Where did this vision come from?
I grew up professionally in the US Army.
And contrary to what many folks might believe,
leadership in the Army is not about giving orders
and flexing your rank or your position in the hierarchy.
There's obviously a time for giving orders.
But the way that I learned how to lead others
and the way that I was led growing up
was through relationship and through trust building
and through empathy and compassion for each other.
I think that's counterintuitive to a lot of folks.
But it really is the most effective way
to build teams, to create buy-in, to create energy
towards a common purpose.
And that's something that I want to translate out
into the rest of the professional world,
and in particular, the legal world,
because I've seen the value of that kind of leadership.
And having left the Army, having worked in government,
having worked within the legal profession more broadly,
I've seen the need for it.
And that's not to say that I'm the only person out there who
can do that, or it's the only method of success.
But I think it is the best way to go forward.
And it's the thing that I am here
to do for the profession.