Amii Barnard-Bahn

Amii Barnard-Bahn is a passionate culture builder with over 20 years of experience helping executives and teams to achieve transformational leadership and sustainable business results. Amii partners with organizations to develop high performing leaders and teams, and coaches executives who are dedicated to improving their organizational impact.

Amii’s expertise is built upon her corporate background as a Senior Executive and Board Advisor with more than 20 years of success across the healthcare, financial services, and entertainment industries. Amii recently served as SVP HR for River City Bank, California's premier business bank with assets of $2 billion. Prior to River City Bank, as Chief Administrative Officer for the California Dental Association, she created the infrastructure to drive operational agility and led a reorganization resulting in an upgrade of IT and HR functions for the $100 million non-profit association. She previously spent five years as Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer with McKesson, where she designed and executed compliance strategy for the $137 billion Fortune 5 company’s most profitable business unit with $90 billion in revenues and 6,500 employees in 40 international locations. Here she led implementation of a five-year strategic plan that reduced risk, improved operational efficiency, and increased employee engagement. Prior to this, she worked for eleven years with Fireman’s Fund (a subsidiary of Allianz) where she managed a $2 million budget and directed HR and employment law strategy. She brings this wealth of “in the trenches” experience in service to organizations, understanding the challenges today’s leaders face on a daily basis.

Amii holds a BA in English from Tufts University, and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center. She has served on multiple non-profit boards, including currently as a Leadership Committee Member with 2020 Women on Boards. She has taught Corporate Compliance & Ethics at Golden Gate University School of Law and is a frequent speaker on topics including leadership development, employee engagement, and ethical culture.

I'm an executive coach and strategic advisor who has worked with clients including First Republic Bank, Adobe and The Gap. I am a leadership columnist at Compliance Week and a featured expert on the Compliance Podcast Network, covering CEO, board and governance best practices. I’m also a Fellow at the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital - Harvard Medical School.

I enable organizations to outperform and out behave the competition.

An experienced executive who has shaped company culture and strategic initiatives at Fortune 20 companies and nonprofits such as McKesson, Allianz and the California Dental Association, I have led multiple functions, including Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, IT, and Communications.

A lifelong diversity advocate, I testified in multiple legislative committees on the successful passage of California's SB826, the first law in the U.S. requiring corporate boards to include women.

Specialties:

* Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

* Corporate Governance and Board Advising

* Human Resources

* Strategic Planning & Change Management

* Compliance & Ethics