You know emotional intelligence matters.
We help lawyers build it.
What we do
Konora is a comprehensive learning system delivered through an easy-to-use app that helps lawyers increase their emotional intelligence (EQ). Lawyers, more than any other professional group, face particularly difficult obstacles when working to develop EQ-based skills. We provide tangible solutions designed to address these challenges and support lawyers as they encounter them.
Our approach
Konora accounts for the neurological fact that it typically takes 90 to 120 days to create new neuropathways in our brain. Our skill-based development model is divided into 90-day modules, each building on knowledge gained and skills practiced in the preceding module. You’ll complete one six-minute micro-course each day and unlock new micro-courses as you move through the modules.
Konora's interactive app guides users through daily micro-courses, professional development workshops, and practical exercises that:
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Provide long-term support through progressive stages of practicing EQ
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Address the specific developmental needs of lawyer personality types
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Account for the ethos of and professional realities within legal culture(s)
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Are easily incorporated into busy schedules
Why Konora is different.
Konora helps lawyers bridge the gap between knowing about EQ and doing what is needed to develop it.
Accessibility: Access to our app isn’t dependent on firm-wide adoption or purchasing expensive corporate consulting and coaching packages. Anyone who qualifies for an individual membership can download the app and join the community. Accessing Konora’s app on your smartphone makes on-the-go learning convenient and easy.
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Lawyer-specific curriculum: Konora helps lawyers navigate common individual barriers to increasing EQ, such as defensiveness, skepticism, and pessimism, as well as cultural barriers, including the devaluation of emotions, lack of time, and the imperative of perfectionism. We recognize lawyers’ preference for autonomous problem-solving and provide the tools they need to learn to manage their EQ growth independently.
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Confidentiality: You don’t have to learn EQ in a firm-based setting or be vulnerable in groups with your professional colleagues. Konora offers community engagement opportunities in which members use pseudonyms to interact with one another. Membership is personal, individual, and confidential.
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No AI-generated content or chatbots: ​Human experts create our curriculum. We don't use AI-generated content or offer an in-app AI chatbot that attempts to act like a human guide or companion. Reconnection requires human understanding. Algorithms will never heal decades of disconnection, and productivity frameworks can't help you find your way back home to your authentic self.
Why community is essential.
Konora's private, members-only community isn't a networking feature. It's a place to have open peer-to-peer conversations about your EQ journey without endangering your career.
We offer a professionally safe space where anonymity is protected and you can remove the performative mask. Here, admitting that you are struggling with an aspect of emotional or relational wellness doesn't threaten your reputation or career.
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Who we are.
Crystal Little
Co-Founder | CEO
A trauma-informed emotional intelligence educator, Crystal brings distinctive expertise to legal professional development by transforming how lawyers approach EQ and RQ. Her unique background combining over a decade of wellness and community building preceding deep legal industry immersion fuels her conviction that legal professionals deserve specialized, evidence-based learning models for their unique pressures and pathologies. As a 2025 vLex Fastcase 50 honoree, Crystal is dedicated to creating innovative wellbeing pathways for legal professionals.
Kendall Lazorchak
Co-Founder | CXO
Kendall brings nearly 20 years of experience architecting brand development, visual storytelling, and digital community engagement platforms in legal technology to her role as Konora’s co-founder. Her expertise in creating digital learning and community engagement platforms for legal professionals, along with award-winning web design/development capabilities, ensures that community members encounter her signature level of excellence throughout their Konora experience.
Konora's Advisory Board
Who we are.
Ronda Muir
Lawyer | Legal EQ Expert
Ronda Muir, Founder and Principal of Law People Management, LLC, and author of Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence, is one of the country’s leading authorities on the personal attributes of lawyers and the application of behavioral science to the legal workplace. Muir is a lawyer with both Big Law and inside counsel experience in the US and abroad. Grounded in the behavioral sciences, she provides psychologically sophisticated and business-savvy advice to maximize individual and organizational law practice performance in the 21st century.
Jeff Cox
Lawyer | Legal Tech Veteran
Jeff Cox, Esq. is a lawyer and legal tech veteran whose career spans the profession's major corners. He has worked in-house at Citigroup, led thought leadership strategy at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, and served as board chair at Bay Area Legal Services. Jeff has worked at multiple growth-stage companies, including vLex, where he was part of the team through its $1 billion acquisition by Clio, the largest legal tech acquisition in history. As the author of The Emersonian Lawyer, he brings Konora a full-field view of the challenges legal professionals face and a conviction that their humanity is worth protecting.
Vicki LaBrosse
Managing Director | Global PR Leader
Vicki is a strategic communications leader who helps legal technology and professional services organizations build trusted brands and meaningful industry influence. At Edge Marketing, she advises executive teams on thought leadership, media strategy, and market positioning, drawing on long-standing relationships across legal media, industry associations, and conference communities. She brings to Konora deep knowledge of the legal technology ecosystem and a passion for helping organizations foster authentic connections that strengthen both people and brands.
Who we are.
Melanie Prevost
Technology Leader | People-First AI Advocate
Melanie Prevost has spent 25+ years building trust-driven technology teams, currently as Senior Director of IT Infrastructure and Technical Support Services at Vinson & Elkins LLP. Her people-first advocacy for responsible AI adoption and governance is informed by years leading cloud systems, networks, data centers, information security, and technology support. With a passion for helping legal professionals connect with their humanity, Melanie brings to Konora her conviction that technology should help people reconnect rather than replace connection.
Colin S. Levy
Lawyer | Legal Technologist
Colin S. Levy serves as General Counsel at Malbek, an adjunct professor at Albany Law School, and a regular speaker at legal and technology conferences, podcasts, and webinars. Colin is a columnist for Today’s General Counsel, a Fastcase 50 honoree, CLOC Board Member, and a longtime writer on legal technology. His publications include The Legal Tech Ecosystem, co-authoring CLM for Dummies, and editing for the Handbook of Legal Tech. Colin’s latest book, Code Switched: A Lawyer’s Guide to the Era of AI, helps legal professionals understand and work through the practical issues AI raises.
TJ Johnson
Legal Technology Leadership | Strategic Advisor
TJ Johnson is a transformational leader and legal strategic advisor with extensive experience in legal technology leadership and technology strategy. A familiar and well-respected figure in the legal tech industry, TJ worked in various capacities for law firms, legal departments, and ILTA (International Legal Technology Association), where she provided organizational transformation, change management, and strategic management of complex project portfolios. She received the ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023 for her contributions to the legal sector.
As you read about Konora, did you start asking internal questions like:
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Why do I need to work on my EQ?
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How will this help me at work or at home?
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Lawyers don’t have time to work on EQ; is it really that important?
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Where’s the evidence supporting Konora’s claims about a low-EQ crisis in the legal sector?
We’re grateful you’re asking those questions. You’re curious and open to learning something new. Konora members are legal professionals who know the answers to the above questions and are ready for the next step in their EQ development.
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Where can you find answers to questions like the above? A simple search for “why lawyers need emotional intelligence” reveals hundreds of entry-level articles, blogs, and courses. Those are a great starting point.
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When you’re ready for the most comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-driven material on the subject, read Ronda Muir’s Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence.
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Then, when you’re ready for the next step, come back to Konora and fill out your membership application. We’re excited to welcome you into the community!
Our core principles:
Upholding our purpose-driven mission
We value the impact of Konora’s purpose – to support legal professionals who want to build their EQ – over sheer profitability.
Prioritizing individuals over corporate entities
Konora is built for lawyers who work within law firms, legal departments, as well as judicial systems, law schools, and law school students. We prioritize individual needs over those of organizational entities.
Evolving through member-focused growth
Konora uses asset-based community development models to guide organizational growth and service development.
Embracing tri-centric epistemology
We operate from a worldview that equally values intellectual, emotional, and embodied forms of knowledge.
Embodying human-centric sustainability
We prioritize the impact our choices have for both members and staff in decision-making strategies.
Are you looking for answers to questions like:
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Why do I need to work on my EQ?
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How will this help me at work or at home?
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Lawyers don’t have time to work on EQ; is it really that important?
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Where’s the evidence supporting Konora’s claims about a low-EQ crisis in the legal sector?
We’re grateful you’re asking those questions. It means that you’re curious and open to learning something new. You find answers to entry-level questions about EQ's relevance to and impact in the legal sector through a simple search for “why lawyers need emotional intelligence.” Start with material from respected sources, such as the American and International Bar Associations.
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If you want to go directly to the most comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-driven material on the subject, read Ronda Muir’s 2nd edition of Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence, published in 2025 by the ABA. Then, come back to Konora and fill out your membership application. We’re excited to welcome you into the community!