Meet our team of consultants, including Paula Pepin, Legal Coach and Founder of LexGO

We are former in-house counsel and business executives, empathic to your struggle, offering a lean, boutique-style, tailored approach.

We do not pad the process or use a cookie-cutter strategy to solve our clients’ problems.

About LexGO

LexGO is a boutique consulting firm driving transformation within in-house legal departments.

Partnering with legal departments of all sizes, we take a hands-on, integrated approach to transform in-house legal teams into operationally focused, efficient and cohesive teams.

Meet the Team

A lean, smart, integrated approach
to legal department management.

Paula Pepin

Meet Paula
FOUNDER

I am a Legal and HR Executive with more than 20 years of experience leading organizations through scale, transformation and hypergrowth. I inspire other leaders to build high-functioning, cohesive teams. I am passionate about linking business operations, strategic execution and in-house legal strategy. I thrive mentoring General Counsel and ambitious in-house lawyers to become legal executives recognized as key contributors to an organization’s success.

When it comes to legal services, I believe legal departments need to rethink the way they provide and scale their services. I know how days are filled with meetings and emergencies and how difficult it is to find time to dedicate to strategic work. If you choose to partner with LexGO, we will help you become strategic. Our commitment is to create valuable and tangible deliverables that make you shine in front of your leadership team.

Meet Jenn
CONSULTANT

Jenn Smyth-Whelly

I am an executive leader, who has led strategic change within tech companies of varying sizes and stages of growth and have held leadership positions across the business, including Strategy & Operations, Professional Services, IT/Data, Product Management and Human Resources.

I am an expert at figuring how the pieces come together to make a business tick. I build high-performing teams and winning strategies through alignment and dialogue. My unique experience allows me to deliver high-value assets that elevate your legal team within the business.

Meet Kyla
CONSULTANT

Kyla Sandwith

I am a lawyer-turned-legal operations consultant and founder of De Novo Inc. I help clients streamline their operations for better financial results and for happier lawyers, team members, and clients. One client in the legal tech industry said about me: "she injects a little bibbity-bobbity magic, innovation and creative thinking, that makes problems disappear."

I am passionate about developing the next generation of professionals, and teach a course called "Leadership for Lawyers" at the UCalgary Faculty of Law. I approach leadership as a lifelong journey requiring the active development of foundational skills that support good leadership for the long term.

Meet Nicola-Jane
CONSULTANT

Nicola-Jane McNeill

I am a 25-year in-house legal veteran, skilled in a broad range of industries and growth stages. I enjoy operationalizing legal requirements and risk management concerns for stakeholders at all levels. Whether pioneering a department from the ground up or retooling an existing one, I prioritize pragmatism, efficiency and empowerment.

As a former GC and Corporate Secretary providing fractional services, I am no stranger to organizational change or disruption in its many forms and am an enthusiastic champion of the value that corporate counsel bring to the organizational table.