ANGELA “ANGIE” HICKEY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEVENFELD PEARLSTEIN, LLC
Company: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC Industry: Legal CEO: Robert A. Romanoff Employees: 110 Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
TRANSPARENCY AT HEART OF BUSINESS OPERATION Angela Hickey oversees business operations at one of Chicago’s premier law firms, leading through a philosophy that change is driven by trust, which comes from transparency. Over the past 17 years, Hickey has been instrumental in refining Levenfeld Pearlstein’s core values. It is encapsulated in the LP Way – the business strategy that aligns firm initiatives, processes, and systems to ensure an exceptional client experience.
Living out the value of transparency, she conducts popular ‘Ask Angie’ town-hall sessions, inviting lawyers and staff to ask questions, provide feedback, and learn about firm planning.
As the firms’ executive director, Hickey holds a seat on its most influential governing bodies, the Executive Committee and the Compensation Committee. She has used her influence there to broaden male-dominated perspectives and Her colleagues say she is dedicated systems within the firm and has put to transforming process improvement in place the LP Women’s Group. She said the key is connecting the and creating opportunities for firm’s strategic goals to the inclusion others. Combining innovation imperative of talent at every level. and transparency, Hickey recently developed an internal dashboard that In a world where upward mobility provides key performance indicators is viewed as career development, she to practice leaders and attorneys. The has preferred to live her own motto tool ads another layer of credibility of ‘Lead where you are’, something in management of clients, groups, she has done throughout her career. and practices. “Many women wait to be called on instead of jumping in to make a
contribution. Leaders don’t wait – they participate. I follow the mantra of asking for forgiveness instead of for permission,” she said. “As a leader, I encourage experimentation and highlight my own failed experiments so that others may be comfortable with testing new ideas and with trying new ways of doing things,” she said. In the community, she has overseen a strategic partnership between LP and Chicago Community Kitchens, and devoted her personal time and talents to the Girls Scout’s Camp CEO, the Board of Advisors of the Catholic Charities of Chicago, and the Advisory Board for the College of Business at Governors State University. Hickey is a CPA and holds an MBA from DeVry University and a BS in accounting from Governors State University.. PDJ
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