Dechert’s Global Women’s Initiative (GWI) will hold its annual Sponsorship and Sustained Support (SASS) program for senior women counsel, national partners and associates the week of March 7-11 to coincide with International Women’s Day.
Launched in 2015, the program was designed to help more women navigate the path to partnership by providing targeted individual and small group support, including skill-level appropriate training, individualized attention from Dechert partners, and access to consultants and advisors.
The 2022 program theme, “Reconnect, Renew, Reimagine,” will be highlighted throughout the week’s programming and networking opportunities. Training topics include sessions on self-advocacy and defining your personal brand; business plan development; insights into the path to partnership from recently promoted partners; advice from rainmakers and more.
Guest speakers include Mary Ann Sieghart, broadcaster and author of The Authority Gap, and Valorie Burton, founder of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute and author of Let Go of the Guilt.
Five years prior to SASS implementation in 2015, 18 percent of lawyers promoted to partner were women. In 2022, 52 percent of lawyers promoted to partner were women.