Catherine M. Alman-Macdonagh

Catherine Alman MacDonagh, JD is a former corporate counsel and law firm executive who now teaches and provides training and consulting services in process improvement and project management, strategic planning, marketing, and business development.

A Legal Lean Sigma® Black Belt and a certified Six Sigma Green Belt, Catherine is the CEO and a Founder of the Legal Lean Sigma® Institute. LLSI offers consulting and the first and only process improvement and project management certifications, courses, and consulting services specifically designed for the legal profession.

Catherine is also Chief Enthusiasm Officer of The Mocktail and the Legal Mocktail™, experiential networking training programs. She also has her own strategic planning, business development training, and coaching practice, FIRM Guidance. She is a Co-Founder of the Legal Sales and Service Organization, which presents the annual RainDance Conference.

Catherine is an adjunct professor at Suffolk Law School and at George Washington University (Master’s in Law Firm Management). She the author of Lean and Six Sigma in Law Firms published in 2014 and the co-author of two books, The Woman Lawyer's Rainmaking Game and The Law Firm Associate's Guide to Personal Marketing and Selling Skills.

She served on the Legal Marketing Association’s international board, as New England Chapter President and on many committee and task forces. Honors and awards Catherine has received include: Elected Fellow, College of Law Practice Management, Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, two years on the prestigious MLF 50 (Marketing the Law Firm Top 50) List, and several Legal Marketing Association Your Honor Awards.