Thought Leadership

Sonya Sigler is available for keynotes, speaking, training, workshops or panel discussions. Please call 650-593-8281 to schedule a talk or workshop.

Books

WELCOME to the Next Level: 3 Secrets to Become Unstuck, Take Action, and Rise Higher in Your Career. Author.
WELCOME to the Next Level Workbook
What’s Next for My Career? Your Guide to Deciding to Leave Your Stable Job to Follow Your Passion. Author.
What’s Next for My Career? Workbook
Coming Soon: Set Yourself Up for Success – Join the Book Launch Team

Online Courses

In the News

Thrive Global Interview – Female Disruptor: Sonya Sigler can help you resolve your legal dispute without lawyers
Authority Magazine medium.com – Sonya Sigler

Selected Past Speaking Engagements & Workshops:

2020 January – Singapore. INSEAD Alumni Group: Networking with a Purpose Workshop. Speaker.
2019 October 28 – Phoenix, AZ. ACC Annual Meeting. Coaching Clinic. Speaker/Coach. Navigating Ethical Landmines: Protecting your CEO, C-Suite and Board. Speaker/Panelist.
2019 October 5 – Irvine, CA. Women in eDiscovery. Imposter Syndrome. Speaker/Panelist.
2019 September 4 – Palo Alto, CA. Lean In Palo Alto. 3 Secrets to Rising Higher in Your Career. Speaker.
2019 July 18 – Orange County, CA. Vistage Women in Leadership: Authentic Personal Branding Workshop, Speaker.
2018 June 27 – Los Angeles, CA. Vistage Women in Leadership: Authentic Personal Branding Workshop, Speaker.
2019 June 13 – Mountain View, CA. Santa Cara County Bar Association Women in Law Symposium. Networking with a Purpose. Speaker.
2019 June 12 – San Diego, CA. Women in eDiscovery. Mentors & Why They Matter. Speaker.
2019 May 19 – Squirrel Island, ME. Authentic Personal Branding Workshop. Speaker.
2019 April 2 – Singapore. Salesforce. 3 Secrets to Rising Higher in Your Career.
2019 January 24 – Singapore. INSEAD Alumni Group: Authentic Personal Branding Workshop, Speaker.
2018 December 13 – Santa Clara, CA. Mobile Iron Women’s Group: Authentic Personal Branding Workshop, Speaker.
2018 December 7 – San Jose, CA. Vistage TA Group 1123: Authentic Personal Branding Workshop, Speaker.
2018 December 4 – Menlo Park , CA. International Women’s Leadership Forum 2018. Lessons on Leadership, panelist.
2018 October 8 – Turner, ME. Authentic Personal Branding Workshop. Speaker.
2018 October 4 – Santa Clara, CA. Mission College, Guest Lecturer on Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs
2018 August 14 – Sunnyvale, CA. Women in eDiscovery, Silicon Valley Chapter: Is Artificial Intelligence Transforming the Legal Sector? Moderator
2018 August 12 – Hayward, CA. Operation Un-plugged. Organizational Day. Boss Lady.
2018 August 1 – Palo Alto, CA. Lean In – Personal Branding Workshop. Speaker.
2018 July 13-15 – Aromas, CA. Executive Retreat. Speaker.
2018 June 14 – Mountain View, CA. Santa Cara County Bar Association – From Having it All to Leaning In. Personal Branding Workshop. Speaker.
2018 June 10 – San Carlos, CA – Vision Board Workshop. Host, Speaker.
2018 March 8 – San Jose, CA. Notre Dame High School: Goal Setting and Personal Branding Workshops. Speaker
2018 February 8 – San Jose, CA. Notre Dame High School: Top 10 Tips to Manage Your Career. Speaker.
2018 January 13, 20 – San Carlos, CA. Vision Board Workshops. Host, Speaker.
2017 November 7 – San Jose, CA. Defend Trade Secrets Act 2016, Preventing Misappropriation. Speaker.
2017 April 25 – San Francisco, CA. The Master Conference. Surfacing Legal Business Intelligence from Case Management to Case Intelligence. Moderator.
2017 February 15 – San Jose CA. Hopkins & Carley. Fast, Fair & Economic Resolutions When Stakes are Limited.
2017 January 21 – San Carlos, CA. Goal Setting & Vision Board Workshop. Speaker.
2016 July 13 – Healdsburg, CA. HR Professionals. Top 10 Tips for Managing Your Career, plus Personal Branding Workshop. Speaker.
2016 June 29 – Palo Alto, CA. Benchmark in Litigation. Career Path panel. Panelist.
Benchmark in Litigation – In-House Career Path panel
2016 April 29 – Sonoma, CA. Vistage International CEO Group. Dispute Resolution Techniques. Speaker.
2016 March 10 – Pleasanton, CA. Vistage International CEO Group. Dispute Resolution Techniques. Speaker.
2016 February 28 – San Carlos, CA. Goal Setting & Vision Board Workshop. Speaker.
2016 January 6 – San Carlos, CA. Personal Branding Workshop. Speaker.
2015 December 3 – San Jose, CA. Vistage International Trusted Advisor Group 1123. Goal Planning and Vision Setting. Workshop.
2015 November 9 – Marin, CA. Marin County Bar Association. Preventing Runaway Costs and Domino Delays.
2015 October 22 – Palm Springs, CA. Associate General Contractors (California) Annual Meeting. Runaway Costs and Domino Delays: Innovative Ways to Resolve Subcontractor Disputes. Speaker with Rob Christopher.
2015 June 11 – Palo Alto, CA. Women in eDiscovery Silicon Valley. Goal Planning and Vision Setting. Workshop.
2015 February 18 – Alameda, CA. Women of WIndriver. Top 10 Tips for Managing Your Career. Workshop. Speaker with Graciela Tiscareno-Sato.
2015 February 11 – East Palo Alto, CA. Women in eDiscovery Silicon Valley. Technology Assisted Review (TAR) What it is. What it isn’t. Speaker and moderator for group discussion.
2015 January 15, – East Palo Alto, CA. Women in eDiscovery Silicon Valley. New Year, New You. Top 10 Tips for Managing Your Career. Speaker with Graciela Tiscareno-Sato.
2014 July 14 – Laguna Beach, CA. SoCal eDiscovery & Information Governance Retreat. eDiscovery Comes of Age – What Does the Future Hold? Panel speaker along with Cynthia Augello (Moderator), Nicolas Nunez, Greg Chan, Gordon Calhoun, and Martin Mayne.
2014 May 30 – Sausalito, CA. NorCal eDiscovery & Information Governance Retreat. Multiple Matter eDiscovery Management – The Next Step in eDiscovery Cost Control. Panel speaker along with Gail Gottehrer (Moderator), Allan Hsu, Mary Novacheck, and Tauri Schow.
2014 March 17 – San Francisco, CA. Today’s General Counsel Institute – The Exchange.
2013 December 11-12 – Los Angeles, CA. E-Discovery for the Corporate Market – The Exchange, Technology Assisted Review.
2013 October 23 – San Francisco, CA. Managed eDiscovery Solutions: Which Way Now?
2013 July 29 – Laguna Beach, CA. EDD Project Management & Team Roles. Panel speaker along with Gail Gottehrer (Moderator), Wendy Axelrod, and Christopher Acosta.
2013 July 24 – San Francisco, CA. Webinar Demystifying Technology Assisted Review, Part 5: Practice Tips and Dispelling Myths. Speaker and Moderator along with Paige Hunt and Chris Mammen.
2013 July 1 – San Diego, CA. Practical Approaches to Creating and Implementing Rule 26 Discovery Plans. Panel speaker along with Browning Marean (Moderator), Corey Lee, B. Jay Yelton III, and William Kammer.
2013 May 1 – Half Moon Bay, CA. CVEDR. An Analytical Primer: Assessing the Pros & Cons of Established & Emerging Review & Analysis Paradigms. Panel speaker along with George Socha (Moderator), Jennifer Hamilton, Amor Esteban, and Erin Pope.
2013 March 27 – San Francisco, CA. Webinar Demystifying Technology Assisted Review, Part 4: Getting Started with TAR.
2012 December 13 – Palo Alto, CA. Are You Over-Spending? The Future of Document Review in Litigation. Panel speaker along with Pallab Chakraborty, Paige Hunt, Andrew Sieja, and Dan Cooperman (Moderator).
2012 November 7 – San Francisco, CA. Webinar Demystifying Technology Assisted Review, Part 3: Deconstructing the Technology.
2012 August 29 – San Francisco, CA. Webinar Demystifying Technology Assisted Review, Part 2: A Deeper Dive Into the Technology.
2012 August 1 – Chicago, IL. ABA EDDE Committee Meeting, Can a Computer Do It Better, Faster, Cheaper? A Discussion of Predictive Coding. Panel speaker along with Judge Peck, Maura Grossman (Moderator), Martin Tully, and Jeffrey Sharer.
2012 June 27 – San Francisco, CA. Webinar Demystifying Technology Assisted Review, Part 1: Everything You Need to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask).
2012 June 2 – Washington, DC. Georgetown Law School – Guest Lecturer, eDiscovery Class, Ron Hedges, Adjunct Professor. Lecture on Litigation Holds, Preservation & Search Technologies.
2012 May 22 – Los Angeles, CA. ACC Corporate Counsel University. Social Media for Novices.
2012 April 20, 23, May 11, 15, 18, 29 – San Francisco, CA. Private Training. Introduction to Advanced Search and Retrieval Methodologies.
2012 February 4 – Washington, DC. Georgetown Law School – Guest Lecturer, eDiscovery Class, Ron Hedges, Adjunct Professor. Lecture on Litigation Holds, Preservation & Search Technologies.
2012 January 18 – Charlotte, NC – Judges in North Carolina. 26(f) Preparation
2012 January 11 – Palo Alto, CA Women in eDiscovery – Predictive Coding Demystified, Part 2, Hearing from Corporations.
2011 September 9 – Palo Alto, CA Women in eDiscovery – Predictive Coding Demystified, The Technology Explained.
2011 June 4 – Washington, DC. Georgetown Law School – Guest Lecturer, eDiscovery Class, Ron Hedges, Adjunct Professor. Lecture on Litigation Holds, Preservation & Search Technologies.
2011 January 29 – Washington, DC. Georgetown Law School – Guest Lecturer, eDiscovery Class, Ron Hedges, Adjunct Professor. Lecture on Litigation Holds, Preservation & Search Technologies. Prior guest lecture appearances in 2009 and 2010.
2010, October 23-26 – San Antonio, TX. Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting – moderator and speaker: 1) ACC Chair’s Choice: eDiscovery – Nuts, Bolts & Building Plan; and 2) Social Media for Novices (Part 2): How Do You Protect Your Company from It?
2010 October, 7-8 – Phoenix, AZ. Sedona Conference Working Group 1 Annual Meeting. Participant. (Every Sedona WG1 meeting, annual or half-year, since 2004)
2010, October 5 – Charlotte, NC. Privately hosted CLE – Practical Guide to Corporate eDiscovery.
2010 May 4 – Orlando, FL. Private CLE. Introduction to Advanced Search and Retrieval Techniques.
2010 March 9 – Orlando, FL. Private CLE. 4 Proven Strategies to Reduce eDiscovery Costs and Improve Review Results. (This was given in other locations as well).
2009 December 1-2 – Washington, DC. The Seventh General Counsel Roundtable. The Economist Roundtable.
2009 October 28-29, Sedona, AZ. Patent Litigation Conference.
2009 June 8-12 Barcelona, Spain. DESI, iCAIL, Sedona Working Group 6 (International). See the attached paper given at the DESI workshop.

Other speaking engagements are extensive in topic, scope, geography and audience: Legal Tech, Georgetown, iQPC, ACC, WiE, ABA, CA state Bar, TX state Bar, WA State Bar, and ACC regional events, Corporate Counsel events, law school training, and many other events since 2004.

Selected Private CLE Training

Berliner Cohen – San Jose, CA 2017
Hopkins & Carley – San Jose, CA 2017
Royse Law Firm – Menlo Park, CA 2017
Procopio – Menlo Park, CA 2015
Hogan Lovells – San Francisco, CA 2013
Perkins Coie – Seattle, WA 2013
DLA Piper – San Francisco, CA 2013
Jones Day – Orange County, CA 2013
Perkins Coie – Denver, CO 2012
Bankers Insurance – Tampa, FL 2010
Akerman Senterfitt – Orlando, FL 2010
Dewey LeBouef – East Palo Alto, CA 2009
King & Spalding – Atlanta, GA 2008
Wiley Rein – Washington, DC 2007
Cooley Godward – Palo Alto, CA 2006

Videos, Podcasts, & Other Content

In the House – GCtv – Interview
No Limits Lifecode – Book interview for “the morning after the leap”
Sonya Sigler Interview by Marie Grace Berg – Episode 244
Pivotal Discovery Interview
Intellectual Property at Software Companies presentation at Santa Clara University
Controlling Cost and Risk in Today’s Fast Changing World, Part 2 seminar