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Leading by Instinct: Hannele Korhonen on Reimagining Law from the Inside Out

Ben Chiriboga, Hannele Korhonen

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July 28, 2025

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Season 3 Episode 30

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What if legal innovation starts within? In this episode of This Legal Life, Hannele Korhonen joins Ben Chiriboga to share her extraordinary journey from in-house counsel to legal entrepreneur, coach, and PhD researcher in intuition. Through design thinking, radical self-inquiry, and soul-level leadership, Hannele offers a new vision for what legal careers—and legal change—can look like when we stop pushing and start listening.

This episode is for lawyers ready to lead from the inside out.

Meet our Guest:

Hannele Korhonen is a Business Design & Innovation Coach and PhD researcher exploring how intuition can spark radical innovation in law and design. She’s the founder of Lawyers Design School, a global learning-first legal design platform that helps legal professionals reimagine their work through legal design thinking.

A former corporate lawyer, she has founded her own law firm and co-founded a legal tech startup. Today, she coaches purpose-driven entrepreneurs and legal creatives to design scalable, soul-aligned businesses using design thinking, the same method trusted by the world’s most innovative companies. Her work weaves together practical tools, research, empathy, creativity, and intuition to help clients build human-centered services that feel as good as they work.

Whether through her signature program The Freedom Incubator, custom workshops, or 1:1 coaching, Hannele’s mission is to support a future where business is soulful, law is human, and the people doing the work feel free.

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