September 18, 2025 | Pam Cox to Moderate “Why Leadership Presence is Key to Handling Difficult Conversations: A Neuroscience Approach”

Pam Cox, Partner and Chair of the IP Transactions Practice, will host a virtual webinar on September 18, 2025, as part of the Licensing Executive Society International’s (LESI) Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA) Speaker Series, which she Chairs. 

Speaker Gina Steele, President and CEO at Steele Leadership Inc., will present “Why Leadership Presence is Key to Handling Difficult Conversations: A Neuroscience Approach.” Gina Steele was a patent litigator and prosecutor for many years. She worked at both large law firms and IP boutiques before founding her own IP law firm. After learning a lot about leadership along the way - often through trial and error - she became a leadership coach to help other professionals succeed. She is passionate about helping smart professionals ascend to leadership roles while staying true to themselves. She received her Executive Coaching Certification from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business, holds a certificate in the Neuroscience of Business from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is a certified mediator. In addition to being the President and CEO of Steele Leadership, Inc., she currently serves as the President of the Women’s IP Lawyer’s Association (WIPLA) in Silicon Valley.

As a patent attorney who has worked in-house, Pam Cox’s practice focuses on unraveling complex deal structures and devising creative agreement solutions as well as IP protection strategies and alternative dispute resolution for clients ranging from multinational corporations to non-profit institutions. A long-time active supporter of advancing the licensing profession and governance, Pam is Past Corporate Secretary and six-year Member of the Board of the Licensing Executive Society International (LESI), Co-Founder and Chair of the Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA), the former President of the Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc., and multi-term former Member of the Board, frequent invited international presenter and instructor including for AUTM, and an adjunct professor of Intellectual Property Licensing at Northwestern School of Law.

LESI is an association of 33 national and regional societies whose members have an interest in the transfer of technology or intellectual property licensing. Every LESI member can join WILA and non-members may join the speaker series webinars. Learn more and register for Pam’s webinar here.