Burn Bright, Not Out: Achieving Sustainable Success in Your Law Practice

Karen Morris is President and founder of Suizzo Morris Group, LLC, specializing in executive leadership, career, and transition coaching for individuals and organizations. Focusing on the “whole person,” Karen coaches in 1:1 and group settings, helping her clients find purpose, gain perspective, resilience, and strength, live with agency and intent, enrich their relationships, positively impact their organizations, their families, and their communities, live with peace and achieve their goals.

During her 30+ year corporate career, Karen held executive roles in Legal, Strategy, Product Management, Marketing, Communications and Regulatory Relations. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel for USAA P&C Group.

Karen is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), certified through the Hudson Institute of Coaching, with advanced training in the Neuroscience of Change and Internal Family Systems. She holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota and a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.

Karen is a champion of advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a focus on the legal community, including serving as President of the National Association of Women Lawyers 2020-21.

Sarah-Nell Walsh is an executive coach, former practicing attorney, and Founder of
Wayfinders LLC. Equal parts big-hearted cheerleader and bold challenger, she works with
equity partners who want to perform at the top of their game.

Coaching with Sarah-Nell is transformative in every way as she challenges you to G-R-O-W.
When you hire Sarah-Nell, you can expect to work hard and laugh often! She believes that
you are uniquely talented and will play to your strengths. She creates a space where you are
seen and valued. In this space, there is no need for apologies or excuses because she is 100%
on your side, even when she holds you accountable. She helps you to identify thought
patterns that aren’t serving you and to confront what ever is keeping you stuck.
Simultaneously, she works to instill deep self-confidence in her clients so you have the
courage to take the next right step. She uses an evidence – based model of change that
emphasizes the development of psychological flexibility: being fully present and self-aware
so that you can choose to act in alignment with your goals + values. You will leave every
session with actionable insights. Using process driven metrics, she creates accountability
and ensures success.

Prior to coaching, Sarah-Nell was a litigation partner at an AmLaw 100 firm, where she was
recognized as Mentor of the Year in 2016. In addition to numerous industry awards, she has
been recognized as a Rising Star by Georgia Super Lawyers and named among the Legal
Elite by Georgia Trend Magazine. Sarah-Nell graduated from the University of Virginia and
received her Juris Doctorate from the College of William & Mary. A lifelong learner, Sarah-
Nell is certified by Hudson Institute, the International Coaching Federation, and Integrative
Enneagram. She is a proud mother to an fifteen-year-old boy, an eleven-year-old girl, and a
naughty Redbone Coonhound.