Ronna is a Senior Scholar in Residence and Consultant with the Legal Lean Sigma Institute. She teaches Legal Lean Sigma® process improvement and project management White Belt and Yellow Belt certification courses for law firms, legal departments and military law offices. She has a particular focus on working with General Counsels and Chief executives to reduce legal costs, increase budget predictability, improve legal outcomes, break down silos and barriers between groups and organizations, and achieve greater employee satisfaction. She has substantial expertise in strategy and complex deals and transactions.
She stands out in the growing field of PI and PM with her proven track record in applied Project Management (PM). She helps lawyers and business professionals extrapolate the concepts and tools of PM and apply them to their matters and projects. Working with someone who actually has been both a successful practicing lawyer as well as a project manager is highly effective for those who want to do more than just learn the PM stages.
As a lawyer, Ronna represented and advised Boards of Education and school Superintendents on education, employment and constitutional matters in North Carolina. In Boston, she represented clients and managed matters in all phases of commercial, employment and securities litigation and arbitration. She then transitioned to trademark law and counseled clients in trademark clearance, registration, and enforcement. A testament to her abilities and skills, Ronna managed the firm’s Trademark Practice as an Associate.
As Global Director of Client Initiatives for an AmLaw100 firm, she was responsible for progressing projects through all stages of project management. Ronna’s primary focus was the Global Strategic Advisors team, comprised of firm leaders and former United States Presidential Cabinet members, Ambassadors and Senators. Her experience and skills inspired trust and qualified her to originate, plan, execute, monitor and close a complex and sophisticated engagement to form a $1.325 billion fund-of-funds to invest in a Canadian pension’s $12.5 billion global infrastructure alliance.
She was the designated manager for a former United States Treasury Secretary’s legal projects in Europe, China and the Middle East including a $9 billion infrastructure project in Saudi Arabia with a former European Prime Minister’s team, as well as projects in London, Spain, Hong Kong and Shanghai for one of the largest privately owned conglomerates in China.
At the Department level, Ronna’s legal matter management expertise resulted in her team and the Business Department lawyers repeatedly engaging the highest number of new clients with the fewest number of meetings. At the Practice Group level, Ronna was responsible for strategic planning, execution, budgeting, monitoring and closing business with the leaders and lawyers for the Private Investment Funds, Construction & Real Estate, Infrastructure, Intellectual Property, Corporate Finance, Securities and M&A, and Tax practices.
Ronna lives in Dallas. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, travelling, experiencing new cultures, hiking, and horseback riding. She is a board member for Refuge City, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to ending sex trafficking.