People
Meet the people behind the Centre for Legal Leadership
Alessandro Galtieri
Alessandro is Deputy General Counsel and Group Data Protection Officer at Colt, a network and data centre services company active in more than 30 countries globally.
Alison Nolan
Alison is an independent consultant on leadership and people in professional organisations.
Amanda Lord
Amanda Lord is a Barrister turned High Performing Team Consultant, helping teams of all sizes establish simple, effective working protocols.
Andrew Hildebrand
Andrew is a leading UK independent mediator. He has successfully mediated cases across most sectors.
Angus M Haig
Angus Haig is a seasoned International General Counsel with over 24 years of extensive legal experience (19 years with The Coca-Cola Company) who has lived and worked overseas in Asia Pacific, Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East and the United States.
Anne Todd
Anne trained at a City law firm and has over 25 years' experience as an in-house lawyer in some of the UK's leading in-house legal departments, multinationals, SMEs and public sector.
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Anthony Inglese
Anthony is a consultant to a City law firm and an honorary professor of law. He trains in-house lawyers on a range of subjects.
Anthony Kearns
Anthony helps General Counsel to enhance the performance and value of the legal supply chain to the organisations they serve.
Beth Seccombe
Beth Seccombe is Programme Executive, pro-actively organising and developing projects and events for CLL.
Bruce Macmillan
Bruce Macmillan is the Founder of CLL. Bruce mentors and coaches in-house lawyers. He is General Counsel at Irwin Mitchell.
Catherine McGregor
Catherine is passionately interested in the role of inside counsel in determining the future of legal services.
Chris Ross
Chris Ross is a highly experienced litigator specialising in commercial, banking and civil fraud disputes.
Ciara Cullen
Ciara is a Partner at RPC, specializing in IP and technology litigation and dual qualified in England & Wales and the Republic of Ireland and has acted in several international disputes.
Ciarán Fenton
Board effectiveness consultant Ciarán Fenton helps leaders be what they can and should be. He specialises in facilitating directors on main, operating boards and executive committees to improve their effectiveness by agreeing with each other to make small changes in their behaviour.
Claire Debney
Claire is a former senior in-house counsel and executive with extensive global experience.
Connor Cahalane
Connor is a Partner at RPC and advises listed and pre-IPO companies on M&A, equity fund raising and corporate governance.
Dana Galin
A life-long explorer of human potential, Dana is on a mission to help leaders and their teams create greater impact.
Denise Marshall
Denise Marshall is a facilitator and coach who supports people in their development throughout their careers to achieve high performance and results.
Donna Halkyard
Donna Halkyard was Head of Inclusion & Diversity for RPC and Vice President, City Women Network (CWN).
Donna McGrath
Donna is The In-House Lawyers' Coach. She a former in-house solicitor and has demonstrable experience working in top FTSE UK Companies.
Emma Cusdin
Emma has over 20 years’ experience in Human Resources having worked for global financial services organisations.
Eric Ho
Eric has spent over 20 years as a lawyer, first at a City law firm and later on as Anglo American plc’s Group Head of Legal – Marketing, leading a global team of lawyers responsible for the group’s commodities trading business (USD 29bn revenue (2017)). He was recognised by Legal Business as “GC Powerlist” individual for 2017.
Heidi K. Gardner, PhD
Heidi K. Gardner, PhD, is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession and Faculty Chair of the school’s Accelerated Leadership Program.
Howard Smith
Howard Smith is a copywriter with over 17 years’ experience across the private, public and third sectors.