GC Wingwoman Program
Early stage or growth phase businesses tend to make their first legal hire from 4-10 PQE lawyers. Now that’s a tough gig for any lawyer! Sole GCs are time poor, overworked and deep in the deep end every day. When you’re the sole lawyer (or the most senior lawyer in a small team) you need someone to bounce ideas off and be your sounding board and muck in to get the work done.
Purpose-fit to support the unique needs of sole general counsels, our sole GC Co-Wingwoman program helps you thrive as a sole GC and develop a strategic plan and execute on your goals. Our Venture Bench team has deep expertise setting up new legal functions for scale and high impact results, and we love supporting sole GCs. We offer a specialised support model for the needs of sole GCs and the upskilling needed to build trust with the business, unlock high impact results with limited resources and time, and take your function to the next level.
What value will I get from this?
As a sole GC, don’t you wish you had a seasoned GC in your pocket to:-
help you take your performance to the next level, sharing best practice from what I’ve seen learning from some of the best lawyers in big tech (coaching)
have seasoned support on hand to take non-BAU activity and extra work off your hands to unlocking business critical workstream delivery (specialised legal services)
help you set up systems and processes that unlock capacity, operate strategically and avoid spending precious internal resource time on repeat work (advisory)
provide efficient cost effective spend certainty (stakeholder management)
unlock access to ideas outside your own experience to identify solutions from other industries or businesses that provide innovative solves to complex problems (innovation)
help you avoid missteps and win trust quickly with the business
help you win trust with the business, learning from someone who has worked on both sides of in-house legal and the business to position yourself as a trusted commercially-minded advisor (earn trust)