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About Marianne Talbot
Marianne is our founder and Chief Community Architect. From latchkey kid to lawyer, Marianne in a nutshell:
- Lawyer (30+ years)
- Executive, career, and life coach (20+ years)
- Entrepreneur (16+ years)
- Business & marketing expert (16+ years)
- Mom (12+ years)
- Author & speaker (including the book Balance by Design: A Career Guide & Planner for Women Lawyers with a Life)
- Former law school professor
- Career transition and reinvention expert
Marianne has written and spoken widely on many subjects and has trained thousands of people in the areas of personal and professional development, law, and more.
More About Marianne
Growing up in NYC as a latchkey kid, Marianne absorbed the diverse and creative environments all around her. From fashion to music (a violinist who even had an extra part in Harry Belafonte's hip hop movie 'Beat Street") to being a club kid during the Danceteria days, her eyes were always open to the possibilities and inspiration around her.
Marianne's love of diversity and activist streak led her to become a women's studies major and instructor in college, and then to law school where she clerked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Voting Rights Project, and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division where she worked on the Rodney King civil rights case.
Becoming a trial attorney, Marianne handled complex civil and civil rights matters, in majority part as the protégé of Philip J. Hirschkop (one of the legendary lawyers who won the landmark case of Loving v. Virginia before the Supreme Court of the United States). She was also an adjunct law professor at the American University, Washington College of Law, and the George Washington University Law School.
After retiring from practicing law, Marianne founded her own company coaching high-achieving professionals, with clients including lawyers, tech leaders, award-winning actresses, fashion designers, artists and creatives, and finance gurus.
Marianne is now the Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at the national law firm Bailey & Glasser, LLP. In her role as CMBDO, she designs and delivers all the pieces of the firm's marketing and business development initiatives, and coaches many of the talented lawyers across its 18 offices.
Marianne has extensive nonprofit experience, including as the interim executive director of a child welfare nonprofit in East Harlem. She also founded a national animal law nonprofit, and has served on the board of numerous charitable organizations.
An insatiable learner, in 2020 she studied with the Coach Diversity Institute at the Howard University School of Business. Marianne has studied at places as diverse as the New School (acting!), Marie Forleo's B School, Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts, the Association of Pet Bereavement and Loss, the Belong Center, and Landmark Education.
Marianne is admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, Virginia, New York, and Washington, D.C. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and daughter.
Please connect with Marianne on LinkedIn.
More About GenXpertise
The table was set for the creation of GenXpertise around Marianne’s kitchen table in NYC, when she hosted a series of luncheons for friends in 2015 who were changing careers or experiencing unexpected job losses. Over homecooked meals and glasses of wine, they'd brainstorm resume revisions, polish interviewing skills, process emotions that came along with un-fun employment challenges, and find time to laugh. It was an environment where everyone left inspired, elevated, and empowered.
Marianne thought to herself: "how can this concept be scaled to support even more of us?"
And now we can, with technology that can easily & meaningfully connect our community.
With the launch of GenXpertise, Marianne is now putting all her skills, honed over decades, to work on behalf of her generation.
Armed with her uniquely creative eye, over 30 years of combined experience as a lawyer, coach, leader, and entrepreneur, and a deep love for her GenX peers and culture, Marianne is creating a place where we can rise and thrive, together.
Welcome to GenXpertise.
We're so glad you're here.
A Note to Our Community
One of my favorite sayings is: SUCCESS IS A TEAM SPORT.
Thank you for supporting us as we build this platform. The more people we bring together here, the more we can grow and build what we need as a group. By GenXers, for GenXers.
So let's do this together!
We're here to listen to you and to curate content directed at handling your specific goals and needs, so please send us a message if you have anything specific you'd like to see, hear, or experience!
With love and gratitude -
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR
Marianne's Career Guide for Women Lawyers
Add more balance and success in all areas of your life with "Balance by Design® : A Career Guide & Planner for Women Lawyers with a Life"
Part planner and part playbook, the system and strategies contained in this 200+ page book were designed by Marianne Talbot, GenXpertise’s founder, who is an attorney, business development expert, and life coach who knows the struggle to find balance is real.
You should not have to sacrifice the important elements of your personal life to have a thriving legal career. Start using this planner any time of the year to organize, inspire, and support you.
CHIEF MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, BLANK ROME LLP
our promise
We are committed to continuing to do the necessary work to uncover the unconscious biases we all have and are always seeking new ways to do better.
No matter your age, race, ethnicity, gender expression, parental status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, education level, ability, class, size, or background … you matter and are welcome here.
Thank you for being with us on our journey together as GenXers.
