Mark C. Daly, JD, has been coaching professionals since the day he opened his first law firm in 2002. A licensed California attorney with 25 years of experience building and managing law practices, Mark was transformed early in his career by a fast, effective coaching method rooted in NLP and the principles of Michael Gerber’s E-Myth. He went on to coach his own staff — watching breakthroughs unfold in real time — and never stopped. Today, Actualis combines everything he has learned as a lawyer, a firm builder, and a coach into one place.
In our 1 hour and 2 hour programs, Actualis will teach you how your personality style and internalized saboteurs can become a brutal source of unhealthy beliefs, thoughts and action that negatively impact your performance as an attorney. This awareness will allow you to mitigate their negative impacts and move forward towards healthy beliefs, thoughts and behaviors that positively impact all areas of your professional and personal life.
State Bar associations have sounded the alarm about the poor state of attorney wellness, and the lack of support provided by law office organizations. Our OASIS Leadership and Management training and consulting services works with organizations, leadership and staff to help design and actualize positive workplace culture. We create customized programs depending on the needs of your organization. We have trained organizations using DISC, Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Emyth Mastery, and many other programs. Our normal engagement lasts for 6 months to 1 year and includes at least 4 trainings.
It is not enough attorneys to just “know the law”. Unlike other professions, attorneys have critical ethical duties and burdensome competency requirements that demand high levels of personal performance, year in and year out. Failure to properly perform any of these broad mandates can lead to complaints, public reprimands, suspension and debarment. Legal knowledge is essential, but in order to thrive in this environment, you must master the fundamentals of Leadership, Management, Finances, Physical Health and Mental Health.
Furthermore, lawyer’s need mentors and coaches who understand the unique challenges of being a lawyer.
Even before becoming an attorney in 1999, I learned how to develop my personal and professional skills by attending workshops, educating myself, getting peer support, and hiring professional coaches and therapists. I learned how to bring out the best in myself, my companies and the teams I supervised in my legal career. Over the past 25 years as an attorney I have become a certified professional coach and a certified Shadow Work ® coach and facilitator. I am a Registered, Non-Licensed Therapist in the State of Colorado with strict duties of confidentiality, which is very necessary when working with attorneys! I have taken courses in Voice Dialogue, Gottman Marriage Counseling and Emotionally Focused Therapy. I have used these skills to coach executives, managing and associate attorneys, as well as support staff, to become more satisfied and successful practicing law. Since 2004 I have been a registered CLE provider. I have coached and mentored dozens of attorneys in law office start up, practice management, and immigration law fundamentals.
I have been an immigration attorney for 26 years. In the beginning, I struggled financially, emotionally, physically and spiritually. I have been married, divorced, and finally remarried in 2010. As a single dad dealing with a traumatic divorce, I know what it is like to mismanage a law office, break rules of competence and act unethically. Through it all, I have managed to learn from my mistakes and gain mastery in the 5 fundamental areas of attorney wellness – Leadership, Management, Finances, Mental Health and Physical Health. I twice started, built up, managed, and sold successful law practices in Nashville and Denver, and now I am financially free. I maintain excellent and loving relationships with my wife and grown children, and I have a great relationship with my extended family and even my ex-wife! In 2025, my wife and I went on a one-year sabbatical around the world to learn, grow, relax and enjoy life. I gained a better understanding of myself, and decided to become an inactive attorney and launch Actualis Attorney Wellness. My primary aim is to help attorneys feel good, enjoy life, and do the right thing.
Here are the list of programs that I have developed:
ONE HOUR PROGRAMS:
1. | SECRETS TO ACTUALIZE ATTORNEY WELLNES | The neurology and psychology of chronic stress, sleep deprivation and substance use disorders degrade your ability to thrive as a lawyer. Professional wellness and mastery require you to first understand your personality style, internalized saboteurs and the conflicts they create. You will learn how to successfully transform your unhealthy beliefs and patterns that negatively impact your performance into new patterns of success. |
2. | 5 STEPS TO ACTUALIZE ATTORNEY WELLNESS | Learn the 5 Quick Steps to transform painful challenges that keep you stuck in unhealthy patterns that negatively effect your performance. This “system of transformation” we call LAICE will allow you to methodically and reliably actualize your professional goals as an attorney. |
3. | MANAGE 4 TYPES OF ATTORNEYS | Learn the DISC Personality Style system to understand your strengths and challenges in actualizing professional and personal wellness. Your personality style will keep you stuck in ongoing conflicts with others and amplify unhealthy patterns that negatively impact your performance as an attorney. You will learn how to assess others and the WIR-LA conflict management tool. |
4. | ACTUALIZE ATTORNEY COMPETENCE WITH ILLEGAL DRUG USE | Attorneys suffer from substance use disorders at twice the rate of the general population. Review the legal requirements to intervene, how to identify illegal drug use in attorneys, and how to have difficult, but mandatory, conversations that can save a life and a career. |
5. | ACTUALIZE ATTORNEY COMPETENCE WITH LEGAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE | Attorneys suffer from substance use disorders at twice the rate of the general population. Learn how to assess your use and other’s use of alcohol, cannabis and caffeine. Learn how to promote a clean culture in your law office, and how to have difficult, but mandatory, conversations and interventions that can increase productivity, and save a career. |
6. | Do The Right Thing: ACTUALIZE AN UNBIASED AND DIVERSE LAW FIRM = QBQ and NVC | Successful Attorneys know how to treat clients and other attorneys with the highest levels of loyalty and advocacy. Understanding implicit bias will create more productive and honest relationships in your life and career. Learn how to set healthy boundaries and take feedback around issues that can cause stress and damage working relationships. Becoming an ally with others will also create a positive impact in your community and improve your client satisfaction. |
7. | ACTUALIZE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ATTORNEYS | Research shows that successful professional performance is more dependent on emotional intelligence than skill level or educational background. This skill is essential for Leaders of law firms, Managers of teams, or any Attorney who wants to get more clients and maintain valuable, long term relationships. Learn how to assess EQ in yourself and others, how to increase your emotional intelligence, and how to incorporate it into your lead conversion and client fulfillment systems to create a competitive advantage in the marketplace. |
8. | ACTUALIZE ETHICAL ATTORNEY FEE SETTING | Fee setting is both an art and a science. Determining your worth in the marketplace is a critical aspect of your work as an Attorney. We will review the fundamentals of setting reasonable fees and train you in using flat fees with hourly rates to create the highest value of services for yourself and your clients. We will also review contingency fee strategies and collection systems to create steady cash flow. |
9. | ACTUALIZE SUCESSFUL MONEY MANAGEMENT FOR ATTORNEYS | Attorneys have high rates of discipline events in mismanaging client funds. We will review how to create a comprehensive money management system that will allow you to always know how much money you have coming in and going out, and how to keep up with cash flow projections and emergency funds. |
10. | ACTUALIZE SUCESSFUL PARTNERSHIPS AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS | Learn how to maintain loving family relationships with your partner and children. Using research based tools, understand your personality and attachment styles that can sabotage your relationships despite your best efforts. Learn how to heal breakdowns in family relationships and repair ongoing conflicts. |
11. | ACTUALIZE COMPLETE WELLNESS FOR ATTORNEYS | Attorney wellness requires knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Learn a wholistic approach to creating professional mastery and a successful career for the long term. Understand your blocks and blind spots in the four areas of your life that animate you and work for you all day, every day. |
12. | ACTUALIZE CONNECTIONS TO HEAL ATTORNEY LONELINESS | Mental Health research show us that loneliness is linked to high risk behaviors and depression. Overworking harms relationships and your self esteem, and is common among attorneys but not required to create a meaningful and lucrative career. |
13. | ACTUALIZE GOOD HABITS AND DAILY ROUTINES FOR ATTORNEYS | Can Attorneys be healthy and satisfied? Research show that most attorneys have suffered a great deal in their careers and have regrets and remorse. We show you how your personality pre-disposes you to certain predictable negative behaviors as an Attorney and provide transformational experiences to break out of your cycle of misery, |
14. | ACTUALIZE SPIRITUAL PRACTICES FOR ATTORNEYS | Are your spiritual beliefs helping you in your career? Many attorneys do not take the time to create spiritual practices that support mastery and success for themselves. Spiritual beliefs and experiences are a valuable resource to keep you feeling good and secure in the future, despite overwhelming problems and anxiety. |
15. | ACTUALIZE HEALING ATTORNEY ADDICTION TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL | Learn about intergenerational cycles and patterns of behaviors and beliefs that lead to substance use disorders. Research shows that many different types of trauma and coping strategies can keep you stuck in the pattern of addiction. Experience a transformational process to heal the cycle of addiction and find support to bring you new relationships with drugs and alcohol. |
16. | ACTUALIZE MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION FOR ATTORNEYS | Learn about your inner critic and the negative behaviors you engage in to satisfy its judgements of you as an attorney. We all have to assess the risk of failure, and be accountable for past actions that have hurt ourselves and others. You will learn why your success and mastery as an attorney requires you to take risks, and how to negotiate a worst case scenario that probably won’t happen. |
17. | THE CYCLES OF ACTUALIZATION FOR ATTORNEYS | The cycles of life inform us about our place in our careers as attorneys. Learn this system for assessing your cycles of breakdowns, failure, and crisis and how to transform and break out of these cycles that repeat themselves day in and day out. |
TWO HOUR PROGRAMS
LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR ATTORNEYS | This comprehensive Leadership training is designed to support attorneys in becoming powerful, inspiring and ethical leaders of legal teams, working groups and organizations. Attorneys learn how to create effective strategies to improve their vision, alignment and execution abilities. Many attorneys do not know how to develop their leadership skills and are ineffective or toxic leaders. Attorneys will learn their core leadership style and attendant strengths and weaknesses. Attorneys learn how to create effective strategies to improve their ability to supervise the work of others. The course covers interpersonal communication, goal setting, law office management, client conflict and case management, and financial planning. |
MANAGEMENT TRAINING FOR ATTORNEYS | This comprehensive management training is designed to support attorneys in becoming powerful, inspiring and ethical managers of legal teams, working groups and organizations. Attorneys will learn their core personality style and attendant strengths and weaknesses as managers. The course covers interpersonal communication, goal setting, law office management, influencing team members, diversity and equity, client conflict and case management. |
MONEY MANAGER TRAINING FOR ATTORNEYS | This comprehensive financial planning training is designed to support attorneys in becoming powerful, inspiring and ethical managers of their money. Attorneys will learn their core personality style and attendant strengths and weaknesses as money managers. The course covers how to read balance sheets and profit and loss reports, attorney duties of trust and loyalty in dealing with money, goal setting, money management systems for law firms, influencing team members to preserve and expand company resources, fee setting and case management. |
MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING FOR ATTORNEYS | This comprehensive mental health training is designed to support attorneys in becoming self-actualized, resilient and inspiring team members, managers and leaders of law offices. Many attorneys do not know how to develop their mental health and suffer from anxiety, depression, addiction and loneliness. Attorneys will learn their core personality style and attendant strengths and weaknesses in maintaining their mental health. Attorneys learn how to create effective strategies to improve their attention and focus, self-esteem, personal integrity and spiritual core to become happy, healthy and wealthy lawyers. The course covers how to manage negative self talk, dealing with addictions and compulsions in yourself and others, understanding and healing trauma, creating viable work-life balance and using spirituality to sustain your commitments and integrity. |
PHYSICAL HEALTH TRAINING FOR ATTORNEYS | This comprehensive physical health training is designed to support attorneys in becoming self-actualized, resilient and inspiring team members, managers and leaders of law offices. Attorneys will learn their core personality style and attendant strengths and weaknesses in maintaining their physical health. Attorneys learn how to create effective strategies to improve their attention and focus, posture, cravings, chronic illnesses and overall physical performance in the duties of a busy attorney. The course covers how to manage sleep, weight, exercise, diet, and aging. |
RELATIONSHIP HEALTH TRAINING FOR ATTORNEYS | This comprehensive relationship health training is designed to support attorneys in repairing, reconnecting and becoming reliable, resilient and inspiring partners in all their relations. Many attorneys do not know how to develop satisfying relationships with their partners, friends, co-workers and children and suffer from anxiety, depression, addiction and loneliness. Attorneys will learn their core personality style and attendant strengths and weaknesses in maintaining healthy relationships at work and at home. Attorneys learn how to create effective strategies to improve their capacity to listen to others with compassion, give constructive and positive feedback, and speak their truth with care. Attorneys who have these skills have more energy for their careers, less drama at home, and increased overall satisfaction and resiliency in their lives. |