In this episode, we’re delighted to speak with Heidi Gardner about smart collaboration – a term she coined to talk about how we need highly-specialised experts to come together tackle more complicated issues than any of them could do on their own. 

We take a deeper dive into her world-leading research on how this impacts for legal professionals, and more recently, her research and analysis on what this means for in-house legal teams. 

It’s a fascinating and insightful conversation and I particularly like how Heidi has taken a potentially misperceived soft-skill of collaboration and brought indisputable evidence as to how it brings tangible, bottom-line impacts. 

Further Resources:

• https://www.gardnerandco.co/
• https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Collaboration-Professionals-Succeed-Breaking/dp/163369110
• https://www.globelawandbusiness.com/special-reports/smart-collaboration-for-in-house-legal-teams
• https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-overcommitted-organization