{{short description|American attorney, author and speaker}} {{Infobox person |name = Lauren Rikleen |image = |caption = |birth_date = |birth_place = Winthrop, Massachusetts, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |other_names = |known_for = |education = Brandeis University (BA)<br>Boston College Law School (JD) |occupation = Lawyer, author, speaker }}
'''Lauren Stiller Rikleen''' is an American attorney, author and speaker, trainer and consultant on workplace issues. Her two books focusing on the legal profession are ''Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law'', released in 2006, and ''Ladder Down: Success Strategies from Women who will be Hiring, Reviewing, and Promoting You'', released in 2016. She is also the author of ''You Raised Us - Now Work With Us: Millennials, Career Success, and Building Strong Workplace Teams'' (published by the American Bar Association in March 2014 and in paperback 2016), and ''The Shield of Silence: How Power Perpetuates a Culture of Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace''.
== Early life and education == Rikleen was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, and graduated from Winthrop High School. She attended Clark University and is a graduate of Brandeis University, from which she graduated magna cum laude in 1975. She earned a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School in 1979.<ref name="Rikleen Nominated to American Bar"/>
== Career == Her law career began in 1979 as the assistant director of the Franklin N. Flaschner Judicial Institute, a Massachusetts non-profit engaged in judicial education. In 1981, she joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1, as an attorney. In 1984, she was hired by the non-profit Clean Sites, Inc. She became an assistant attorney general in early 1987 in the Massachusetts Office of Attorney General, first in its Government Bureau and later in its Environmental Protection Division. In 1988, she joined the Massachusetts-based law firm Bowditch & Dewey, where she founded its environmental law practice and later directed<ref name="Rikleen Nominated to American Bar"/> the Bowditch Institute for Women's Success.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/12/25/ST2008122500667.html|title=Lauren Stiller Rikleen - Michelle Obama's Toughest Job - washingtonpost.com|newspaper=The Washington Post |publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/fashion/24WORK.html?pagewanted=print |title=Who's Cuddly Now? Law Firms - NYTimes.com |newspaper=New York Times |date=2008-01-24 |accessdate=2014-11-19}}</ref> She established the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership in 2011. She is also a former president of the Boston Bar Association and a former member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/print-edition/2012/05/04/law-firms-getting-more-flexible-on.html?page=all|title=Law firms getting more flexible on lifestyle issues|date=4 May 2012|work=Triangle Business Journal}}</ref>
The president and founder of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/money/business/2014/05/14/law-firm-elects-managing-partner/9069015/|title=Law firm elects managing partner|date=14 May 2014|newspaper=Greenville News}}</ref> Rikleen formerly served as an executive-in-residence at the Boston College<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/living/millennials-feminism/ |title=Where are all the millennial feminists? |publisher=CNN |date=2012-11-09 |accessdate=2014-11-19}}</ref> Center for Work & Family in the Carroll School of Management.
An opinion piece by Rikleen in ''The Boston Globe'' was noted as one of several national commentaries on the 2012 Harvard cheating scandal. In it, Rikleen suggested the event could have been the result of the Millennial Generation's inexperience with navigating ambiguity.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/09/14/cheating-and-millennial-generation/imgghIcKXbdBAGuFKmZQaN/story.html |title=Cheating and the Millennial generation - Boston.com |publisher=Bostonglobe.com |date=2012-09-14 |accessdate=2012-09-21}}</ref> When U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf wrote in a blog that women attorneys should tone down their dress in court, Rikleen told the Associated Press his statements perpetuated a double standard.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/federal-judge-says-women-attorneys-should-tone-down-dress-in-court/|title=Federal judge says women attorneys should tone down dress in court|work=Fox News}}</ref>
=== Books === Rikleen's first book, ''Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law'', published in March 2006 by Thomson Reuters Legalworks, focuses on the institutional challenges and roadblocks women face in their efforts to succeed at law firms.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/business/yourmoney/19law.html?pagewanted=all |title=Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms? - NYTimes.com |newspaper=New York Times |date=2006-03-19 |accessdate=2014-11-19}}</ref> ''Ladder Down: Success Strategies from Women who will be Hiring, Reviewing, and Promoting You'' provides career advice to lawyers from successful women lawyers around the world. ''Fortune.com'', in an August 2014 interview with Rikleen, wrote that Rikleen's third book, ''You Raised Us - Now Work With Us: Millennials, Career Success, and Building Strong Workplace Teams'', turned her attention to young people in the workplace by examining the role of younger generations in the workplace and the challenges they face.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2014/08/20/how-corporate-america-should-adapt-to-millennials/|title=How corporate America should adapt to millennials - Fortune|work=Fortune}}</ref> CBS Boston's "NightSide with Dan Rea," in a radio interview and on his Web site, said that while some claim "this is the most spoiled generation our country has ever seen," Rikleen in her book wrote that it was an unfair stereotype.<ref name="CBS">{{cite web|url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/04/08/nightside-lauren-rikleen-author-of-you-raised-us-now-work-with-us/|title=NightSide – Lauren Rikleen, Author Of "You Raised Us, Now Work With Us" « CBS Boston|date=8 April 2014 |publisher=}}</ref> In March 2016, Ankerwycke Publishing released ''Millennials'' in paperback.<ref>Ankerwycke Publishing</ref>
''The Boston Herald'' wrote that as part of Rikleen's research for the book, she "surveyed more than 1,000 people born from 1978 to 2000 for their opinions on entitlement, loyalty, commitment, family relationships, communication, technology and how they view success." ''Fortune''.com (which ''TIME'' magazine picked up in September 2014), citing the survey, wrote that it "suggests that young workers are looking to big businesses to address the world’s problems."<ref name="CBS"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://time.com/3404524/millennials-big-business/|title=Millennials Have Big Faith in Big Business, Study Says|author=Fortune|work=Time|date=19 September 2014 }}</ref> A piece on KGOradio.com about the book centered on stereotypes that baby boomers and millennials face at work, and how to help a mixed-generation team succeed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Lauren+Stiller+Rikleen%3A+Millennials+Aren%27t+So+Bad+After+All&id=76244&is_corp=0|title=KGO 810 - Lauren Stiller Rikleen: Millennials Aren't So Bad After All|publisher=}}</ref> AARP quoted Rikleen in its review as saying, "If boomers want to coexist with twentysomethings, then they — the older generation — need an attitude adjustment."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.aarp.org/2014/04/28/how-to-survive-a-workplace-culture-clash-with-millennials/|title=How to Survive a Workplace with Millennials|work=AARP|date=28 April 2014 }}</ref>
A review of ''The Shield of Silence in Associations Now'', the publication of ASAE (the American Society of Association Executives) described the book as “the most compelling—and alarming—book on workplace misconduct across America in 2019.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://associationsnow.com/2019/10/books-raising-the-shield-of-silence/|title=Books: Raising the Alarm|first=Kristin Clarke|last=CAE|date=October 15, 2019|website=Associations Now}}</ref>
== Awards == *2017 – American Bar Association Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award *2016 – Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Top Women of Law - Circle of Excellence Award *2015 – Named as one of 50 Influencers in Aging by PBS's ''Next Avenue''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/28/idUSnCCN9Xh7nb+1d0+MKW20151028|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122162452/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/28/idUSnCCN9Xh7nb+1d0+MKW20151028|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-11-22|title=PBS's Next Avenue Reveals 2015 Influencers in Aging Honoring 50 Thought Leaders Who Are Redefining Aging|author=|date=|work=Reuters}}</ref> *2010 - Leading Woman Award Honoree, Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.girlscoutseasternmass.org/donate/LW-List.html|title=Leading Women Honorees - Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts|work=girlscoutseasternmass.org|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114215248/http://www.girlscoutseasternmass.org/donate/LW-List.html|archivedate=2015-11-14}}</ref> *2007 - Barbara Gray Humanitarian Award from Voices Against Violence<ref name="Rikleen Nominated to American Bar">{{cite web|title=Massachusetts Lawyer Lauren Stiller Rikleen Nominated to American Bar Association Board of Governors|url=http://apps.americanbar.org/abanet/media/release/news_release.cfm?releaseid=276|publisher=American Bar Association|accessdate=2014-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403041619/http://apps.americanbar.org/abanet/media/release/news_release.cfm?releaseid=276|archive-date=2015-04-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> *2005 - Lelia J. Robinson Award from the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts<ref name="Rikleen Nominated to American Bar"/> *2004 - Boston College Law School Alumni Award for Excellence in Law<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v13/s23/alumni.html|title=The Boston College Chronicle|work=bc.edu}}</ref> *2001 - Athena Award for Professional Excellence<ref name="Rikleen Nominated to American Bar"/>
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== External links == * [http://rikleeninstitute.com/ RikleenInstitute.com] * [http://rikleeninstitute.com/publications/articles Rikleen Institute articles] * [http://www.bc.edu/research/agingandwork/about/bios/rikleen.html Lauren Rikleen's biography, Boston College site]
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