Upcoming Programs

Topic:

Future-Ready Leadership: Building Agility in Risk-Averse Legal Systems

Date:

Thursday, 12/18/2025, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Program Description: 

Legal professionals, especially those in administrative environments, are often trained to minimize risk. But over time, that risk aversion can calcify into rigidity, limiting leadership growth, team innovation, and even institutional justice. This course explores how to retain legal caution while building personal and organizational agility. We'll use the Greek myth of Perseus and Medusa as metaphors, bringing the leadership takeaways to life, while providing actionable tools to help judges, hearing officers, attorneys, and legal administrators future-proof their leadership, adapt to change, and remain ethically grounded in volatile environments.

Takeaways:

• Explore how risk aversion affects judicial and legal team dynamics and limits adaptability (and career advancement).
• Recognize key signs of professional rigidity -- and their ethical implications.
• Apply actionable strategies to stretch beyond default leadership habits.
• Gain a five-skill framework for increasing institutional and personal agility.
• Define when adaptability becomes a risk itself -- and how to manage that tension.

Instructor:

Scott Mason, the Myth Slayer, is a speaker, executive coach, and former senior New York City government executive with over two decades of experience leading complex, high-impact initiatives in the public and nonprofit sectors. A graduate of Columbia Law School, Scott has overseen the implementation of citywide institutional reform efforts, led initiatives serving hundreds of social service providers, and directed large-scale capital and technology modernization projects — including time serving as First Deputy Chief Executive of New York City’s Office of Administrative Trials & Hearings.

Scott is a 2x TEDx speaker and author of the forthcoming four-book series The Myth Slayer, which reimagines Greek myths as actionable allegories for bold, human-centered leadership. He also hosts a growing YouTube channel dedicated to personal and professional reinvention.

His insights have been featured in published book compilations, online magazines, international television outlets, and on over 100 podcasts and radio programs. Scott has electrified audiences through keynote speeches, workshops, and CLE-accredited programs for global and local corporations, bar associations, national nonprofits, CLE providers, and leadership summits across the country.

After one of his appearances at PMI’s Mile Hi Chapter, an event organizer remarked, “I have never met anyone as passionate as Scott. He is charismatic, engaging, and deeply cares about people. These attributes make him a magnetizing presenter…Scott is the embodiment of charisma.”

Scott brings mythic insight, strategic clarity, and contagious energy to every stage — equipping legal leaders to meet complexity with confidence, resilience, and ethical strength.

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CLE Credits: 

2.0 Ethics & Professionalism (transitional/non-transitional)

Topic:

Activating Your Goals: An Odyssey to Unstoppable Legal and Professional Progress

Date:

Thursday, January 29, 2026, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Program Description: 

This motivational yet grounded session helps legal and tribunal professionals break through inertia, realign with purpose, and set actionable career and institutional goals. Drawing on the myth of Odysseus and a unique leadership development framework, the course is designed to help attorneys and hearing officers/ALJs reclaim momentum and turn vision into directionally aligned achievement -- even amidst conflict or constraint. Participants will walk away with a roadmap for goal achievement that aligns with their values, avoids ethical shortcuts, and inspires sustainable growth.

Takeaways:

• Identify internal and external myths blocking goal achievement within legal and administrative settings.
• Reconnect goals to professional purpose and judicial integrity.
• Construct a step-by-step plan for legal career growth and institutional contribution.
• Reflect on ethical landmines that can arise when goals are misaligned or mismanaged.
• Build resilience tools for staying focused and driven in high-pressure legal environments

Instructor:

Scott Mason, the Myth Slayer, is a speaker, executive coach, and former senior New York City government executive with over two decades of experience leading complex, high-impact initiatives in the public and nonprofit sectors. A graduate of Columbia Law School, Scott has overseen the implementation of citywide institutional reform efforts, led initiatives serving hundreds of social service providers, and directed large-scale capital and technology modernization projects — including time serving as First Deputy Chief Executive of New York City’s Office of Administrative Trials & Hearings.

Scott is a 2x TEDx speaker and author of the forthcoming four-book series The Myth Slayer, which reimagines Greek myths as actionable allegories for bold, human-centered leadership. He also hosts a growing YouTube channel dedicated to personal and professional reinvention.

His insights have been featured in published book compilations, online magazines, international television outlets, and on over 100 podcasts and radio programs. Scott has electrified audiences through keynote speeches, workshops, and CLE-accredited programs for global and local corporations, bar associations, national nonprofits, CLE providers, and leadership summits across the country.

After one of his appearances at PMI’s Mile Hi Chapter, an event organizer remarked, “I have never met anyone as passionate as Scott. He is charismatic, engaging, and deeply cares about people. These attributes make him a magnetizing presenter…Scott is the embodiment of charisma.”

Scott brings mythic insight, strategic clarity, and contagious energy to every stage — equipping legal leaders to meet complexity with confidence, resilience, and ethical strength.

CLE Credits: 

2.0 Ethics & Professionalism (transitional/non-transitional)