Thank you for visiting GenXpertise. 

Marianne Talbot, the founder of GenXpertise and our Chief Community Architect, is a lawyer, entrepreneur, business development expert, executive coach, writer, speaker, diversity strategist, and former law professor. 

The concept for GenXpertise originated around her dining room table in Manhattan several years ago, during a period where Marianne hosted luncheons for friends who were transitioning into new careers, or who had suffered unexpected job losses. During these meals they would discuss career goals, job hunting skills, stress management, finances, and family, and it became clear to Marianne that GenXers - with our unique backgrounds, career experiences, and cultural touchpoints - could benefit from programs curated just for us.  

Marianne founded GenXpertise to be of service to all GenXers. She has coached, trained, and taught hundreds of professionals throughout her career, and the GenXpertise platform continues this passion by being explicitly designed to provide us with the resources we need to stay successful - all right at our fingertips. 

Marianne is also creating this platform to enable GenXers to help other GenXers through the myriad of programs we will be offering. GenXpertise is about showcasing GenXers and creating opportunity for all of us, so we can help each other. 

If you are interested in contributing to our mission, please email us!

More about Marianne

Marianne brings a uniquely creative eye and broad experience, as well as a deep love for 80s culture, to GenXpertise. 

As a trial attorney, Marianne handled complex civil litigation and civil rights matters in New York, Washington D.C., and Virginia, 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 also was an adjunct law professor at the American University, Washington College of Law and the George Washington University Law School.  In addition to practicing complex commercial litigation with Mr. Hirschkop for over a decade, Marianne was a litigator with two boutique firms in New York City. Marianne has written and spoken widely on many business and legal topics, and has delivered numerous CLE programs on numerous topics, including business development and attorney advertising ethics. 

After retiring from the practice of law, Marianne founded her own company, coaching high-achieving professionals in New York City and designing business development plans for her clients and the businesses they ran.  She has conducted and facilitated workshops and programs for hundreds of professionals in the areas of personal and professional development.

Marianne is currently the Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at Bailey & Glasser, LLP, a national law firm with 18 offices across the United States. Marianne has extensive nonprofit experience, including as the interim executive director of a child welfare nonprofit in East Harlem, NYC. She also recently studied with the Coach Diversity Institute at the Howard University School of Business in its Executive Certification in Diversity Coaching program.

Marianne is  admitted to the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States, Virginia, New York, and Washington, D.C. She currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and daughter. Her favorite quote (from Jim Rohn) appears behind her office desk which says:  "In order to have more you must become more." 

Legal Marketing Association Mid-Regional Conference (October 2023)

Pipeline Plus CMO Roundtable (August 2023)

Passle's CMO Series Podcast

The Pivot Syndicate Podcast with Stephanie Maher, "The Gala of Your Life"

Kimberly Wilson's Tranquility du Jour podcast

Good2BSocial Legal Marketing 2.0 podcast

The American University Washington College of Law Alumni Webinar: "Balance by Design: How to Design a Successful Legal Career and a Happy Life"

Legal Marketing Association Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, November 2019: "The Entrepreneurial Attorney: Developing a Marketing Mindset in Business Development Coaching" with Jim Stapleton, CMBDO of Blank Rome LLP

Faculty, online video-on-demand CLE course, Cognistar/Smartpros: “Easy and Elegant Business Development Basics for Lawyers: Tools, Techniques and an Overview of Attorney Advertising Ethics,” 2011 to 2016. Was available for credit in numerous jurisdictions.