Strategic Leadership Development for Law Firms and High-Growth Organizations

I’m a strategic partner in helping you build the kind of leadership that drives results, creates a sustainable high performance culture, and retains top talent.

In today’s high-stakes environments—where complexity, performance, and expectations are constantly rising—your leaders need more than good intentions. They need the skills, self-awareness, and support to lead with clarity, courage, and authenticity. That’s where I come in.

If you want to feel differently, you have to be willing to do something differently. You have more power than you know to make anything happen for yourself.

-Arivee Vargas

For Law Firms & Organizations

Smart law firms and organizations know that developing lawyers and leaders isn't just about retention—it's about unleashing their full potential.

My leadership programs are a series of workshops and individual or group coaching to help you:

Retain and develop your top talent by providing an opportunity for meaningful leadership and personal development and address head-on the factors resulting in disengagement and employee turnover
Help leaders break through mindset barriers—like over-functioning, self-doubt, and fear of making mistakes—so they can lead with more confidence, clarity, and authenticity in high-stakes environments.
Strengthen core leadership capabilities that drive innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and sustainable high performance—while expanding influence and strategic impact.
Foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety by developing leaders who model emotional intelligence, resilience, and people-first leadership.
Understand your leaders’ strengths, performance and leadership risks, as well as their motivators, values and drivers through the Hogan Leadership Assessment suite. All coaching engagements leverage the Hogan Leadership Assessment suite (HPI, HDS, MVPI) — the most widely recognized, research-backed leadership assessment tool.

Measurable growth and impact typically emerge over at least six to twelve months, which is why engagements are designed for a minimum of six months.

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Executive Coaching

As part of broader engagements or on a standalone basis, I provide 1:1 coaching to senior associates, partners, and executives navigating inflection points.

My executive coaching supports leaders and lawyers in:

Expanding influence and amplifying their visibility and presence
Letting go of the maladaptive parts of perfectionism while maintaining excellence and leaning into the positive aspects of perfectionism (perfectionism isn’t all bad!)
Working and leading from a place of authentic strength, a strong sense of self, and a focus on unlocking the potential of their teams
Addressing real-time challenges
Managing their capacity and leading with more intention, effectiveness and impact

All coaching engagements are grounded in data-driven insight leveraging the Hogan Leadership Assessment suite (HPI, HDS, MVPI) — the most widely recognized, research-backed tool for understanding your strengths, potential blind spots & leadership risks, and your motivators, values, and drivers. It provides a powerful, evidence-based foundation for every coaching engagement.

Group Coaching

For organizations seeking to support their top talent in a co-hort based environment to enhance leadership capabilities, establish sustainable high performance practices, and create meaningful impact.

Custom-designed for forward-thinking organizations, my six-month to twelve-month group coaching programs deliver:

Proactive Talent Retention Management: Address the specific challenges facing your high-potential leaders long before or as retention concerns arise
Supportive Cohort-Based Learning: Build a supportive community of practice among your future leaders while developing critical capabilities
Scalable Development: Provide high-impact coaching to multiple leaders simultaneously, maximizing your professional development investment
Culture Transformation: Create ripple effects throughout your organization as participants bring new approaches back to their teams and their colleagues
Measurable Outcomes: Track progress of concrete behavioral changes and leadership effectiveness and impact through 360s.
All coaching engagements leverage the Hogan Leadership Assessment suite (HPI, HDS, MVPI) — the most widely recognized, research-backed leadership assessment tool — to understand your leaders’ strengths, performance and leadership risks, as well as their motivators, values and drivers.

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Still trying to decide if coaching is right for you?

Don’t just take my word for it. See what my clients say about how coaching has impacted their lives…

My sessions with Arivee helped me realize my optimal career path. Arivee's coaching approach was compassionate, impartial, and committed to achieving tangible goals. I realized that what I sought was not external but within myself. I could only uncover it through her approach of guiding me in dedicated introspection and challenging me with her questions. As an attorney, I was often constrained by conventional protocols. However, after my coaching sessions with Arivee, I felt inspired to challenge and reevaluate those norms in my professional and personal life. I have now integrated my professional and personal aspirations, leading me to a more fulfilling path forward. - D.H.
Coaching with Arivee opened my eyes to all possibilities— and made me see ALL possibilities as within reach. I was clearly the strong bridge to the possibilities of my wildest dreams. Arivee has a gift for asking very targeted questions that allow you to see the facts (and truths) of your accomplishments, strengths, and what you perceive to be roadblocks— so that those roadblocks can clear away to get you ready for taking off to those wildest dreams. - M.S.
Battling against mental fog (maintaining clarity) brought me to Arivee. A newly minted professional, my intuitive instincts seemed to be at odds with the culture and examples of success at my first job. The people pleaser in me wanted to oblige and do everything necessary to succeed, but this, I came to realize through our conversations, was inherently at odds with my deeply entrenched desire to live life freely and set necessary boundaries. Arivee is more than just a brilliant sounding board and dynamic personality, her thoughtful coaching approach makes me instantly comfortable.
I am most thankful for her introducing me to gratitude practice. It has dramatically shifted my mood and allows me to remain steadily grounded during 2020's turbulent times and beyond. - M.C.
I was really feeling stuck about where I should go with my career, should I stay or should I leave my current role and if I chose to leave what would I even do. I really love the job I have but worried about being stifled from getting to the next level and how much I had invested over the years that was maybe taking away from the life I had/could have had outside of work. A big question I had was what time, if any, would be the right time to make a leap and how would I know it's the right thing to do/I'd enjoy a new job as much as I love the one I am in.
The big a-ha moment for me was learning about some of the traits I had and how those traits not only impacted me professionally (what would be the jobs that made me tick if I chose to leave) but how they played a role in my life personally. I often think of those things now both at work but also at home and it's really helped me understand the things that are important to me and that make me feel good about things both at work and outside of work. - J.B.
When I sought out Arivee, I was struggling to balance all of my goals and interests. I was overwhelmed and not accomplishing anything because I lacked clarity and focus. I kept thinking myself in circles. Arivee not only helped me to see the truth I had deep down inside me, but helped me write my own permission slip. Working with Arivee helped me realize that I was letting fears hold me back and wasn’t standing in my truth. The clarity she helped me achieve allowed me to feel excited about and confident in moving forward with creating the life I have been dreaming for myself. - Ali C.
I’ve thrived and am proud to say I have maintained my boundaries and continued to strengthen them. Notably, I am much more comfortable saying no and keeping my peace as I silently maintain the boundaries I have set for myself. Thank you again for the impact you made on my professional and personal life.
- H.H.
Working with Arivee has been an absolute game-changer. She has a warm demeanor and is so intensely relatable that I felt comfortable opening up right away. It's rare to find someone who's not only genuinely cool to talk to but also has her level of deep, knowledgeable experience in both law and corporate settings. She just gets it! If you’re looking for guidance that's smart, strategic, and feels completely grounded, talk to Arivee!
- V.S.