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And that's a wrap on #CGI2024! 🌐 CLOC's 2024 Global Institute: a powerhouse event in legal ops! Here's the rundown: 🔍 President Jenn McCarron introduced Legal Ops 3.0, emphasizing innovation and data. 🎤 Keynotes by change enthusiast Cassandra Worthy and Dean Andrew Perlman. 🌍 Recognition of community groups' contributions, including new branches in Spain and Brazil. ✒ Exciting collaboration with Harbor on the 2024 Law Department Benchmarking Survey: https://lnkd.in/gut3mbNv 🤝 2,300+ attendees from 25 countries. 📕 Record 95 educational sessions, with over 60% led by legal ops professionals. ❇️ Exhibit Hall showcased 113 exhibitors, fostering tech discovery and networking. 🧠 New initiatives like Braindate and CLOC Talk Live enriched attendee interactions. 🍏 #CLOCCares initiative with Three Square Food Bank underscored commitment to community service. 🗣️ "Unparalleled energy and engagement" 🗣️ "I'm already looking forward to next year. This community is so welcoming and I picked up so much useful information!" 🗣️ "We missed our opportunity to sponsor this year, but we WILL make it in time to sponsor 2025." Looking forward to continuing the momentum in Sydney and London later this year! #CLOC #LegalOps #LegalOperations

This week we kick-off Earth Month at Calix with a variety of activities that underscore our commitment to protect the environment and help strengthen communities.  Employees can join an Earth Month Challenge, earning points by engaging in eco-friendly activities, with prizes for the winners. These include walking to reduce carbon emissions from transportation, eating plant-based meals, attending local Earth-month events, planting trees, picking up trash and more. This initiative is being organized by the Sustainability at Calix affinity group, which is also hosting two events to discuss sustainability and how to make a difference.  In addition, employee meetup groups are volunteering for Earth Month efforts in their communities. In the Bay Area employees will partner with Friends of Petaluma River to do a river cleanup on April 18th, while Tampa employees will clean up the Riverwalk on April 19th. These efforts support our broader sustainability strategy, which is focused on five pillars:  1. Technology Innovation: This includes improving product durability, efficiency, and recyclability, now and in the future. These efforts help broadband service providers, and their subscribers reduce their power consumption, carbon footprint and energy costs. 2. Culture and Social Impact: We are committed to building an inclusive, Great Place to Work that engages all employees, supports volunteerism and communities. This includes extending our community to the industry and sharing best practices with customers and partners to help them build and sustain great places to work too. 3. Sustainable Supply Chain: This includes strengthening the resiliency and diversity of our supply chain, reducing our carbon footprint, and improving the use of recyclable materials. 4. Sustainable Enterprise: Through a variety of projects, we are reducing our energy use, including consolidating our research and development labs into the Calix Virtual Innovation Lab, allowing our team to work remotely, using EV transportation at our Bengaluru (Bangalore) facility, and reducing our facilities footprint. 5. Sustainable Partnership: Creating lasting change in rural communities. High quality broadband services deliver economic development, better education, health care and public safety services, and strengthen social and civic engagement.  Working with our customers we are living our shared purpose – making a difference in the lives of the people and communities they serve every day.  #EarthDay2024

In this week's podcast episode, Heidrick & Struggles’ Victoria Reese speaks to Dr. Larry Richard, a leading expert on the psychology of lawyer behavior and the founder of LawyerBrain. Today, Larry shares what he thinks makes lawyers different, how they can best create relationships and environments for collaboration, and the biggest difference between a successful law firm partner and a successful general counsel. 🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/3SOfiIu. #leadership #legalleadership #generalcounsel #legalofficers

Conversations with other GCs, as well as legal ops and LegalTech professionals has reinforced my own experience in finding an invaluable strategic partnership with legal ops. At the same time, an underappreciation of legal ops persists. Thinking more about these perspectives led me to write -- and to want to share -- this piece.

I am excited to share my first Forbes.com article as a member of the Forbes Coaches Council: The Myth Of Work-Life Balance And The Truth Of Success And Fulfillment. Ending the futile search for work/life balance and creating a life full of both success and fulfillment is a topic I am passionate about! Work and Life are not opposing forces, and you do not have to choose one over the other. Shift your mindset from the conflict of either/or to the possibility of both and create a life full of both Success and Fulfillment. #executivecoaching #executivedevelopment #authenticleadership #coach #leadershipdevelopment #forbescoachescouncil #professionalgrowth #worklifebalance #fulfillment https://lnkd.in/gwbDyvBi

Exciting. Disruptions are a catalyst for dismantling entrenched mindsets, tearing down ivory towers, paving the way for fresh, promising beginnings. University classes and the learning structure, which I disdained as a student and gamed my way through, are ripe for disruption. Who will be the student that I want to hire? The clever one who figures out how to use AI to be better, faster, and with less effort. In uni they call it plagiarism and cheating, in business we call it teamwork, best practice and being entrepreneurial. "There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen. This crack is going to get wide fast. Exciting.

Calix celebrates 24 incredible years in business! 🎉 To honor our anniversary, we are sharing some of the employee stories that have made the last 24 years possible! Calix has asked some of those who have been here with us since the beginning to share their favorite part about working at Calix. Hear what our employees have to say and why they have stuck around for so long 👇 🔗https://ow.ly/yI6850PAnW4