Amii Barnard-Bahn

Your Launch Pad: Influence and Visibility: A Playbook for In‑house Counsel

In-house counsel often do their best work behind the scenes — but career growth depends on influence and visibility. ACC Career Coach Amii Barnard-Bahn shares a practical playbook to help lawyers become trusted advisors and strategic partners.

Enhancing Leadership through the Art of Receiving — and Delivering — Feedback

Here are 10 key strategies for receiving feedback and 10 principles for delivering feedback to help foster a feedback-friendly environment in your workplace.

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Why In-house Counsel Need Executive Presence

In this piece, executive coach Amii Barnard-Bahn shares her C-suite experience and speaks with several in-house colleagues about using executive presence to get ahead. #ACCDocket #executivepresence

What Every Corporate Counsel Needs to Know About Project Management

Many times, it isn’t enough to know the law and your industry well — in-house counsel should be skilled in project management. To help you manage your workload, executive coach Amii Barnard-Bahn interviews global project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez about his best practices. #inhousecounsel #generalcounsel #projectmanagement

Financial Services

Top Strategies for Leading in a Hybrid Environment at Bank of the West

In this interview, Karen Sullivan, VP, senior counsel, human resources with Bank of the West, discusses how to cope with Zoom fatigue and what to expect when returning to the office.

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Employment and Labor

Health Law

Uber Health Legal Director’s Top Tips for Leading in a Hybrid Work Environment

In this interview, Uber Health Legal Director of Product Lamis Hossain discusses leading during the pandemic, return to work, and top tips for success.

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Genome Medical GC’s Top Strategies for Leading in a Hybrid Environment

As hope and vaccine distribution grow, questions about the pandemic’s impact on teams, leadership, and the transition to a hybrid work environment abound. In this series of articles, top in-house leaders share their views of leading during the pandemic, return to work, and top tips for success.

Compliance and Ethics

5 Ways In-house Counsel Can Influence the Right Tone at the Top

The stewardship, clear thinking, and insight that the general counsel brings to the CEO has never been more critical. We need to react quickly — without reacting thoughtlessly. Below are five things you can do right now to equip you in fulfilling your trusted advisor role, on good days and bad.