BIO

Elena Rand, JD, LMSW, has spent over 20 years working as an executive coach and leadership guru for Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 100 law firms throughout the world. Trained as a former NYC litigator, licensed psychotherapist, and certified executive coach Elena founded LawScope, LLC one of the first executive coaching companies to introduce executive coaching to the legal profession. She then went on to serve as the Chief Marketing Officer for Wiggin and Dana and Director of Business Development for Paul Weiss.

Elena is a highly sought-after leadership trainer, panel moderator, motivational speaker and executive coach. She has worked for such institutions as EY-Canada, Google, Guggenheim Partners, SONY, British Airways, Applied Insurance, The U.S. Department of Commerce Columbia Law School, Fordham Law School, University of Toronto School of Law, The Princeton Club of NY, The Legal Marketing Association, The Chicago Bar Association, The City Bar of New York, PLI and The NY State Bar Association among others.

Elena graduated from Princeton University, The Georgetown University Law Center, The NYU School of Social Work and completed a fellowship at the NYU Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Elena also received certification in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Meditation from the Yale University Stress Center and is also a licensed Level II Reiki Master.

Elena was inducted into the 200th Legione D’Oro of the Accademia Tiberina di Roma, and serves as an International U.S. Delegate for the Fodazione Accademia di Tiberina Pontificale, dedicated to the promotion of Latin and Italian science and letters and to the preservation of Roman art and culture. Elena is fluent in Italian, Sicilian, Hebrew and Spanish.

Elena is the mother of two children, step-mother to two children and splits her time between Woodstock, NY and Costa Rica where she lives with her husband and puppy, Federico, doing what she loves the most-writing books and coaching others.

Elena can be reached at www.elenarand.com and her online Achievement Addiction: DETOX workbook, resources and virtual courses can be found at www.AchievementAddictionDetox.com.