Get abroad. Stay abroad.
Your success hinges on gaining clarity and focus in order to find your place and succeed there.
Senior International Lawyers
Examples of coaching topics:
Creating a vision for your international life and career abroad, and taking steps toward that vision.
Navigating and adjusting to the complexities of your first work experience abroad or a different role abroad.
Addressing work-life balance in the context of global work.
Managing high levels of stress when dealing with complex international matters.
Developing a leadership style to lead international teams and projects more effectively.
Navigating important multi-cultural relationships and situations in and outside of work.
Leveraging prior professional experiences for new international work situations.
Managing the “inner critic” that can sabotage success while working internationally.
Weathering major personal life changes during an international move or in the middle of sophisticated global work.
Coping with the feelings of personal and professional isolation.
Junior International Lawyers
Examples of coaching topics:
Creating a vision for your international life and career abroad, and taking steps toward that vision.
Weighing the pursuit of more advanced legal education abroad.
Dealing with the overwhelm of working internationally.
Managing the stress of a career away from the established support of friends and family.
Networking more effectively in the global legal profession.
Establishing work-life balance as a rising international lawyer.
Managing the “inner critic” that can stall progress while working in a internationally.
Creating your leadership style to lead international teams and projects more effectively.
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Take decisive action on your next steps.
More about The Inner Advocate.
The Inner Advocate was founded by international lawyer turned executive coach, Lora McInturf, Esq., LL.M. (ACC/ICF). Lora has worked in Big Law in two different countries (the U.S. and in Germany). She is a licensed American lawyer as well as a qualified Solicitor (currently non-practicing) in England and Wales. For the last 15 years, she has been an expat working and living abroad across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. She deeply understands the immense challenges and opportunities felt by lawyers outside their home country.
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The Inner Advocate…Beyond.
Outside of the core offerings of The Inner Advocate, Lora McInturf believes in making a positive difference as widely as possible on the entire legal profession. Below are some of the main ways she multiplies her impact.
Women Expat Lawyers
In 2021, Lora McInturf founded W.E.L.L.S., a growing network of women lawyers and law students living and working abroad. For more information about this group, then please click here.
Pro Bono for Law Students
Lora McInturf mentors and coaches a minimum of four International law students per year. She specifically works in association with the Institute for Law and Finance (Frankfurt, Germany) as well as Grow Mentoring (London, England).
If you are an interested law student, then please click here.
Lawyer Coaches
In 2020, Lora McInturf founded the "Lawyers Coaching Lawyers - International Network". With over 100 members sitting around the world, this network of lawyer coaches creates opportunities for collaboration, inspires new ways of providing services, and expands awareness of the possibilities of coaching to the legal profession (and beyond).
Changing Legal Perspectives
If you want to get to know Lora McInturf better, she posts several times a week on Instagram under the handle The Inner Advocate. Lora is most known for her engaging infographics looking at the legal profession from different perspectives.