Francesco R. Barbera is a corporate attorney and executive coach. His professional coaching programs are focused on helping lawyers and other professionals work through critical career challenges, including:

• Mid-career transitions
• Working through burn-out and deep career crisis
• Discovering calling and purpose in career
• Business development and client relationships

A lifelong student of psychology and personal development, Francesco has received extensive training in a full range of techniques for overcoming mental, emotional and unconscious blocks to effective leadership and personal transformation, including rational-emotive, cognitive-behavioral, reality-based and gestalt-based tools and strategies. He has coached and trained with several top executive and career coaches in the field, and is a member of Genius Stone Partners, a network of executives and leadership development professionals dedicated to helping individuals and organizations achieve optimal performance.

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Francesco’s legal practice involves counseling businesses and investors in mergers, acquisitions and other dispositions of businesses and assets; raising capital; board and corporate governance; and the full range of day-to-day business operations. Francesco has represented clients in wide array of industries, including the National Broadcasting Corporation, the Grammy Museum, Ares Capital Management, Credit Suisse First Boston, as well as privately held businesses in media and technology, consumer products, professional sports, film and television production, among others. He began his legal career at two large, international law firms in Los Angeles, California.

Francesco also represents non-profit corporations and has served as General Counsel of the Los Angeles Leadership Academy, a charter school dedicated to training the next generation of social and political leaders. He is the founder and former Executive Director of SpiritWalk, a non-profit fundraiser created to benefit the University of Santa Monica.

Francesco’s writing has appeared in many publications, including The American Lawyer, California Lawyer, Slate, and others. He served as the Supreme Court columnist and Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Record and was the founder and editor-in-chief of the first Ivy League journal in the country dedicated to the publication of undergraduate historical research.

Francesco earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, his M.A. in Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.