Kristo Sween
Coach, CGO at Lawyer BookBuilder
kristo@lawyerbookbuilder.com
Kristo Sween, Chief Growth Officer at Lawyer BookBuilder, is a former law firm marketing and business development leader with over 25 years experience working with highly respected regional, national, international, and Am Law 200 firms.
As a highly experienced coach, he has worked with hundreds of attorneys and has extensive expertise in the Lawyer BookBuilder methodology. His practical approach includes developing customized strategies based on strengths and opportunities, drilling down to specific action plans, and helping lawyers build personal accountability systems.
Kristo is also a skilled facilitator, leading group planning, training and debrief sessions that get lawyers thinking, sharing, and committing to action.
Expanded Bio
Kristo empowers attorneys and law firms to unlock their full revenue potential through strategic, relationship-driven business development.
With over 25 years of experience, Kristo has worked with some of the most respected law firms to transform their business development strategies, helping them achieve measurable and sustainable revenue growth. His approach is rooted in authentic relationship building, practical action steps, and consistent accountability.
Quick Stats:
• 25+ years in business development for law firms
• Trusted by top law firms to drive revenue growth
• Specialist in cross-selling and strategic partnerships
How He Can Help:
• Attorney Business Development Coaching: Tailored strategies to grow your book of business.
• Law Firm Marketing & BD Leadership: Consulting for teams to create cohesive growth plans.
• Business Development Planning & Strategy: Customised, actionable roadmaps for revenue success.
• Cross-Selling & Client Relationship Building: Techniques to maximise opportunities within your network.
Kristo also brings additional talents and insights into his coaching, training, and consulting work. As a stage, screen, and voice actor, he helps lawyers understand how to communicate and present themselves in ways that have deeper impact and form more authentic relationships.
As an experienced law firm marketing and business development strategist, Kristo understands the myriad demands on law firm management. He works with managing partners, executive committees, firm administrators, COOs, office managers, professional development leaders and marketing and business development professionals to align training, marketing and business development initiatives in the pursuit of revenue growth.
Education
St. Olaf College, B.A. Speech & Theater, 1988
Privacy policy
This privacy policy sets out how David Freeman Consulting Group uses and protects any information that you give the David Freeman Consulting Group when you use this website.
The David Freeman Consulting Group is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
The David Freeman Consulting Group may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from May 25, 2018.
What information do we collect from you?
We may collect the following information:
- Contact information including email address
Why do we collect this information?
We collect information about you to process your order, respond to your request(s) for information, manage your information, and, if you agree, post offers of other products and/or services that we offer.
How will we use the information about you?
We use your information collected from the website to personalize your repeat visits to the website.
Who might we share your information with?
If you agree, we will pass on your personal information to our related companies so that they may offer you their products and services.
We will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside of the David Freeman Consulting Group. We will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside of the David Freeman Consulting Group.
What do we do with your information?
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to dfreeman@davidfreemanconsulting.com.
How long do we keep your information?
We keep your information indefinitely, or unless you tell us you do not what us to keep it anymore.
How can I restrict collection or use of the information you hold about me?
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Opt-out: whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
- Withdraw permission: if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at dfreeman@davidfreemanconsulting.com.[email address]
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.
How do I correct errors in the information you hold about me?
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Karen Kahn
Coach
Karen@ThresholdAdvisors.com
Karen B. Kahn, Ed.D., the Founder and Managing Partner of Threshold Advisors, LLC, a growing “collaborancy™” that focuses on developing talent in the legal industry, is a professional who answers the request, “Tell me something I don’t know,” with fascinating responses. She lives on the cutting edge of new ideas and is driven to find new ways to solve old problems as is illustrated in her book Daunting to DOable: You CAN Make It Rain (2015).
Powered by her knowledge as a psychologist, talent as a senior level coach, driven by her commitment to equity, and respected expertise working with lawyers at various levels and roles, Karen has developed a reputation among law firms and law departments as the “go- to” person to generate success in the ever-changing world of being an attorney.
The expanse of her work is vast: strategic business development, leadership skills (particularly implementing collaborative models) and building/strengthening gender initiatives that have a true ROI for firms and organizations to name a few. Personally, and professionally, she is a strong believer and implementer of the people helping people philosophy; she practices what she teaches (and coaches). Whether delivering a program/seminar, consulting with a law firm, or coaching attorneys, Karen seeks to be a valuable, active contributor. Her belief in inclusivity, the power of community, operating with a clear vision, and strong sense of purpose allows her to help organizations take action toward developing cultures where individuals stay and succeed. She accomplishes these goals in one-on-one, group, and workshop formats as well as through organizational collaboration and consulting.
Karen is a frequent presenter for organizations including the National Association of Women Lawyers, ALFDP, Legal Marketing Association, and National Association of Law Placement. She is currently teaching a 4-module certification course, LawyerMaking@ Coaching Skills Program for Law Firms in collaboration with Good2BSocial.
Before founding Threshold Advisors, Karen maintained a successful private coaching/psychology practice. She also established herself as a thought leader through her activities as a university professor, author, and developer/leader of more than 1000 seminars and workshops
Karen earned her doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Virginia in 1977, following an internship at The Ohio State University. She received a B.A. with honors from Trinity College in Connecticut in 1973.
Karen happily resides in Westport, Connecticut. Spending time with partner, family, friends and her two golden retrievers and big boxer. Baking and basking in the excitement of her children who are following their passions brings smiles to her face.
Education
University of Virginia, Ed.D., 1977
Internship at The Ohio State University
Trinity College, Connecticut, B.A. with honors, 1973
Privacy policy
This privacy policy sets out how David Freeman Consulting Group uses and protects any information that you give the David Freeman Consulting Group when you use this website.
The David Freeman Consulting Group is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
The David Freeman Consulting Group may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from May 25, 2018.
What information do we collect from you?
We may collect the following information:
- Contact information including email address
Why do we collect this information?
We collect information about you to process your order, respond to your request(s) for information, manage your information, and, if you agree, post offers of other products and/or services that we offer.
How will we use the information about you?
We use your information collected from the website to personalize your repeat visits to the website.
Who might we share your information with?
If you agree, we will pass on your personal information to our related companies so that they may offer you their products and services.
We will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside of the David Freeman Consulting Group. We will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside of the David Freeman Consulting Group.
What do we do with your information?
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to dfreeman@davidfreemanconsulting.com.
How long do we keep your information?
We keep your information indefinitely, or unless you tell us you do not what us to keep it anymore.
How can I restrict collection or use of the information you hold about me?
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Opt-out: whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
- Withdraw permission: if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at dfreeman@davidfreemanconsulting.com.[email address]
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.
How do I correct errors in the information you hold about me?
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Jim Staples
Coach
jim@jimstaplesconsulting.com
Jim is the principal of Jim Staples Consulting, LLP, and he helps clients grow by designing and building their brands, their marketing teams, and their focus on business development. He started his career as a teacher, and that experience is critical to the approach he brings to his work now.
“I used to think that I’ve had two separate careers: one as a high-school teacher, coach, and administrator, and one as a marketer,” he says. “I now see them as blended, and that my role is to teach professional service providers how to brand and go to market effectively, and how to bring in business. This combination of skills is, to my knowledge, unique. I know how to listen, take different approaches depending on the firm or individual, and use warmth and humor to get even the most introverted subject matter expert to see that a strong brand, focused marketing, and the skills of business development are manageable and achievable.”
Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity, Jim is a key advisor to a management team. He has a positive, collaborative leadership style, and outstanding written and oral communication skills. For more than a decade, he served as the Chief Marketing Officer for three Am Law 200 law firms: Fox Rothschild, Cozen O’Connor, and Miles & Stockbridge. In each case, he led the firm through a rebranding process and helped modernize the firm’s marketing and business development initiatives. Prior to his law firm experience, Jim was the VP of Global Marketing for Right Management and was national brand and marketing manager for Invisible Fence Company.
Jim holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton University and a master’s degree in English Literature from Villanova University. Jim lives in Devon, PA, with his wife, Cathy, who teaches in the English Department and Honors Program at Villanova University and has published two books of poems. Jim and Cathy have three grown children, Claire, Natalie, and Kevin.
Education
Villanova University, Master’s in English Literature
Princeton University, B.A. in Philosophy
Privacy policy
This privacy policy sets out how David Freeman Consulting Group uses and protects any information that you give the David Freeman Consulting Group when you use this website.
The David Freeman Consulting Group is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
The David Freeman Consulting Group may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from May 25, 2018.
What information do we collect from you?
We may collect the following information:
- Contact information including email address
Why do we collect this information?
We collect information about you to process your order, respond to your request(s) for information, manage your information, and, if you agree, post offers of other products and/or services that we offer.
How will we use the information about you?
We use your information collected from the website to personalize your repeat visits to the website.
Who might we share your information with?
If you agree, we will pass on your personal information to our related companies so that they may offer you their products and services.
We will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside of the David Freeman Consulting Group. We will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside of the David Freeman Consulting Group.
What do we do with your information?
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to dfreeman@davidfreemanconsulting.com.
How long do we keep your information?
We keep your information indefinitely, or unless you tell us you do not what us to keep it anymore.
How can I restrict collection or use of the information you hold about me?
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Opt-out: whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
- Withdraw permission: if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at dfreeman@davidfreemanconsulting.com.[email address]
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.
How do I correct errors in the information you hold about me?
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
