiences – strengthening advisory leadership effectiveness and professional team performance. We understand that finance and legal professionals demonstrate remarkable analytical thinking, regulatory expertise, and strategic advisory abilities. Our expertise focuses on maximizing these existing professional competencies while introducing advisory leadership skills that improve stakeholder communication, cross-functional collaboration, and organizational strategic guidance.
Whether your team encompasses financial analysts, corporate attorneys, tax advisors, or compliance specialists, The Leadership Laboratory creates rigorous, evidence-validated workshops that reinforce current professional excellence, enhance advisory leadership presence, and generate superior strategic communication, professional collaboration, and organizational advisory outcomes. Anchored in professional development research and organizational advisory studies, our framework emphasizes expertise enhancement over knowledge limitations, highlighting professional excellence and organizational strategic value.
The Leadership Laboratory operates nationwide with both in-person and virtual healthcare leadership development workshops. We proudly serve healthcare organizations around the world and throughout the United States across the country, including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle.
Strategic Considerations for Finance & Legal Team Development
Finance and legal leadership workshops address the distinctive balance between technical expertise and organizational influence that characterizes effective advisory professional teams. Our approach recognizes that finance and legal professionals thrive when equipped with advanced stakeholder management skills, strategic communication frameworks, and collaborative advisory methodologies that enhance both individual professional contributions and organizational strategic decision-making.
The Leadership Laboratory's finance and legal leadership training integrates professional expertise development with executive communication strategies, ensuring participants develop both the technical precision and interpersonal skills necessary for senior advisory leadership advancement. We focus on building influence capabilities across diverse organizational stakeholders, strategic presentation skills for complex regulatory matters, and the emotional intelligence required to lead collaborative professional teams while maintaining rigorous professional standards and regulatory compliance.
Our methodology acknowledges that finance and legal teams face unique leadership opportunities including strategic advisory development, regulatory guidance facilitation, and organizational risk management that require specialized professional leadership understanding. We create workshop experiences that honor professional standards while introducing leadership concepts that enhance advisory effectiveness and organizational strategic influence.
Our finance and legal leadership development workshops implement proven methodologies created specifically for professional advisory environments, generating concrete improvements in professional team communication, strategic advisory thinking, and collaborative professional leadership to inspire sustained professional excellence throughout your finance and legal organization.
Building tomorrow's leaders today.
The Leadership Laboratory works across multiple industries - including start-up and established technology firms, non-profit and government agencies, finance companies, healthcare organizations and more. We are proud to collaborate with individuals and teams of all sizes.
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Collaborating Partners
“I laughed harder than I have in a while!”
Our workshop was engaging, informative, rejuvenating and pure fun. I laughed harder than I have in a while! This was a phenomenal way to get more comfortable as a team.
— Director of People, SpotHero
“You made this easy to apply and implement”
You listened to our needs and adapted on the spot to incorporate leadership lessons. Every element was backed up by research, and you made this easy to apply and implement.
— VP / HEAD OF PEOPLE, WARBY PARKER
Meet Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein is the founder of The Leadership Laboratory, and leverages his experiences in education, the performing arts, and corporate learning & leadership development to his work. As a performer, Jacob has sung as a backup vocalist for musical artists such as Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, and Patti LuPone, as a recording artist for Netflix series Sense8, and at venues including The United Center, The Chicago Theater, and Chicago Symphony Center. In the education space, Jacob has served as an educator for high school, undergraduate and graduate students, and has been a Guest Lecturer at Northwestern University since 2016. As a Learning & Leadership Development Consultant, Jacob has worked as a one-on-one coach and group workshop facilitator to organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies in diverse industries, including technology, healthcare, non-profit, and fashion/apparel. Jacob holds a Bachelor’s degree from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Master’s of Science in Communication from Northwestern University.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Typical Size of Finance & Legal Teams Leadership Development Workshops?
At The Leadership Laboratory, we customize each learning experience to align with your team and culture. Traditionally, we recommend between 20 – 30 participants per workshop, though often work with groups as small as 5 to as large as 5,000+. Knowing your audience size can help us to design a workshop partnership to maximize engagement and participation, and honor each participant at their respective knowledge and experience level.
Are Finance & Legal Teams Leadership Development Workshops Available Both In-Person and Virtually?
Yes! All of our programming can be facilitated on-site, virtually, or in a hybrid format (virtual facilitation to an in-person audience). For both on-site and virtual workshops, we traditionally recommend a lead time of 6 – 8 weeks to get your top choice of date for a facilitated partnership.
How Do We Choose Finance & Legal Teams Leadership Development Workshops?
When working with a new partner, we leverage a process called backwards design theory to curate a tailored learning experience. One of the first questions that we ask is “what would you like this audience to do differently as a result of this collaboration?” – in other words, what are the skills or behaviors you’d like this group to have, or the knowledge they want to possess?
Once we know and define these learning objectives, we can work backwards and partner with you to determine what content can support in making those goals a reality. For a sample list of workshops, feel free to check our Workshop + Experiments pages, or browse the Workshop by Industry or Workshops by Role pages for additional recommendations.
How Long are Finance & Legal Teams Leadership Development Workshops?
Each of our workshops is designed to be approximately 2.5 – 3 hours in length. For on-site partnerships, most groups opt for two back-to-back workshop topics to create a full day of learning. For teams looking for sessions outside of the standard length, please contact The Leadership Laboratory to discuss more customized options.
Can We Customize Finance & Legal Teams Leadership Development Workshops?
Yes! At The Leadership Laboratory, we leverage a process called backwards design theory to curate a tailored learning experience. As we collaborate with you to learn more about your goals, we can incorporate information about your team’s culture, organizational strategy, and industry trends to design an experience that truly resonates, with easy-to-apply concepts that lead to long-term, positive behavior change.
We know that each participant has their own unique learning goals, and have designed our leadership development experiences to customize our content to each person in the moment. We kick-off each workshop with an opportunity to learn more about the goals of each participant in the room, and align the experience to what is most top-of-mind for them. This differentiated learning allows us to adjust to each unique participant, as well as honor the diverse perspectives, roles, and experience in the room.
Does The Leadership Laboratory Work with Individual Finance & Legal Professionals?
At The Leadership Laboratory, most of our workshops are designed for teams or groups of leaders within organizations. As we focus on customizing each leadership development experience to the unique elements of each organization’s culture and team’s communication style, our work is focused on sessions that departments or groups within the same organization can participate in together, as opposed to sessions that individuals can sign up for on their own.
For individuals looking for one-on-one development, The Leadership Laboratory offers select executive coaching and thought partnership opportunities. Feel free to reach out directly for more information.