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Our consultants are esteemed former General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officers, and current board members, with decades of experience advising executives and boards of some of the country’s most influential and respected corporations. This unique perspective allows them to offer unparalleled guidance and best practices, empowering you to reach new heights and advance organizational success when you hire an executive coach.

Solutions to Grow Individual & Team Performance

What sets our advising services apart is simple: our consultants have sat in the seat. They understand first-hand the challenges and issues you and your team face on both a daily and long-term basis and provide a broad range of insights and tried-and-true solutions.

Executive Coaching for Lawyers

Enhance leadership skills, effectiveness, and strategic advisory skills

Trusted Advisor

Gain practical advice to support effective decision making and professional advancement

Accelerator Coaching

Empowers new leaders to integrate into their role successfully and accelerates results for the company

General Counsel Succession Services

Guidance to create the plan, develop aspiring successors, recruit and benchmark talent, and facilitate a smooth transition

Legal & Compliance Department Consulting

Enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and success of the legal and compliance function

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Results-Driven Success Supported by Industry Leaders

Professionals who work with our distinguished former General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officers notice a significant increase in their abilities:

Overall Increase in Skills

Increase in Executive Presence

Increase in Leadership Skills

Increase in Productivity and Time Management

Increase in Organizational Structure Skills

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BarkerGilmore Welcomes Marnie Seif as Strategic Advisor and Executive Coach
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Former Fortune 500 Chief People Officer and Chief Legal Officer Brings Deep Executive Leadership Experience to Advise Senior Legal and Compliance Leaders BarkerGilmore today announced that Marnie Seif has [...]
The GC-Board Alignment Gap: What Boards and General Counsel Say—and What Actually Happens
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As boards and executive teams place greater emphasis on governance, transparency, and informed decision-making, the role of the General Counsel is expanding beyond legal advisory into a more strategic, [...]
Why Coaching Has Become Essential for Today’s General Counsel
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Contributors: Mary Ann Hynes | Marla Persky | Audrey Rubin Today’s most effective and influential General Counsel have keen business understanding/insights, legal expertise/experience, recognized leadership skills, and gravitas. This [...]
Only a Fool Believes They Don’t Need a Coach
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Even the most accomplished legal leaders can miss out on critical opportunities, not because they lack experience, but because they lack the right strategic support at the right moment. [...]
Leadership Profiles: David Yawman
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Leadership Profiles Insights from Legal & Compliance Thought Leaders Featuring David Yawman Former EVP, GC & Corporate Secretary PepsiCo, Inc. BarkerGilmore Strategic Advisor and Leadership Development [...]
The General Counsel in an AI World: From Advisor to Orchestrator
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As artificial intelligence moved from experimentation to significant enterprise investment in 2025, boards and executive teams became increasingly focused on governance, oversight, and results. In this environment, the role [...]
Investing in General Counsel: The ROI of Coaching and Advising
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The role of the General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer has never been more complex or more consequential. Today’s legal leaders are expected to be strategic business partners, enterprise risk [...]
AI and the GC: Questions You May Be Afraid to Ask, But Should
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General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers are under increasing pressure to understand, and even lead, conversations about artificial intelligence. But how should GCs really be thinking about AI? Is [...]
Recognition Highlights Leadership in Legal Executive Search and In-House Legal Recruiting
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BarkerGilmore, a retained executive search firm dedicated exclusively to in-house legal and compliance leadership, has been named to Hunt Scanlon’s Legal Recruiting Power 100, a distinction recognizing the most influential [...]
The General Counsel in the Age of Disruption
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As AI and digital transformation reshape the legal profession, General Counsel and senior legal leaders face a pivotal question: how should the role evolve and what will distinguish those [...]

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Executive Search Is Built on Human Connection
Jul 22, 2026|Categories: Hiring & Recruiting, Legal Leadership|
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly prevalent in recruiting. New tools promise to identify candidates faster, automate outreach, screen resumes, and simplify hiring workflows. While technology may create efficiencies in certain [...]
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BarkerGilmore Welcomes Marnie Seif as Strategic Advisor and Executive Coach
Jul 21, 2026|Categories: Hiring & Recruiting, Legal Advising|
Former Fortune 500 Chief People Officer and Chief Legal Officer Brings Deep Executive Leadership Experience to Advise Senior Legal and Compliance Leaders BarkerGilmore today announced that Marnie Seif has [...]
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A BarkerGilmore 20th Anniversary Executive Profile: April Oliver
Jul 14, 2026|Categories: Compliance & Risk, Hiring & Recruiting, Interviews|
April Oliver, Vice President of Ethics & Compliance at Micron, exemplifies trusted compliance leadership. Placed by BarkerGilmore in 2022, she scaled Salesforce’s compliance team from one to forty-five professionals and built a best-in-class global function at Micron through composure, cultural fluency, and strategic partnership.
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Meet Senior Director Jesus Meraz
Jul 8, 2026|Categories: Hiring & Recruiting, Interviews|
After building a distinguished career in talent acquisition and executive recruiting, Jesus Meraz has joined BarkerGilmore as Senior Director, bringing a unique combination of leadership experience, legal training, and [...]
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Your team is your biggest asset

BarkerGilmore delivers a higher level of service, more qualified diverse candidates, better value, and a longer stick rate than other generalist executive search firms used in the past.

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"Working with the strategic advisor and coach was a great investment and exactly what I needed."

EVP, GENERAL COUNSEL & CORPORATE SECRETARY

“Issues with the CEO and board can take incredible finesse and it’s been extremely valuable having a trusted advisor to strategize with.”

SVP, GENERAL COUNSEL AND CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER

“I’m a better leader, increased my effectiveness, and am more strategic from a business perspective.”

VICE PRESIDENT AND ASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSEL

“As the General Counsel, you’re alone. Working with the advisor gave me incredible confidence.”

SVP, GENERAL COUNSEL

“Of the many coaching efforts I have seen – you’ve had one of the greatest impacts in assisting our General Counsel. Many people cannot change years of practice.”

CEO, FORTUNE 1000 TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

“BarkerGilmore’s advisor had extensive experience with C-suite executives and boards. They were an excellent sounding board for issues that arose and came up with great suggestions for getting around a variety of problems, whether legal, compliance, or personality-related. They understood that these issues take finesse and helped me strategize to resolve them.”

VP, GENERAL COUNSEL & CORPORATE SECRETARY

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Solutions to Grow Individual & Team Performance

Executive Coaching for Lawyers

Trusted Advisor

Accelerator Coaching

General Counsel Succession Services

Legal & Compliance Department Consulting

Connect with BarkerGilmore’s Legal & Compliance Advisory Experts

Results-Driven Success Supported by Industry Leaders

Leadership Development Resources

Your team is your biggest asset

Find an Executive Coach for Legal & Compliance Leadership

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Executive Coaching for Lawyers

Trusted Advisor

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