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Karla Schlaepfer M.A. is a University lecturer, agile coach, author and creative legal change advocate.
Ms Schlaepfer is the founder of LegalDesignChange. Karla has more than 20 years of experience in human-centered value creation, training and continuing education. She is passionate about optimizing legal firms' workflows with agile frameworks. Today, she advises legal clients with an entrepreneurial eye and cross-industry experience. As a professional change coach, Karla specializes in guiding legal leaders to 21st century skills, leading agile innovation and as a sparring partner for crafting healthier and mindful team collaboration.
Karla is a University of California Berkeley graduate and the author of books on Design Thinking and Cultural Change. She is a certified Scrum Master and Product Owner and gets excited about learning new ways of carrying out tasks with digital and no-code tools.
LEGAL DESIGN CHANGE
Digital agency consulting with law firms and legal departments to help these operate more efficiently, develop innovative teams and the human-centered skills that support New Legal Work. Our services include remote and in-person coaching, consulting, workshop and project facilitation. We offer webinars, Tech Lounge (lunch and learn) as well as facilitation on a variety of topics including Cultural Change, agile Design Thinking for Legals and several forms of Legal Innovation like the Google Design Sprints.
The following article outlines how to utilize the problem-solving framework of human-centered design to create meaningful new interventions that increase collaboration and help lawyers integrate a human-centered approach effectively into their legal work.