Senior Organization Development Consultant
CurrentJoy Harrison-Abiola is a leading legal management professional with over 25+ years of experience in the Legal industry. Joy recently retired from Dentons ACAS-LAW after 22 years as the Practice Administrator, where she provided strategic leadership in managing the firm's business operations. During her career at Dentons ACAS-LAW she facilitated the successful onboarding of sixteen partners, designing and implementing an integrated strategy for identifying, coordinating, and supporting the onboarding process. Joy is a certified Organization Development, Leadership, and Business transformation consultant. She acts as an advisor to several partnerships, offering subject matter input into strategy formation and implementation. She was recently appointed as the Chair of the IBA Law Firm Management CEO Subcommittee. Her passion is to increase organizational efficiency and to “get everyone to work at their peak.” She is a facilitator, Center for Organization Leadership & Development (COLD) - ZimbabweIn 2008, Joy was instrumental in putting together the first law firm management development program (MDP) at the Lagos Business School (‘’LBS”) Pan African University in collaboration with the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) Illinois USA. She possesses a demonstrated track record in advocating and interacting with law firm leaders to institutionalize business best practices in their law firms. Joy believes that management in a law firm is not an appendage, but it is core.Joy is a columnist with ThisDay Newspaper, her column, “From the Back Office” explores what law firms need to do to remain competitive and relevant in today’s economic climate. It also looks at ways to re-engineer and awaken the dynamics of the contribution of the legal management professionals, to better position them to provide cutting-edge solutions. She has authored articles like, New Wigs – Surviving the First Years, Any Vision for your Practice? Covid-19 and Keeping Staff Loyalty, etc.
