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LEV Continuing Education redefines professional learning. We’re not here to help you simply “tick a box”, we’re here to help you strengthen.

About LEV

LEV Continuing Education redefines how you learn and lead. We’re not here to help you simply “tick a box”; we’re here to help you strengthen your expertise, sharpen your foresight, and lead with greater purpose.

Our programs support you with practical, ethical, and transformative learning drawn from law, governance, and human resources—so you can navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.

Jill Mayer

Founder & Lead Educator, LEV Continuing Education

Jill Mayer is a lawyer, educator, and professional development strategist with more than two decades of experience designing award-winning programs for legal, governance, human resources, and executive professionals. She is a trusted voice in continuing education, governance, and ethical leadership — bridging rigor and purpose in every offering.

Professional Journey & Contributions

Jill’s career has been devoted to elevating how professionals learn, think, and respond to complexity. Her work across both the for-profit and non-profit sectors ensures that LEV participants benefit from programs that are strategic, practical, and grounded in real experience.

With more than twenty years designing high-impact professional development, Jill has a proven ability to distill complex legal, governance, and social issues into clear, actionable learning.
She has directed extensive CPD portfolios, guided multidisciplinary teams, and built nationally recognized programs that integrate adult-learning principles with ethics, judgment, and real-world application.
Her experience spans thousands of programs across law, governance, ethics, risk, inclusion, professional skills, and organizational resilience—giving participants confidence that LEV content reflects broad and deeply informed expertise.
Having held senior roles in both commercially driven and mission-based environments, Jill brings a rare combination of market insight, operational strength, and values-based decision-making—ensuring LEV programs are relevant, principled, and thoughtfully designed.
As a consultant and educator, she continues to help organizations refine their learning strategies, strengthen ethical reasoning, and build the capacity needed to navigate today’s demanding professional environment.

For LEV participants, this means every program is crafted by someone who has spent her career improving professional competence, sharpening critical thinking, and supporting people in making sound, purpose-driven decisions.

Thought Leadership & Special Initiatives

Jill’s thought leadership is rooted in helping professionals develop clearer judgment, ethical awareness, and the ability to navigate sensitive and fast-moving issues with confidence. Her broader work ensures that LEV programs are informed by current realities, rigorous thinking, and meaningful community impact.

- Through her national network of legal professionals, Jill develops coordinated educational responses to contemporary social and legal challenges, giving LEV participants access to insight shaped by real-time developments in the field.
- She designs advanced CPD/CLE frameworks on issues such as online extremism, discrimination, trauma-informed practice, and professional responsibility—ensuring that complex topics are taught with nuance, clarity, and practical relevance.
- Jill has led major international education initiatives, guiding curriculum, digital engagement, and multi-sector collaboration—experience that translates into LEV programs that are thoughtfully structured, accessible, and grounded in evidence.
- Her work building professional communities and facilitating dialogue across sectors brings a wide lens to LEV’s content, helping participants understand not only the “what,” but the broader context shaping today’s professional expectations.
- Jill continues to contribute to ethics-focused education, organizational culture initiatives, and public-interest programming, ensuring LEV’s offerings reflect emerging risks, societal pressures, and the evolving responsibilities of modern professionals.

For LEV participants, this means every course is shaped by someone deeply engaged in the issues shaping today’s workplaces—offering insight that is informed, balanced, and genuinely useful in real-world decision-making.

Jill’s areas of expertise include:

Accredited Professional Education (CLE/CPD design, delivery, accreditation)
Governance & Risk Education (board development, director training, oversight frameworks)
Ethics, Inclusion & Public Responsibility (anti-discrimination, diversity, justice)
Leadership & Wellbeing in High-Pressure Environments
Custom Learning Strategy & Curriculum Design

Her approach is characterized by:

Values-driven pedagogy — marrying competence with conscience
Cross-disciplinary integration — bringing together legal, governance, and human resources
Practical + reflective formats — blending cases, tools, conversation, and introspection
Learner-centric design — accessible delivery (live-online + on-demand) to meet busy professionals

Recognition & Impact

Jill’s program design has earned international awards in continuing education, including recognition from ACLEA (Association for Continuing Legal Education) and CSAE (Canadian Society of Association Executives) for excellence in programming and educational innovation.

Her contributions to Holocaust education, anti-hate, and community engagement further reflect her commitment to both professional and social impact. jaffainstitute.ca+1

Personal & Values Context

Jill is licensed to practice law in Tennessee, U.S.

She has leveraged her professional skills in volunteer roles, including conference production for virtual Holocaust remembrance, and educational roles in Jewish/Israeli community contexts.

Jill brings her personal conviction to creating learning spaces that confront difficult topics (polarization, systemic bias, identity, discrimination) with empathy and rigor.

Vision & Values

To redefine professional learning as a tool for clarity, competence, and conscience, empowering professionals to lead with both expertise and humanity.

Integrity

Grounded in ethics and accountability.

Courage

Tackling sensitive, often avoided issues.

Clarity

Equipping learners to navigate complexity.

Connection

Building networks of trust and collaboration.

Impact

Creating learning that strengthens society.