If you are in the business of creating change, how do you approach the critical first step: getting decision-makers to agree that change is necessary?

Our last few podcast installments profiled new models for changing the workforce.  In this episode, we talk to people who are leading the way in building consensus around implementing change.  The topic is near and dear to our hearts, as the Opt In project transitions from our first year of identifying innovative solutions to our current focus on implementing those solutions across industries.

We talk to Karen Lockwood, partner at Howrey LLP in Washington DC and former President of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, about how she put together a working group of managing law firm partners to develop recommendations about changing the legal industry to support and retain women.  They produced a report, Creating Pathways (www.wbadc.org), outlining model policies and meaningful ways to get individual firms to implement them.

We also hear from Kathleen Bradley, attorney and Career Development Coach at Arent Fox, who shares her experience putting a women's initiative in place at her firm.  She talks about how she put together a comprehensive report that builds the case for implementing change.