by friedaL2020 | May 27, 2026 | Leadership, Self-awareness
WRITTEN BY ALICIA KOCH, FOUNDER OF THE LEGAL BELLETRIST There’s a distinct, dark corporate ritual that occurs when a high-stakes, multi-million-dollar crisis lands on an executive desk at 4:45 PM on a Friday. The leadership team doesn’t assemble an agile task force....
by friedaL2020 | Oct 30, 2025 | Communication
WRITTEN BY ALICIA KOCH, FOUNDER OF THE LEGAL BELLETRIST Click here for Part I: The End-of-Year Crunch is Always Nuts – Especially for individuals … Just as it is in our personal lives, the end-of-year rush takes hold at work too. As deadlines tighten,...
by friedaL2020 | Jul 3, 2024 | Communication, Corporate Wellness, Effective communication, Lessons Learned, Perfectionism, Stress & Anxiety, Team building, Team communication, Work life, Working environment
By Frieda Levycky – Founder and Director of Braving Boundaries Perfectionism – We’ve all encountered it at some point in our professional lives. Whether you’ve struggled under someone else’s unrealistic standards that stifle growth and leave no room for...
by friedaL2020 | Jun 22, 2021 | Comfort over coffee, Lawyer Life, mental health, Working environment
Linked article: Workplace Ostracism: Tackling the silent office bully When I think back to my school days, I recall kids taunting other kids because they had braces or freckles or perhaps their skirts were too long. But I recall, quite traumatically, how I was teased....
by friedaL2020 | May 19, 2021 | Lawyer Life, Leadership, work-life balance, Working environment
Article 3 of 3 in the Female Leadership series CO-WRITTEN BY FRIEDA LEVYCKY (BRAVING BOUNDARIES) & ALICIA KOCH (THE LEGAL BELLETRIST) Think back to when you still played with dolls and had tea parties with your teddy bears. When we all still believed in...