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Leading well is a skill. Let's develop it together.

 

Janet Thompson Jackson is an executive coach (ACC), Professor Emerita at Washburn University School of Law, and Interim Dean of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the University of Groningen. She works with lawyers and legal organizations on leadership, wellbeing, and sustainable performance.

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Janet is featured in and affiliated with:

Bloomberg Law | Law360 | The Legal Department Podcast | Legally Bond Podcast | Juris Education | Kansas Lawyers Assistance Program | University of Groningen | Washburn Law School

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The first-of-its-kind app tailored to the legal community!  The Well-Law® app is an easy to use tool that you can access on your phone or PC/laptop/tablet. The app provides tools that help cultivate self-reflection, empathy, and emotional intelligence and manage the effects of chronic stress on the body and mind. App users engage with informational wellness talks, accessible wellness skill-building activities, and wellness practices for busy professionals, including meditations, breathing exercises, and physical movement videos.

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Ways to work with Janet 

 

Choose the format that fits your goals.

Whether you need a keynote, a coach, or a training for your team, every engagement helps people at every stage, from law students to senior leaders, build the skills to lead well and thrive.

Speaking

Keynotes and conference sessions that give legal audiences practical tools for leading well.

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Coaching

One-on-one coaching for leaders and emerging leaders, focused on clarity, intention, and impact at every stage of a career.

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Training

Interactive workshops for legal employers and law schools, including Difficult Conversations for the Workplace and AI & Wellbeing.

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Signature Keynote Topics

Each topic can be shaped for your audience and your event.
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Law360 Pulse

April 30, 2026
How Leaders Can Foster Professional Growth With Feedback
How feedback works as a leadership and equity tool in legal workplaces, and how leaders can use it to help people grow.

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Bloomberg Law Insights

February 3, 2026
Climbing the Ranks of Lawyer to Leader Takes More Than Expertise
Law often blurs the line between managing work and leading people.  Sustainable legal organizations invest in developing their leaders.

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Bloomberg Law Insights

February 28, 2025
Firms Must Accept Wellness, Inclusion as a Structural Necessity
A wellness focus in legal practice is essential. A culture of wellbeing means environments where all lawyers can thrive.

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Thought Leadership

Ideas in print, on air, and in conversation.
The Legal Department with Stacy Bratcher

April 2026
Goal Getter: The ABS of Goal Setting (Episode 92)
A practical strategy for goals that matter: Anchor in your values, set Boundaries that help you stick with it, and identify the Steps to get there.

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Juris Education Interview

November 13, 2025

Law students and mental health
Why mental health matters in the legal profession, why work-life balance is a myth, and what it will take to change the culture for law students and new lawyers.

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Legally Bond Podcast

May 12, 2025
Wellbeing in Law
Practical wisdom that challenges the profession's glorification of "the grind." How perfectionism and chronic overwork erode health and connection, and to choose accessible alternatives.

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Sue Schechter
Field Placement Program Berkeley Law

“Your work is so important to me, but even more importantly, for the world - for the legal profession, for our law schools, for our students, it so needs to be seen and heard. The way you weave in all these critical issues to wellbeing is just remarkable. Please stay on the path.”

Gillian Chadwick
Professor of Law, Washburn Law School

“Through our wellness coaching sessions, Janet has helped me identify my wellness goals and work towards them in concrete ways. Her specific suggestions have reduced my stress load so much. She has helped me realize that I do not have to settle for a mentality of “just getting through it” at work. Thanks to her consistent coaching, I can now see that I deserve to thrive and live with ease in all aspects of my life, both work and personal.”

Justine Dunlap
Professor of Law, UMass Law

“Janet helped me claim the importance of radical self-care. And she goes about this work in her wise, compassionate, funny, and gentle manner. What a gift.”

Nick French
Former student (written as student during Covid pandemic); current Attorney

"I am thankful for a space where PJJ [Professor Janet Jackson] has acknowledged the stressful times that everyone is going through. It helped to have a professor acknowledge [it] and to affirm that it is okay if it takes some time to adjust or even find a new routine. Simply having PJJ affirm my feelings was extremely reassuring for me, it made me feel seen."

Sue Schechter
Field Placement Program Berkeley Law

“Your work is so important to me, but even more importantly, for the world - for the legal profession, for our law schools, for our students, it so needs to be seen and heard. The way you weave in all these critical issues to wellbeing is just remarkable. Please stay on the path.”

Gillian Chadwick
Professor of Law, Washburn Law School

“Through our wellness coaching sessions, Janet has helped me identify my wellness goals and work towards them in concrete ways. Her specific suggestions have reduced my stress load so much. She has helped me realize that I do not have to settle for a mentality of “just getting through it” at work. Thanks to her consistent coaching, I can now see that I deserve to thrive and live with ease in all aspects of my life, both work and personal.”

Justine Dunlap
Professor of Law, UMass Law

“Janet helped me claim the importance of radical self-care. And she goes about this work in her wise, compassionate, funny, and gentle manner. What a gift.”

Nick French
Former student (written as student during Covid pandemic); current Attorney

"I am thankful for a space where PJJ [Professor Janet Jackson] has acknowledged the stressful times that everyone is going through. It helped to have a professor acknowledge [it] and to affirm that it is okay if it takes some time to adjust or even find a new routine. Simply having PJJ affirm my feelings was extremely reassuring for me, it made me feel seen."

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Hi! I’m Janet Thompson Jackson, founder of Well-Law.

I practiced and taught law for over 20 years before founding Well-Law with a simple but powerful belief: that the legal profession can and should do better for its leaders and its people. Well-Law brings that vision to life

 

Executive leadership coach | Speaker | DIB leader | Wellbeing facilitator

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