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Our recent WIN CLE webinar, How GCs and CCOs can simplify year-end demands, brought productivity expert Ann Gomez together with DLA Piper partners to provide practical, actionable strategies for navigating competing end of the year pressures.

Panelists explored methods to stay focused and effective during year-end close, including:

• Advanced prioritization techniques to clarify true business-critical work
• Streamlining workflows to create bandwidth for urgent last‑minute requests
• Simplifying processes to amplify both professional results and personal wellbeing

The session highlighted common year-end obstacles, such as overcommitment, multitasking, perfectionism, and volume overload, and offered tools to reduce complexity, protect time, and begin 2026 with renewed clarity and capacity.

Ann Gomez

A USA Today bestselling author and globally recognized expert in productivity, collaboration, and wellbeing, Ann Gomez has spent more than two decades helping professionals reclaim their time and achieve meaningful, high‑impact work. She is the founding president of Clear Concept Inc., delivering research‑based, practical strategies for focus, energy management, and high‑performance teaming.

Ann’s latest book, Workday Warrior, received an honorable mention for The Globe & Mail’s best management books. She is also the author of The Email Warrior and a contributing author to The Younger Self Letters.

Ann has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Globe & Mail, CBC Radio, and on national television. She is a winner of the Women Business Enterprises (WBE) Canada Leader Award and a nominee for RBC’s Women of Influence Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards.

Prior to founding Clear Concept Inc., Ann was a Management Consultant with Kearney and has an MBA from Queen’s University, where she was the President of the MBA class. She also has an Honors Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Biology and Psychology) from McMaster University.

Amy Carbins

Amy Carbins is a DLA Piper partner and Chair of the firm’s Washington, DC Real Estate Practice. She structures, negotiates, and executes complex commercial transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions and financing. Amy is known for finding practical solutions for her clients' complex problems while providing careful analysis and emphasis on risk mitigation tailored to her clients' investment strategies. She knows how to deliver successful results in real estate transactions and development projects, including complex workout and restructuring matters.

Amy's experience includes transactions involving data centers, multi-family, industrial, research & development (R&D) facilities, medical office, independent and assisted living senior communities, mixed-use projects, shopping centers, hotels and resorts, and office buildings. She also advises clients on leasing and asset management matters, including working with landlords and tenants on headquarters leases, single-tenant buildings, new construction leasing and representation of landlords owning large, multi-state portfolios.

John Gibson

John Gibson is a DLA Piper partner out of the Los Angeles office and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. A highly successful trial lawyer and litigator, John represents some of the world’s top companies, professional sports teams, and celebrities, as well as a variety of pro bono clients. John has led clients to company-saving trial victories and resolutions, including affirmative litigation jury verdicts, in multiple industries. His cases involve contracts, AI, technology, and competition, and include business and consumer class actions and multi-district litigation. John has also figured prominently in litigation over new technology platforms and ecosystems and is chair of the United Nations' AI for Good law track. He co-chairs DLA Piper's Chambers-ranked "Band 1" Business & Commercial Litigation practice.

His success as a leader and trial lawyer, his multifaceted legal experience at the intersection of law and technology, and his commitment to justice make John an invaluable asset and distinguished authority sought after in high-stakes trial and litigation engagements.