Susan E. Guthrie

About

Most legal and dispute resolution professionals never chose the practice they're running. They inherited it, built it reactively, or defaulted into it because no one taught them another way. Very few designed it on purpose. I built Intentional Practice Design (IPD) to close that gap. After 35 years as a litigator, negotiator, and mediator, I left active practice to teach lawyers, mediators, and entrepreneurial professionals how to tell the difference between a practice that happened to them and one they actually designed. Learn the method, take the free assessment, and see the tools at intentionalpracticedesign.com. The Business Plan Playbook, launching September 29, introduces the IPD method in full. It joins The Flat Fee Playbook and The Thought Leadership Playbook as the third title in the Practice Playbook Series, three Amazon #1 Bestsellers available at intentionalpracticedesign.com along with the worksheets that go with them. Reading the framework is the diagnosis. The Practice Accelerator is where the redesign happens. It is the only coaching and training program built specifically for legal and ADR professionals ready to apply IPD to their own practice. Inside, you get: A structured path through IPD's three-path diagnostic, applied to your practice, not a hypothetical one. Monthly training on pricing, business foundations, AI integration, and visibility, from someone who has spent three decades inside this profession. Ongoing accountability and community with other practitioners doing the same work. Direct access to me and to tools most practitioners were never taught. This is not a course you finish once. It is where you keep applying IPD as your practice, and the profession, keeps changing. As Past Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, I bring a national view of where this profession is heading, and I bring that perspective directly into the Accelerator. I also host two podcasts. The Practice Playbook Podcast serves legal and ADR professionals growing their practices. Divorce & Beyond, a separate brand for people navigating divorce, ranks in the top 1% of all podcasts worldwide. If your practice is technically strong and financially frustrating, you are not alone, and you are not stuck. Enrollment is open now. Join The Practice Accelerator: https://susaneguthrie.com/accelerator