Marianne Merritt Talbot is a business development and marketing expert, entrepreneur, author, executive coach, and former trial attorney and law professor. As Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at the national law firm Bailey & Glasser, LLP (www.BaileyGlasser.com), Marianne designs and deploys marketing and BD initiatives across its many offices as well as runs its lawyer coaching program. Marianne is also the founder of Lawyer BFF (lawyerbff.com), a video-on-demand success platform for lawyers, and GenXpertise (GenXpertise.com), a career, leadership, and community platform for GenXers.