IT’S CEO VERSUS CFO AND YOU ARE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE.

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO? YOU ARE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A COMMUNITY HOSPITAL EXPERIENCING A CYBERSECURITY CRISIS. THE CEO RECOMMENDS PAYING THE RANSOM AND NOT GOING PUBLIC ABOUT THE ATTACK.

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO? YOU ARE ON THE BOARD OF A COMPANY ON THE VERGE OF GREATNESS…..OR BANKRUPTCY.

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO? AS CHAIR OF THE BOARD, YOU GAVE YOUR WORK TO THE CEO THAT YOU WOULD KEEP HIS SECRET. DON’T YOU HAVE A FIDUCIARY/MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO TELL THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS?

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO? "THE CFO AND THE CHAIR OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE DISAGREE. YOU ARE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE."

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THE BULLARD COMPANY BOARD OF DIRECTORS SUFFERS FROM "TOO MANY COOKS IN THE KITCHEN AND YOU ARE CHAIR OF THE BOARD."

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO? "YOU ARE THE FIRST "REAL" OUTSIDE DIRECTOR IN A FAMILY-DOMINATED BOARD OF DIRECTORS."

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO? "THE CEO CONFRONTS A ROGUE TRADER AND AN UNCOOPERATIVE BOARD."

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THE FOUNDER AND THE LEAD PE PARTNER ARE NOT ALIGNED. YOU ARE THE EXTERNAL BOARD MEMBER IN THE MIDDLE.

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO? "BIG TEN FARMS HAS A BIG PROBLEM."

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PICK ONE: FIRE THE CEO OR CONTINUE WITH THE IPO?

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO: HOG HAVEN NEEDS TO WEED OUT SOME OF ITS BOARD MEMBERS.

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ON THIS FIVE-PERSON BOARD OF DIRECTORS, IT IS TWO AGAINST TWO. YOU ARE THE DECISIVE VOTE.

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YOU ARE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF A FAMILY DOMINATED COMPANY. AN OUTSIDE BOARD MEMBER IS PROVIDING A PERSPECTIVE YOU HOPED SHE WOULD PROVIDE….AND NOW THAT’S A PROBLEM.

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"BOUNCE ENERGY SYSTEMS CASE." LARRY STYBEL, STYBEL PEABODY ASSOCIATES, INC. AND BOARD OPTIONS, INC.

You Are an External Board Member of a Private Equity Portfolio Company Where the Key PE Partner No Longer Trusts the CEO/Founder. But Firing the CEO at This Stage Would Harm Sales Development, Create Uncertainty Among Customers, and Provoke Resignations Among Critical Technical Professionals.

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"CHAIR OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE FINDS LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY WITH BOARD MEMBERS OF THIS NONPROFIT. WHAT CAN SHE DO ABOUT IT?" CYNTHIA JARBOE.

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A FIRE IN THE COMPANY LAB KILLS SOMEONE. THE CEO SAYS, "I’VE GOT THIS UNDER CONTROL." AS A BOARD MEMBER, YOU HAVE YOUR DOUBTS. THIS IS A CRISIS. WHAT DO YOU DO?

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THE CASE OF THE PARAMOUR IN THE BOARDROOM.

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HOW CAN WE ATTRACT/RETAIN TALENT UNDER ADVERSE CONDITIONS?

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It is 2022-2023. The COVID Pandemic is impacting everyone. But nowhere is the concern greater than assisted living centers. Elderly people are particularly vulnerable to COVID. How can you attract/retain staff to serve this population?

KEEPING THE CEO IS INTOLERABLE. FIRING THE CEO IS INTOLERABLE.

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"OUR SERIES B DID NOT HAPPEN. NOW WHAT??!!" RAZA SHAIKH, LAUNCHPAD VENTURE GROUP.

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"THE CEO WANTS TO PAY CERTAIN VENDORS IN BITCOIN. THE CFO RESPONDS, "OUR PUBLIC COMPANY NEEDS TO AVOID BITCOIN." YOU ARE THE CHAIR OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE AND THE CEO ASKS FOR YOUR OPINION."

Twenty invited Board members attended this Seat at the Table program.

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Now watch the discussion about the case with Yuri Cataldo.

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"THE CEO SEARCH IS DOWN TO TWO FINALISTS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO AS A BOARD MEMBER?"

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Watch a discussion about the Case with 32 invited Board members at boardoptions.com "Seat at the Table".

ABOUT OUR MODERATORS

YOU ARE AN INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR OF A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL FAMILY-OWNED, PROMINENT BUSINESS WITH AN 81-YEAR-OLD FOUNDER/CEO. HE IS TOUGH-MINDED BUT PHYSICALLY FRAIL. STILL SMART AND CREATIVE, HE IS MAKING "ODD" DECISIONS LATELY. THE COO, HIS DAUGHTER, IS WORRIED.

What would YOU Do?

Listen to 15 invited Board members at "Seat at the Table" discuss the case.

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Meet our Moderator.

"THIS FAST-GROWING PUBLIC COMPANY INVITES YOU TO JOIN THE BOARD. YOU SEE THE POTENTIAL. YOU SEE THE DANGER."

What would YOU Do?

Watch 21 invited Board Directors discuss the case at Stybel Peabody’s Seat at the Table Zoom Program.

Case Written and Moderated by Dr. Robert Nadel.

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"THE CHAIR ASKS FOR YOUR RECOMMENDATION: SHOULD OVERVIEW OF CYBERSECURITY RISK BE DONE BY THE AUDIT COMMITTEE?"

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CYNTHIA HUGHES REQUESTS YOUR ADVICE REGARDING HER "GRAY DIRECTOR" PROBLEM.

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CASE: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE BOARD AS AN AGENT OF CORPORATE CULTURE CHANGE? WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE NOMINATING & GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE IN CULTURE CHANGE?

Watch Professor Jodi Detjen lead a discussion about the case with 28 invited Board members at boardoptions.com.

CASE: EVERYONE WANTS TO BE INVOLVED WITH EVERYTHING ON THIS BOARD!

This is a Zoom program for 28 invited Board members around the world hosted by Board Option, Inc. and moderated by Ellen Richstone.

CASE: " YOU ARE CHAIR OF THE BOARD IN A HATFIELD VS MCCOY FAMILY BUSINESS SITUATION."

Watch the Zoom Program of 26 invited Board members discussing the case under the leadership of Josh Chernin.

GEORGE NEBLE PRESENTS A CASE: " THE CFO AND THE CHAIR OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE DISAGREE. AND YOU ARE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE."

Zoom discussion between George Neble and 28 invited leaders.

CASE: "THE FOUNDER BLACKMAILS THE BOARD. NOW WHAT??!!"

Zoom Broadcast of 28 invited Board members discussing the case with Seat at the Table Moderator, Ari Brish.

CASE: "SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO: I’M AN EXTERNAL BOARD MEMBER OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS." DAVID KAROFSKY, THE FAMILY BUSINESS CONSULTING GROUP.

Watch the Zoom Discussion as 30 invited Board members deal with the issues.

CASE: "THE CEO CLAIMS WE ARE AN "INNOVATIVE" COMPANY. HOW DO WE KNOW? HOW SHOULD THE COMPENSATION COMMITTEE MEASURE "INNOVATION?" JERRY SCHAUFELD, WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF BOSTON.

Watch Jerry Schaufeld lead a group of 25 invited Board members as they discuss the case.

CASE: "SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS ARE MADE AGAINST THE FOUNDER/CEO AND YOU ARE ON THE BOARD."

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ABOUT JEFF DRETLER


JEFFREY A. DRETLER is a partner in Rubin and Rudman LLP's labor and employment practice in Boston. He has more than twenty years' experience representing employers in litigation involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblower, and wage-and-hour claims, with a focus on the health care industry.

Mr. Dretler has extensive experience in enforcing noncompetition agreements and protecting trade secrets. He regularly counsels employers and executive level employees on human resources issues, including state and federal leave laws, and drafts and negotiates executive and physician employment contracts. He also performs internal investigations into sexual harassment and other workplace conduct issues.

Mr. Dretler was elected a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and has been recognized as a Massachusetts "Super Lawyer" for employment litigation defense

Mr. Dretler was appointed by Governor Baker to serve on the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Advisory Board. He has been active with the American Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law for more than a decade and served in a variety of leadership positions.

Mr. Dretler is a graduate of Northwestern University and Northeastern University School of Law, currently serving as President of its alumni/ae association board of directors.

He began his career as a law clerk to the Honorable William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and served as an assistant district attorney in Suffolk County prior to entering private practice.

"OUR GOVERNMENT CONTRACT IS UNDER REVIEW AND EVERYBODY IS BLAMING EVERYBODY ELSE EXCEPT THEMSELVES. YOU ARE A DIRECTOR ON THE BOARD." LISA COHEN, CAPITAL MOTION.

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Lisa A. Cohen
CEO and Principal, Capital Motion LLC

Capital Motion, LLC works with executives and boards of charitable nonprofits, mission-driven organizations and investment firms, and other private sector businesses.

Capital Motion's Special Needs Financial Services Institute™ (SNFSI™) recognizes that more than 42 million Americans are affected by disability and that their need for financial products and services exceeds availability. SNFSI provides comprehensive information about Pooled Special Needs Trusts (PSNTs) to PSNT providers and those in adjacent industries.

Lisa is a successful serial entrepreneur, having launched two firms prior to Capital Motion including Momentum Partners, LLC, a leading advisory, research, analytics, and strategy firm active in sustainable investing. Momentum Partners was an early signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.

Lisa has served in executive leadership positions in both the private and nonprofit sectors. Lisa was a Managing Director and Senior Vice President at Evergreen Investments, a Director at John Hancock, and a Director at the Girl Scouts, running lines of business that resulted in significant asset/money raises at each organization. Lisa is a graduate of Smith College and has completed Harvard’s Executive Education program in Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance.

CASE: "THE BOARD HAS TO BALANCE FINANCIAL SURVIVAL AND PATIENT SAFETY IN A COVID-19 ERA." MARYANNE PEABODY, CO-FOUNDER OF BOARDOPTIONS.COM AND STYBEL PEABODY ASSOCIATES, INC.

First Read the Case (1) and Case (2).

Now you ready to watch and listen as Moderator Maryanne Peabody discusses the case with 30 invited Board members from around the world.



Maryanne Peabody

Maryanne Peabody was on the Board of Directors of a company which owns nursing homes. Prior to founding the firm, Maryanne held leadership positions in start-up health care organizations. Some of her accomplishments include the establishment of clinics in rural Texas, quality care programs in long-term care facilities and the framework for a home health care program for the City of Boston.

Her health care management experience includes hospital, ambulatory care, community health, home health and long-term care settings.

Maryanne's consulting work includes working with Boards and leaders at health care facilities and physician practice groups.

Maryanne was on the Board of Directors of the New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors, and a founder of NACD's "Best Practices" seminar. She has served on the Board of a company that builds and manages assisted living facilities for low income elderly.

Maryanne's MBA is from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she was the first recipient of the Hoblitzelle Foundation's Women in Business Scholarship. Maryanne has a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University and advanced training in organization behavior from Columbia University and has received certification as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation.

CASE: "CAN THIS OUTSIDE FAMILY BUSINESS DIRECTOR BE A SUCCESSFUL CHANGE AGENT?"

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CASE WRITER: GERRY SHERMAN


Gerry Sherman is the founder of Pathway Advisors, LLC, a corporate turnaround firm. Its focus is family controlled and owner-driven lower middle-market companies. He has also been on the Board of Directors if four companies in consumer products, financial services, and commercial mortgage lending.

Gerry has written articles in "Family Business Magazine", "The Journal of Corporate Renewal" and "Commercial Lending Review."

He is the author of "UNTAPPED: Capturing Your Company's True Potential" You can order it on Amazon.com

Gerry holds BS and MBA degrees from Boston University.

CASE: "CEO ABRUPTLY CLOSES A UNIT WITHOUT INFORMING THE BOARD AHEAD IF TIME. AND YOU HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT IT."

Please read the Case first.



About Our Moderator Peter Casey:


Peter Casey is a principal of Peter Casey Communications where he serves as strategic communications advisor to corporations and to individuals. For more than two decades Peter was the Director of News and Programming at WBZ NewsRadio, an all-news formatted radio station owned by CBS Radio. Peter has also been a guest lecturer at MIT on business continuity and crisis management.

During Peter's time at WBZ the station received The Peabody Award for its coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombing.




About Our Moderator Tom Kennedy:


Tom Kennedy brings over 20 years of on-air media experience in major markets plus over 15 years strategic communications consulting experience.

Tom's media communications clients include IBM, Iron Mountain, Millipore, Roche, Bosch, Hewlett-Packard, MIT.

Tom helps women technology entrepreneurs through Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology and recently stepped off a Board of Director role with that organization.

CASE: "CEO VS. CFO AND THE BOARD MUST DECIDE."

Please read the Case: "It's CEO vs CFO and the Board Must Pick a Winner."



About Our Moderator Craig Sanders:

Craig Sanders is President of The Verona Group, a leadership solutions organization and a Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB).

His areas of expertise include corporate governance, corporate strategy and repositioning, alternate marketing channels, mergers, acquisitions and in raising funds.

Craig is a four-time CEO, where he led public and private companies.

He also is Co-Founder of the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International, (AUVSI) New England chapter (trade association supporting robotic based companies).

His executive career has been focused on a wide variety of companies in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, technology, net-centric communications and security.

Previous board directorships include Peoples Telephone Company, Inc. (AMEX:PHO), Sprint Communications subsidiary United TeleSentinel, Inc., Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) New England Chapter (Co-Founder), Utilicom Networks LLC, Matrix Telecom LLC and the Boys & Girls Club of Kansas City.

Craig earned his MBA from Pepperdine University.

CASE: "HOW MUCH IS "ENOUGH" DIRECTOR AND OFFICER LIABILITY INSURANCE (D&O) FOR A BOARD MEMBER?"

First: please read the "D&O Insurance Case."

Case Moderator Charles Goodrich’s discussion will cover public, private, and non-profit Board member coverage.

This discussion will also be of value to corporate leaders joining public or private companies in financial distress.

In addition to Mr. Goodrich, 16 invited Board members discussed this case at Stybel Peabody's Seat at the Table. For more information about Seat at the Table, go to boardoptions.com.

About Moderator Charles Goodrich of Goodrich & Associates, Inc.:



Charles Goodrich is a consultant specialized in restructuring and insolvency.

Before launching Goodrich & Associates, Charlie was Vice President, Profit Center Reporting and Budgeting for State Street Corporation.

He also served as the chief financial executive for Budget Rent-A-Car Corporation's Eastern Region with over 90 stores from recently purchased franchises.

Charles holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Virginia.

CASE: "A PUBLIC COMPANY BOARD CHAIR ASKS: WHAT FINANCIAL ISSUES PROPERLY ARE FULL BOARD ISSUES VS. AUDIT COMMITTEE ISSUES."

First: read the case, "Bullard Company."

Next: listen to Ellen Richstone be Chair of the Board as the "Bullard Company" Board deals with it. The participants are 15 invited Board members attending "Seat at the Table" in Boston.

Meet Ellen Richstone



Ellen B. Richstone is a full time Professional Director with experience on boards of companies ranging in from microcap up to Fortune 500. Her industry experience (both Operating and Board) includes: Biotech, Consumer Products, Financial Services, Industrial, Power, Pharmaceuticals; Technology (Computer-Hardware/Software; Semiconductors; Telecommunication Networking).

Ellen is a former private company CEO and former Fortune 500 CFO.

She is currently on the boards of three public companies and chairs the Audit Committee on all three.

In addition to her public board work, Ellen sits on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter and is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow. This is the highest award given by the NACD for Corporate Governance.

Ellen also received the First Annual Distinguished Director Award from the American College of Corporate Directors in 2013.

CASE: "YOU ARE THE EXTERNAL DIRECTOR ON A FAMILY BUSINESS BOARD WHERE THE FAMILY DISAGREES ABOUT GROWTH."

First, please read The Sapphire Company Case.

Meet our Moderator, Janice DiPietro



Exceptional Leaders International (eliadvisors.com) is a team of C-level executives dedicated to guiding their clients, many of whom are family controlled or closely held businesses, through critical periods of transition: growth, performance improvement, and ownership or leadershipchanges.

Janice DiPietro is founder and CEO of Exceptional Leaders International. She also has experience serving on Boards of Directors of private companies, including NewDeal, Green PC, Intellis and Alterix Presently she also serves as an Advisor to the Board of several family and closely held businesses in the manufacturing and professional services sector.

Janice serves as Treasurer and chair of the strategic planning committee of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England.

Her previous roles include President of a human capital consulting firm serving Fortune 500 organizations and leading private equity firms, CEO of several technology, life sciences and business services organizations and consulting with a Big Four CPA firm.

Janice holds an MBA and doctoral degree from Boston University and graduated summa cum laude from Bentley University with a BS in Accountancy.

CASE: "YOU ARE THE FIRST "REAL" OUTSIDE DIRECTOR ON A FAMILY DOMINATED BOARD OF DIRECTORS."

First, Click on the Case and Read. Next, listen to the podcast as Larry Siff leads 20 Board members through a discussion.

Meet our Podcast Moderator, Larry Siff



Larry Siff is the CEO of Neptune Advisors, a consulting firm focused on strategically positioning middle market companies for accelerated growth.

He is the Founder of the Annual Pathway to Platinum Conference designed for CEOs to share best practices in management and oversight.

Mr. Siff, a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow, currently serves on the Board of Directors of Jones & Vining and Mason Companies, Inc. and is an Industry Advisor for Silverwood Partners, a boutique investment bank.

He is a Trustee of the Museum of Science (Executive Committee), Chairman of the Asia-America Chamber of Commerce, a Founder of the Private Director Association of New England, a Director of the New England Business Association, a member of the MA Senate Business Advisory Council, a Director of the Two Ten International Foundation (Executive Committee) and the Winsor School Corporation.

Mr. Siff is the past Chairman of the Brimmer and May School and a past Director of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).

Prior to Neptune Advisors, Mr. Siff was Principal and Managing Director of Gordon Brothers Group, a $50 billion investment and transaction advisory firm.

At Gordon Brothers Group, Mr. Siff founded the consumer products and branding businesses, which grew to become two of the firm's largest divisions.

As its Director of Strategic Acquisitions, he led acquisitions ranging from $5 million to $1.2 billion.

Mr. Siff served on the Executive Committee and was an advisor to GBMP, an equity and debt fund.

He was the President and CEO of Babystripes, Inc., an online retailer of luxury baby gifts, and the President and CEO of Cherry Tree Products, Inc., a manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of high-end children's clothing.

Mr. Siff was the President and CEO of Ambassador Shoe, B.W. Footwear, Inc. and B/W/A International. He established operations at 38 factories in nine countries and successfully sold the company to strategic acquirers.

Mr. Siff began his career at Procter and Gamble, where he created the Wholesale Club Division. Today, this Division accounts for over $3 billion in sales.

He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and the Executive Program at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck BusinessSchool.

THE CEO CONFRONTS A ROGUE TRADER AND AN UNCOOPERATIVE BOARD: WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

First read the case and then listen to Elaine Eisenman lead a group of board members through a "what would you do?" review.

Elaine Eisenman



About Elaine Eisenman

Elaine Eisenman is a member of the boards of directors of public company DSW, Inc.

DSW operates 500 Designer Show Warehouse retail units in 44 states.

For nine years, she served on the board of UST Inc.

She is a founding member and member of the boards of Women Corporate Directors and The Belizean Grove. Elaine's new book is BETRAYED: a survivor's guide to lying, cheating, and double-dealing.

She was previously a Dean at Babson College and has a Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from New York University.

CASE: "THE BUSINESS STRATEGY THAT "GOT YOU HERE," IS DECAYING. AND THERE IS THAT NEW MODEL THAT COULD DESTROY YOUR BUSINESS….."

Please read "Independent Director Digital Transformation/Disruption Case."

Ed Marsh, Jr., IntentData



Ed Marsh is the CRO of IntentData.io, Inc. He also consults for middle market industrial manufacturers on topics of strategy and revenue growth.

A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a former Army Airborne Ranger, he's an NACD Governance Fellow and a member of the ACG.

Much of Ed's work has focused on creating tech-enabled business growth engines for privately held companies in traditional manufacturing industries.

CASE: THE BOARD NEEDS TO COMMENT ON MAKING RADICAL CULTURE CHANGE IN A COMPANY.

Case: The Board Wants the CEO to Create a More Innovative Corporate Culture: how does the Compensation Committee set a reward system for the CEO when we are so focused on quarterly/annual results? Please read the Case Study.

Dr. Henrik Totterman



Dr. Henrik Totterman has over 20 years’ experience as a serial entrepreneur and higher education leader in global entrepreneurship.

He worked for 8 years as Dean of the International Business School of Hult University in Boston and currently serves as Professor of Practice. He also works with corporate clients as the President of LEADX3M LLC.

TRENDS IN BOARD AND CEO COMPENSATION AS COMPANIES GROW

What happens to Board and executive compensation as companies grow and develop to the next stage?

How do cash compensation or equity plans change as the firm gets larger?

We will explore these and related subjects in this engaging discussion about compensation for the Board of Directors and a firm's senior leadership.

MEET TOM WILSON



Tom Wilson is the founder and President of the Wilson Group (www.wilsongroup.com). WG is a consulting firm that specializes in designing and implementing performance-based reward systems for executives, sales, and total organizations.

WG clients include Care.com, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, iRobot, HYCU Technology, Quincy Mutual Insurance and DentaQuest.

Tom is an international authority on reward systems in high performance organizations. His books include:

        INNOVATIVE REWARD SYSTEMS FOR THE CHANGING WORKPLACE.

        REWARDS THAT DRIVE HIGH PERFORMANCE.

CASE: "HELP THE WORLD: GENERAL COUNSEL: HIRE A THIRD PARTY BOARD OF DIRECTOR COMPLIANCE MONITOR BEFORE THE COURTS REQUIRE IT;" CEO: "NO WAY!"

Please read the Case Study: The Story of "Help the World"

Meet Our Moderator



Katherine Keyes:

Catherine Keyes is the Vice President of Operations for Affiliated Monitors, Inc. (AMI).

As a Monitor, Ms. Keyes has monitored the spectrum of healthcare providers, including individual physicians, large group practices, laboratories, retail pharmacies, and hospitals. In addition, Ms. Keyes has conducted ethics and compliance monitoring in higher education, international aid, government consulting, and telecommunications.

With another colleague, she developed an internet-based survey tool on ethical culture.

Prior to joining Affiliated Monitors in 2004 she was Executive Director of six professional licensing boards for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

She was a board member and former president of the Massachusetts Society for Healthcare Risk Management. She is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and is admitted to the bar in Massachusetts.

CASE: "HOW GOOD IS 'GOOD ENOUGH':" LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION IN A SMALL PROFESSIONAL SERVICE BUSINESS AND THE ROLE OF INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS.

Please read the case "Leadership Succession: How Good is 'Good Enough'?"

Meet Our Moderator



LouAnn Muir:

LouAnn has been an HR management consultant and human resources executive for over twenty-five years and continues to provide HR advisory work through her LLC.

Fidelity Investments contains 30+ private corporations, she led the design, launch and program management for seeding enterprise-wide succession tracks.

LouAnn was responsible for development of the executive succession plans produced for the Board of Directors of the Alfred I. duPont family charitable trust (Nemours Foundation) of Jacksonville, FL and Wilmington, DE.

Her work has been recognized by Accenture’s Institute for High Performance.

LouAnn is on the Advisory Board of a professional services firm.

She received her MPH from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

CASE: "FIRE THIS CPA PARTNER!"

Please read the case "Fire This CPA Partner!"

Meet Our Moderator



George Neble:

George Neble is a well-known and well-regarded figure within the Boston area entrepreneurial community.

His clients have included Acme Packet, EnerNOC, Carbonite, Brightcove, Trip Advisor, Casual Male Retail Group, Cambridge Soundworks, Abiomed, and Skillsoft.

As Managing Partner of Ernst & Young's Boston Office and New England Market Segment Leader from 2012-2017 he led double digit market growth and revenue growth. During his tenure, EY life science team achieved #1 status in the Boston IPO market. George was responsible for nearly 2,000 professionals during a period of major corporate culture change. He was part of the EY leadership team that helped the firm be recognized by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as one of the best places to work in the United States.

As a Partner at Arthur Andersen, he led the Internet practice and specialized in the Boston venture capital and private equity worlds. He helped stabilize clients and employees during Arthur Anderson's demise. All his corporate clients followed George to EY once he joined the firm.

George is a Board member for EverQuote, a NASDAQ listed company and Senior Advisor to AVALT, a Boston based private equity focused family office. He also is working with a number of emerging growth companies in a board and/or advisory board role.

Previous Board roles include Trustee for the Yawkey Foundation II, Massachusetts Societyof CPAs, and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay.

George received his B.S. in Accounting from Boston College.

GIRL SCOUT CASE: THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NOW ADMITS GIRLS. YOU ARE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE SOUTH REGIONAL GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA. NOW WHAT???!!

Please read the case "Can Scouting Shrink its Way to Greatness?"

Girl Scout Chair of the Board is Portrayed by Lisa Cohen. Lisa also wrote the case.



Lisa Cohen:

Lisa Cohen is the CEO and Principal of Capital Motion, a boutique consulting firm serving mission-driven organizations.

Lisa is an entrepreneur, having launched a successful firm: a leading advisory, research, and strategy firm active in the sustainable investing space.

Lisa was a Managing Director and SeniorVice President at Evergreen Investments, a Director at John Hancock, and a Director at the GirlScouts, and ran lines of business that resulted in significant asset and money raises at each organization.

Lisa is a graduate of Smith College and has completed Harvard's ExecutiveEducation program in Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance.

Lisa is a member of the Boston Club's Nonprofit Board and Marketing Committees and is a past president of both the Boston Smith College Club and Boston Women Communicators. She was a founding board member of the0020historic Dwight-Derby House Board of Directors.


Girl Scout CEO is Portrayed by Astrid Hendren.



Astrid Hendren:

Astrid was born in the Netherlands and came to the United States at the age of 19, speaking very little English. True to her entrepreneurial spirit, she launched "All Things Dutch" in 1991 in the days before the Internet, working closely with well-known Dutch companies HEMA and AHOLD.

She later sold the mail order company and subsequently started an Executive Search Consulting firm.

In 2007 she accepted a full-time position with the American Heart Association, where she served as a Director for ten years.

In June 2017, Astrid launched an exciting non-profit called Cause Fund, Inc., which offers a program that focuses on the theme that "Surviving Is All Around Us™". Cause Day offers choices about the health charity people want to donate to while coming together to create a community of empathy and compassion. The platform includes all health causes including; ALS, Alzheimer's, Autism, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke, Hunger, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Veterans, MS, Leukemia and Lymphoma, Cystic Fibrosis, Rare Diseases, etc.

Astrid Hendren is the author of Surviving Lasts a Lifetime, a memoir of her traumatic, near-death experience, when she had a massive brain-bleed at the age of 32. She is a frequent speaker, called on to inspire and motivate large & small audiences with her story of survival as it relates to health, wellness and the community.

CASE: "IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT, GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN."

Please read the CASE STUDY

Tom Tully Sports Center is expanding and poised to achieve its exit strategy.

Founder/CEO Tom Tully has been THE central figure at Tom Tully Sports Center. Just as the company is about to launch its IPO a complaint has been filed about Tom creating a "hostile work environment."

Tom sold the majority interest to Golz Investment Partners, a private equity firm.

Tom Tully Sports Chair of the board Karen Golz has called a meeting to discuss "what do we do now?"

Tom Tully insists on attending the meeting.

The Corporate General Counsel will also be at the meeting.


CAST MEMBERS IN THIS CASE:



Karen M. Golz:

Tom Tully Sports Chair of the Board: Karen M. Golz, former Global Vice Chair and head of Professional Practice for Ernst & Young. She is Senior Advisor to The Boston Consulting Group's Audit and Risk Committee. Karen received her B.S. in Accountancy form the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.




David Gabor:

Tom Tully Sports General Counsel: David Gabor is a partner in The Wagner Law Group in Boston. His expertise is employment law and human resource management. David’s legal experience includes both Massachusetts and New York State. He was named a 2017 Massachusetts Super Lawyer and is on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Educational Foundation. David received his J.D. form the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Centerat Touro College and his B.A. from the University of Michigan.




Larry Stybel:

Tom Tully Sports Founder/CEO, Tom Tully: Larry Stybel is a psychologist and an entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Board Options, Inc. and Stybel Peabody Associates. Areas of expertise revolve around retained search, leadership development, and executive outplacement. He and Maryanne Peabody are co-authors of "NAVIGATING THE WATERFALL, a book about leadership and career management in the 21st Century." PSYCHOLOGY TODAY publishes their monthly perspectives on leadership, "Platform for Success." There have been over 260,000 downloads. In addition to co-leading Seat at the Table programs for Board members, Larry and his partner also lead the COO Forum of Boston, the Chief Medical Officer of Boston Dinner Club, and the Boston Chief HR Officer Breakfast Club. Larry is Adjunct Lecturer in Leadership at the D'Amore Mckim Business School at Northeastern University. He received his doctorate in psychology from Harvard University and is licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Larry has been on the Board of a venture backed tech company in the HRIS space and the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter).

KARTHIK KRISHNAN CASE: "ARE YOU SERIOUS? CEO OF A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY RECOMMENDS A CHANGE IN THE BOARD OF DIRECTOR COMPENSATION PLAN: GOAL IS TO STIMULATE INNOVATION OR PUNISH OLDER DIRECTORS FROM BIGGER COMPANIES?"

Please read the Karthik Krishnan Case



Meet Karthik Krishnan, our Moderator:

Dr. Karthik Krishnan is the CEO and co-founder of MentorWorks Education Capital, LLC. It provides education finance through income share agreements, career networking and mentor support to students in higher education.

He is also tenured Associate Professor of Finance (on leave) at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and works with student startups as an advisor. He is an angel investor and was a member of the Launchpad Venture Group.

Dr. Krishnan's research has been cited in media outlets such as Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Dow Jones Newswires.

Dr. Krishnan holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Delhi University and a Ph.D. in finance from Boston College.

L&M FABRICS CASE: "CEO SAYS TO THE BOARD: "YOU NEED TO REVISE THIS COMPENSATION PROGRAM……OR I LEAVE AND I CAN’T PROMISE MY SENIOR TEAM WILL STAY."

First read the L&M Fabrics Case and then listen to the mp3 discussion of the case. There were 18 Board members present at "Seat at the Table."

The substantive discussion begins two minutes into the mp3 file.

Our moderators are Tom Wilson and Les Charm:



TOM WILSON

Tom Wilson is the founder and President of the Wilson Group located in Concord, Massachusetts (www.wilsongroup.com). WGI is a consulting firm that specializes in designing and implementing performance-based reward systems for executives, sales, and total organizations. Their clients include Shepley Bulfinch, IANS Technology, Care.com, Boston Symphony Orchestra, MorphoTrust, iRobot, Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

He has worked with numerous boards and top executives to assess the competitiveness and effectiveness of total direct compensation plans. He frequently works with Boards and executives to develop high impact bonus and equity based compensation plans for both public and private companies. He is the author of four books including Changes for Challenging Times - A Special Report on Business Conditions and Compensation Trends and Innovative Reward Systems for the Changing Workplace. He has written over 30 articles, book chapters and special features for Fortune Magazine, the Conference Board, Financial Times and Boards and Directors. He has been quoted in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Business Journal.

He holds a Master's degree from Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management and Bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University.





LES CHARM

Les Charm is a professional advisor to owners/managers. He's a professional director for both public and private companies.

Since 1985 he has been a senior lecturer in Leadership at Babson College.

Leslie received his B.S. in accounting at Babson College and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

DEALING WITH THAT ARROGANT CEO

Case: "I'm an External Board Member Who Can’t Stand My Brilliant But Arrogant CEO. On The Other Hand, I Don't Want to Quit……".

Steve Jenks, Ph.D. and Fritz Steele, Ph.D. Co-Authors of The Arrogant Leader: Dealing with the Excesses of Power.

Fritz Steele



About Fritz Steele…..

For over 40 years, Fritz Steele has been involved in projects aimed at reshaping organizational settings and work culture. Heoperates at the the intersection of workspace, the flexible organization and new ways of working in a creative, knowledge-based world.

He is a member of the boards of the York Art Association and York Community Services Association, and board member (VP) of the Madsonian Museum of Industrial Design.

He has a B.S. from Yale and a PhD in Organizational Studies from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

A selection of his books includes:

The Arrogant Leader: Dealing with the Excesses of Power, (with Steve Jenks) (2013)

Workplace by Design: Mapping the High-Performance Workscape, (with Frank Becker) (1995)

Physical Settings & Organization Development (1973)


Stephen Jenks



About Stephen Jenks…..

Steve is an expert in organization behavior in growing organizations.

He was a founder of the Portsmouth Consulting Group, an association of senior free-lance consultants from 1981-2017.

Stephen received his B.A. in Psychology from the College of Wooster, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University).

He is the coauthor of three books: "The Feel of the Work Place: Understanding and Improving Organization Climate" (1977), "Designing and Managing Organizations" (1983), and "The Arrogant Leader: Dealing with the Excesses of Power" (with Fritz Steele) (2012). He also co-authored a chapter in "Executive Coaching" (2002) entitled "Coaching Entrepreneurs."

Stephen has served on boards of directors from 1980 to the present.

He is past president of the Association for Consulting Expertise.

YOU ARE THE EXTERNAL BOARD MEMBER IN A FAMILY BUSINESS THAT HAS HATFIELDS VS. MCCOY DYNAMICS. HOW DO YOU GET SOMETHING ACCOMPLISHED?

Click here to download the Family Feud Case.

Meet Your Case Moderator



Stephen Honig

Stephen Honig is a corporate partner in the Boston office of the international law firm DuaneMorris, LLP. Steve's practice includes corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions.

Steve writes regularly on governance and corporate issues both for InHouse (the newspaper for inside corporate counsel) and for his own blog site (www.honiglawblog.com).

A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School.

CASE: CEO INFORMS THE BOARD THERE IS A RANSOM NOTE IN THE WAKE OF A CYBER THEFT. IS THE THREAT REAL OR IS IT A BLUFF?

Click here to download the Cyber Attack Case.

Our Moderators



James Shields….will be the CEO/Chair in this case.

In real life, Jim is a consultant and board member. He is retired as President of Draper Laboratory, a nonprofit organization devoted to developing guidance, navigation, and control technology for space exploration and defense systems.

During his years at Draper, he increased revenue by nearly 60 percent and expanded the organization's strategic scope to include biomedical and energy systems. He built new government-industry partnerships and led or contributed to studies on topics ranging from electronic warfare to integrating sensor-collected intelligence.

Jim earned two MIT degrees in electrical engineering and began his career at TASC.



Ken Itrato…will be General Counsel in this case.

Ken is a Principal with Faber Law Group of Waltham, Massachusetts.

Ken assists his clients to address a wide range of transactional, financing and strategic business issues. He handles a range of funding transactions including venture capital, private equity, angel financing, and debt. Ken also has a strong mergers and acquisitions practice. He advises his clients with respect to the legal implications of their day-to-day operations, from complex customer and supplier relationships to employment and equity compensation. He also counsels clients on mission-critical licensing and partnering transactions involving core assets, technologies and/or products.

Ken received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he earned the Order of the Coif and a B.A. from Cornell University. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy.

ELLEN RICHSTONE: HOW TO DEVELOP PUBLIC COMPANY BOARD OPTIONS IN YOUR CAREER.

Click here to download the PowerPoint Presentation by Ellen Richstone.



Ellen Richstone

Developing Public Company Board of Director Options in Your Career.

Ellen Richstone is currently a full time Independent Board Director. She has been a Public Company Board Director for a variety of companies ranging in size from small cap up to S&P 500 over the past 15 years.

Ellen is a former CEO, former CFO of several public and private companies including a Fortune 500 (Rohr Aerospace) and former VP Treasurer of a Fortune 500 Company.

As a Board Member, Ellen is currently sitting on four public company boards in the following industries: Technology, Chemicals; Clean Tech and Industrial. (eMagin, BioAmber, Orion Energy Systems and Superior Industries).

She is a qualified Financial Expert and Chairs three Audit Committees. She was on the Board of American Power Conversion until its sale.

Ellen was given the first annual Distinguished Director Award from the American College of Corporate Directors (CDG), an organization of 1500 public company directors nationwide. She also serves on the Board of the National Association of Corporate Directors in New England.

Case: "ABC Engineering Board: Focus on Long Term Value for Shareholders or the Short Term Crisis?"

This podcast contains a case study led by George Raftopoulos.



Meet Moderator George Raftopoulos

George Raftopoulos is a serial entrepreneur.

He first spent 25 years growing a registered investment advisory firm that became one of the largest offices by revenue in the country for a national broker/dealer. Having expanded the firm both organically and through acquisitions, he sold the practice.

Cowners grow revenue while preparing for ownership transition.

George is a graduate of Tufts University with a BA in economics and an MBA from Bentley University.

"THE FAMILY BUSINESS HAS TO MAKE A DIFFICULT DECISION: YOU ARE THE NON FAMILY EXTERNAL DIRECTOR." DAVID KAROFSKY, FAMILY BUSINESS CONSULTING GROUP.

This podcast contains a case and then a discussion about the case led by David Karofsky.

The program is 70 minutes.



Meet Moderator David Karofsky

David Karofsky is a consultant with The Family Business Consulting Group with over 25 years of experience coaching and consulting to individuals, families and companies to develop better cross-team communication and build alignment among the senior management team. His client work is focused on executing the transition of ownership and leadership, professional development, conflict resolution, strategic planning and forming governance structures for family and closely-held businesses.

Prior to working with The Family Business Consulting Group, David worked in his own family business consulting practice with his father, Paul for eight years. The father-son team are the authors of So You're in the Family Business: A Guide to Sustainability. In addition, David was vice president of marketing for a software start-up where he helped launch the company and raise over $10 million in funding.

David is a founding member and former chair of the Boston chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization's Young Adult Forum, member of the Family Firm Institute where he holds certificates in Family Wealth and Family Business Advising, former member of the Board of Directors of the Mazie Mentoring Program and a former member of the Executive Board of Directors for the Men’s Associates at Hebrew SeniorLife.

David is a graduate of Bowdoin College and received his Ed.M. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University and his MBA from Northeastern University.

"CEO SAYS: 'WE ARE INNOVATIVE.' BOARD MEMBER SAYS: 'PROVE IT.'" JILL WITTELS, PH.D.



About Moderator Jill Wittels

Jill Wittels has been the Chairman of the Board of eMagin Corp., since August 2011. She serves on the Board of Directors of Millivision Inc.

Previous roles include Director of Innovation at Micro Technology Inc.

Dr. Wittels served on the Board of Overseers for the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Lab, is a member of the American Physical Society and a Member of the American Astronomical Society.

She began her career as a Systems Engineer and has also served as a Congressional Fellow for the American Physical Society, a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a senior visiting scientist for the National Academy of Sciences. She received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from MIT and a PhD in Physics from MIT.

Her business career includes Vice President of Business Development of L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. Dr. Wittels served as Vice President of Business Development and Chief Technologist of L-3 Communications Corporation.

From 1997 to 2000, she served as Vice President and General Manager of Infrared Imaging Systems, a division of BAE Systems, (formerly, Lockheed Martin). From July 1998 to February 2001, she served as President and General Manager of BAE Systems' Information and Electronic Warfare Systems/Infrared and Imaging Systems division and its predecessor company.

"BUILD IT, BUY IT, OR USE IT THROUGH ALLIANCES?" BEN GOMES-CASSERES, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY.

This is a 60 minute podcast in which Ben Gomes-Casseres leads 12 Board members in a discussion about a case of a Philadelphia life sciences company requiring a particular product to successfully compete in the marketplace. That product might exist at an Israeli R&D company, but it is not clear whether or not the company can produce enough for commercial use. Plus the Israeli owners are difficult to deal with.

Should the Philadelphia company buy the Israeli company, engage in a joint venture, or form a contractual purchasing relationship?



MODERATOR BEN GOMES-CASSERES

BEN GOMES-CASSERES's newest book is Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015). Ben is a professor at the International Business School, Brandeis University and previously was a professor at Harvard Business School. Prior to that, he was an economist at the World Bank.

Ben consults with companies seeking to create value from external resources and to improve the way they manage business partnerships.

He holds degrees from Harvard, Princeton, and Brandeis.

You can look Ben up www.remixstrategy.com.

CASE: "WE DON'T NEED NO THIRD PARTY TO ASSESS OUR ETHICS!" VINCENT DICIANNI, AFFILIATED MONITORS, INC.

In this podcast, there is a case you can download called "Help the World." The Board of this global Non-Government Organization must make a decision.

You can read the case and then listen to 15 Board members comment on it.

This 35 minute audio program has a long stretch of silence as the participants read the case. Please fast forward through the silence.



MODERATOR VINCENT L. DICIANNI

Vincent L. DiCianni has served as the president of Affiliated Monitors, Inc. ("AMI") since its inception in 2004. AMI was founded with the goal of creating a company to bridge the gap between regulatory agencies, licensing boards, and corporate bodies.

AMI services include independent compliance/integrity monitoring, compliance/best practices programs, staffing confidential reporting hotlines and independent third party assessments. AMI's practice is global.

Mr. DiCianni served as Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was a partner at Boston's Rubin & Rudman. His B.A. and J.D. are from Suffolk University.

"THE SHAREHOLDER ACTIVIST COMES CALLING." MAUREEN WOLFF, SHARON MERRILL ASSOCIATES, INC.

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About Maureen Wolff

Maureen Wolff is Chief Executive Officer of Sharon Merrill Associates, a nationally recognized investor relations strategic advisory firm. For more than 30 years, Sharon Merrill's principals have earned wide recognition for award-winning programs, innovative approaches to investor relations and leadership in IR best practices.

She is a past chairman and board member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), a NIRI Fellow, Vice Chairman of the NIRI IR Certification committee and a member of NIRI's Senior IR Roundtable steering committee. Maureen is a trusted advisor to CEOs, CFOs and boards of directors on critical communications issues related to corporate governance, shareholder activism and proxy contests, and Regulation Fair Disclosure.

She is a frequent speaker on investor relations issues and has delivered speeches and participated on investor relations panel discussions at conferences sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange, the National Association of Corporate Directors, NIRI, the Publicity Club of New England, Business Wire and other professional development organizations. She has lectured at universities in the Boston area and has appeared on CNBC, and her comments have been featured in national newspapers and magazines, including Bloomberg Magazine, BusinessWeek Online, CFO Magazine, Compliance Week, Financial Week, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, IR Update and Management Review. In addition, Maureen has received numerous awards from the Public Relations Society of America, the Publicity Club of New England and Women's Business magazine.

Prior to joining Sharon Merrill in 1985, Maureen held positions in the investor relations and corporate communications departments at Lotus Development Corporation.

"THE MATHEMATICS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING AT BOARD LEVELS: NOMINATION OF INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS IN RELATION TO SOCIAL DISTANCE FROM THE COMPANY'S CEO." KATHY FOGEL, ZINOPLEX, INC.



About Kathy Fogel

This is a 42 minute podcast attended by 13 Board members and CEOs.

Attached to this podcast are the hand outs that Kathy provided.

The hand outs include her research plus a WSJ article plus the definition of "independent" director.

The issue in this discussion is how independent can an independent director be if that director is within the CEO's social network?

Kathy Fogel, an expert in behavioral finance, is CEO of Zinoplex, a big data SaaS company that objectively measures power.

Zinoplex's first product is Zpower, an objective measure of how deep one's connections are versus the LinkedIn focus on the sheer number of connections. Stybel Peabody and Board Options use Zpower as a tool in their retained search candidate research. Other uses of ZPower are as a tool to help focus business development/sales professionals on their most critical relationships.

Kathy has published several papers that answered the conflicting research about the relationship between independent board members and shareholder value. She and her team found evidence that the critical issue is not director independence itself but powerful/independent directors.

A director may be legally independent yet lack the power to raise fundamental questions with the CEO.

An example might be the CEO's selection of a college roommate as an "independent" director or the private equity partner's nomination of a CEO when that CEO depends upon the partner for future CEO assignments or Board roles.

In other research papers she found evidence to suggest that less sector connected CEOs have BETTER acquisition results than well connected CEOs.

Kathy received her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Canada and her BA from Nankai University, China.

www.zinoplex.com

THE CASE OF AN AUDIT COMMITTEE "KEEPING ITS EYES ON THE BALL." TRACY CURLEY, CPA. MARCUM, LLP.

This is an 60 minute podcast featuring 12 Board members discussing a three part case under the direction of Tracy Curley.



TRACY CURLEY

Meet Tracy Curley, Assurance Partner at Marcum, LLP.

Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation, with offices in major business markets throughout the U.S., Grand Cayman and China.

She serves as the New England High Technology Industry Group Leader.

Ms. Curley has been involved in and assisted clients with initial Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registrations, as well as ongoing SEC reporting and compliance, complex accounting and financial matters, and audit engagements. Her experience spans working with private, developmental stage and start-up organizations all the way through publicly traded, international multi-billion dollar corporations.

"THE COMPENSATION COMMITTEE MANAGES A DILEMMA."

With changing regulatory disclosure requirements and dynamic markets, the challenge to structure executive compensation plans is becoming more intense. Welcome to our virtual "working session" where we will examine one public company's current conditions, and address key questions related to its executive compensation: stock options versus restricted stock units?

What are the right measures for performance based equity awards? How should they be different from annual bonus plans?

What are the risks and implications of new "pay ratio" requirements?

How do you address the pressures of ISS and Glass-Lewis assessments?

These and other questions (and trends) will be discussed in this engaging and informative podcast.

Ten real Board members went over the case and you are listening to their feedback.

The moderator is Tom Wilson.

First read the Case and then listen to the podcast.

"CONFLICTS BETWEEN PRIVATE EQUITY PARTNERS AND PORTFOLIO COMPANY CEOs: THE ROLE OF THE EXTERNAL BOARD MEMBER."

This 50 minute podcast begins with a case, "Bounce Energy Systems."

Read the case and then join our conversation!



MODERATOR LARRY STYBEL

Larry Stybel is a licensed doctoral level psychologist and an entrepreneur who works with complex organizations on leadership issues. He and partner Maryanne Peabody founded Stybel Peabody 36 years ago. Its mission: "leadership and career success" for senior executives. Core services revolve around retained search+, leadership coaching, and executive outplacement.

Clients include 21% of the one hundred companies named by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers in the United States" plus two of the Big Four CPA firms, 60% of the largest twenty Boston law firms, 60% of the largest twenty Massachusetts health care delivery systems, five of the largest seven Massachusetts institutions of higher education, and four top tier private equity firms.

Stybel Peabody does work with Single Family Offices around the world on career and leadership issues. Larry is on the faculty of the Family Office Association Entrepreneurship Institute.

The firm works with retired basketball athletes through the National Basketball Association Retired Players Association, sponsored by both the National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Players Association.

Stybel Peabody has a Special Relationship with the Financial Executives International, the professional association of senior corporate finance leaders. Larry gave a speech at the national FEI convention in Colorado Springs in May, 2016.

Larry and Maryanne own a second company called Board Options, Inc.

Founded in 199, Board Options, Inc. provides an online market place so that Nominating & Governance Committees can have a transparent selection of Board candidates from a curated list of qualified and educated Board members around the world. Boardoptions.com also provides online education for Board members and is an expert resource to Boards on governance matters.

Larry received his M.A. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and his doctorate from Harvard University in organization behavior under Chris Argyris. He began his career with Hay Associates Management Consultants doing executive compensation, organization development, and psychological assessments of leaders at Fortune 500 companies.

In addition to leading his own companies, Larry has been on the Board of the New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors and serves on the Boards of Fittus and Zinoplex.

Larry and Maryanne run monthly programs for Boston area board members called Seat at the Table. Six times a year, they meet with Boston area COOs and EVPs for dinner and discussion through the cooforum.org. Larry ran a similar group for CFOs of public companies for the Financial Executives International Boston Chapter.

He is frequently quoted in the WALL STREET JOURNAL. Larry's perspectives about leadership, governance, and career management have been published in the CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW, HARVAR D BUSINESS REVIEW, and MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW. Maryanne and Larry have a book in progress called IN THE WATERFALL: the 21^st Century Guide to Successful Job Search and More.

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY publishes their monthly perspectives as "PSCHOLOGY TODAY PLATFORM FOR SUCCESS: the making of great leaders."

      https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/platform-success

"TRENDS IN CYBERSECURITY: A GUIDE FOR BOARD MEMBERS." DON ULSCH, PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS AND AUTHOR OF CYBER THREAT. (NEW YORK: WILEY, 2014).

This is a 74 minute podcast from Board Options, Inc.



Don Ulsch

Don Ulsch uncovered one of the largest industrial espionage and financial fraud cases in U.S. history, which was prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Don has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of forensic investigations, cybercrime, national security and information security management. He is in PWC's Cybercrime & Breach Response practice.

Working with many of the most established and well known corporate brands, as well as law enforcement and the intelligence community, he has led many cyber breach investigations and advised executive management on breach management strategy and mitigation execution.

Don's cyber breach investigative work has been across multiple industries, from financial services and defense to retail, manufacturing and healthcare. These cyber breach cases included the compromise of regulated personal information, as well as intellectual property and trade secret theft and fraud.

He was Trusted Advisor to the United States Secrecy Commission, also known as the Moynihan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy. For more than a decade he worked with the National Security Institute and remains an advisory board member there.

Don has appeared on Fox News as a cybercrime and breach analyst and on other television and radio programs.

He is the author of two books: Threat! Managing Risk in a Hostile World (The IIA Research Foundation, July 2008) and Cyber Threat! How to Manage the Growing Risk of Cyber Attacks (John Wiley & Sons, July 2014).

"WAR GAME BOARD SIMULATION: CUSTOMER RECORDS ARE COMPROMISED BY CYBER THEFT. NOW WHAT SHOULD THE BOARD DO???!!!" JIM SATTERFIELD, FIRESTORM, INC.



Jim Satterfield

James (Jim) W. Satterfield is co-founder of Firestorm®.

Based in Atlanta and with offices around the country, Firestorm focuses on crisis management, threat assessment, disaster preparedness and business continuity planning.

Jim has extensive expertise in the identification and quantification of risk.

Jim has led in the development of national standards for risk management, environmental risk and environmental due diligence.

Jim led the Firestorm team that provided the crisis and media management support at Virginia Tech in response to the shootings.

He was previously EVP for Frontier Insurance Group.

Jim's M.S. in Management & Engineering is from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

"BOARD MEMBERS AND THE COMING LIABILITY TSUNAMI: FUNDING EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT COMMITMENTS."

As companies merge/acquire it is almost too easy for employee retirement liability to be treated as a secondary concern.

As many U.S. cities know, it is a time bomb.

That time bomb also extends to Board members of private/public companies.

In this program, Marcia Wagner provides us with two cases and discusses Board member risk in managing employee retirement funds. There were 14 Board members in attendance. This program is 75 minutes long.

The Case: Fiduciary Liability Review of 21st Century Company Retirement Plans.



Marcia S. Wagner

Marcia S. Wagner is an attorney, entrepreneur, and advisor to Boards of Fortune 500 companies.

She is the founder of The Wagner Law Group, one of the nation's largest boutique law firms, specializing in ERISA, employee benefits and executive compensation.

Marcia was appointed to the IRS Tax Exempt & Government Entities Advisory Committee and ended her three-year term as the Chair of its Employee Plans subcommittee.

She received the IRS' Commissioner's Award.

Marcia is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. For the past eight years, 401k Wire has listed Ms. Wagner as one of its 100 Most Influential Persons in the 401(k) industry, and she has received the Top Women of Law Award in Massachusetts.

She is listed among the Top 25 Attorneys in New England.

Marcia is a frequent guest on FOX, CNN, Bloomberg, and NBC.

She received her B.A. from Cornell University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

"THE DARK SIDE OF PRIVATE EQUITY: ROLE OF INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS ON PE DOMINATED BOARDS."

This is a 65 minute Podcast containing two cases (see links below) discussed by twelve board members at Board Options' Seat at the Table program.

Case #1: The "Ain't No Sunshine Case."

Case #2: The "Love Lost Case."



Mark DiSalvo

The moderator is Mark DiSalvo of Semaphore, Inc. (www.sema4usa.com)

Semaphore takes over troubled Venture and Private Equity Funds, is a New Markets Tax Credit program provider and advises General and Limited Partners around the world.

Semaphore's corporate headquarters are in Boston with principal offices in New York, Dallas and London. Semaphore currently holds fiduciary obligations as General Partner or Manager for eight Private Equity funds.

A frequent speaker at worldwide industry conferences, Mark was educated at the University of Massachusetts with graduate degrees in Political Studies and Economics. He is a long-time lecturer at the Johnson School of Business at Cornell University and the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.

Mark's areas of expertise revolves around working with private equity investors to turn-around troubled companies, emerging market economics and cross-border M&A. Mark lives in the Boston area.

"THE PROS AND CONS FOR BOARDS TO CONSIDER IN GOING FROM PUBLIC TO PRIVATE." RICHARD MARCUS, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN BILTRITE.

This program was presented at Stybel Peabody/Board Options' Seat at the Table with 15 Board members present.

The podcast covers the pros and cons of going from a public to private company using the framework of a case discussion.

This podcast is 56 minutes long and features PUBLIC TO PRIVATE CASE PART 1 and PUBLIC TO PRIVATE CASE PART 2.




About Our Moderator Richard G. Marcus

Richard G. Marcus is President, Chief Operating Officer and member of the Board of Directors of American Biltrite.

He served as Executive Vice President of Congoleum from 2010 to 2012 and former Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Congoleum from 1994 to 2010.

His professional experience includes the operations of both manufacturing businesses and jewelry distribution.

For more information about American Biltrite:

http://www.ambilt.com

"NONPROFIT BOARD DUTY WHEN FINANCES ARE MOVING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION."

Case Statement - What Level of ‘Financial Distress' Triggers a Change in Board Fiduciary Obligation. And Obligation to Whom?



About Our Moderator Barry Koslow

Barry Koslow is President and CEO of MKA Executive & Professional Benefits, Inc. in Woburn, MA. For more than forty years, MKA has serves publicly and privately held business and professional entities across the U.S. with customized supplemental non-qualified retirement and deferred compensation plans and retirement cash flow planning.

In his MKA work, Barry deals with Compensation Committees of Boards of Directors.

And he also services on Boards.

He has served on the Board of New England Sinai Hospital for more than 20 years. Barry served as Board Chair for the organization since 2012 through its sale to Steward.

He has served Chair of Special Olympics Massachusetts Board.

Barry is a graduate of Northeastern University and Boston University School of Law.

"WHEN IS SHAREHOLDER VALUE ADVANCED BY BOARDS HIRING LESS SECTOR CONNECTED CEOs?"

This podcast contains a case that was the subject of discussion by the 16 Board members attending Seat at the Table.

The moderator for this program is Kathy Fogel.

The case and the podcast have links below. This program is 60 minutes long.

Link to podcast by Kathy Fogel

Link to Case "OTGiant's acquisition of DMini"




About Kathy Fogel

Kathy Fogel is an economist-turned entrepreneur who cherishes the Schumpeterian theories of innovation and entrepreneurship. After ten years as assistant and associate professors of finance, she founded Zinoplex, Inc. It uses big data to quantify relationship and behavior and helps salespeople and marketers to connect with people outside of their immediate network intelligently. Zinoplex also produces Personal Power Indices (PPI) to measure board members' "power" to influence others, compared to their legal compliance with the formal definition of "independent director."

Powerful directors and legally independent directors are not necessarily the same. Can a director really be independent if the director lacks a base of independent power?

Stybel Peabody has used Zinoplex technology in its retained searches.

More About Kathy:

Sample Research Into Measuring Power of Independent Directors:

http://www.stybelpeabody.com/newsite/pdf/powerfulindependentdirectors.pdf

About Zinoplex:
www.zinoplex.com

"THE BOARD'S ROLE IN THE MARKET BASKET CASE CRISIS."

Business schools will still be teaching about mistakes made by the Board of Directors in the Market Basket Case in 2044.

During 2014 a family dispute about power in a private grocery chain escalated into a full-blown war. One side of the family won. The Board declared a winner.

Unfortunately, Market Basket employees, vendors, and customers preferred the side not selected by the Board.

Guess who won in the end?

What was the process by which this Board got so out of touch with company stakeholders? How can you avoid not knowing where your key stakeholders stand?

ABOUT OUR MODERATORS

Mark Furman and Harry King



Mark Furman

Mark Furman is partner with the Boston law firm of Tarlow, Breed, Hart & Rogers. He is also Chair of the firm's Litigation Department. Mark has over thirty-five years of experience representing business owners, financial institutions, and families in complex civil litigation. Mark is a member of the Firm's Management Committee.




Harry King

Harry King received the Pulitzer Prize for his work as a journalist when he was with the Boston Globe.

Harry has a crisis communication practice where managing media messaging is critical.

Prior to setting up his own practice, he was news director at The Monitor Channel, city editor at The Boston Globe and managing editor at the Boston Herald American.

"THE ACQUISITION IS DONE: LET THE BLAMING BEGIN!"

According to SRS/Acquiam, M&A Deal Teams Study (2014) 66% of acquisitions valued at $50 Million+ have post-acquisition disputes. How can CEOs and Board members of acquiring companies reduce the post acquisition dispute trend?

This podcast is a discussion between two Grant Thornton partners and 12 Board members or CEOs who were invited to attend this program. The podcast is 55 minutes;

  

Len Pepe and Ben Brandes

Our Moderators:

Len Pepe is Audit Partner and New England Leader of Industries and Markets. Ben Brandes is National Private Equity Director. More details about their background will be given in the podcast.

"A BOARD MEMBER MAY BE VIOLATING DUTY OF LOYALTY PLUS A SIGNED NON-COMPETE AGREEMENT. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT??"

There are two components to this 50 minute audio program: (1) a case written by our Moderator called "Navigating Non-Compete Agreements" and (2) the mp3 of with our Moderator discussing the case with 16 Board members.

Why don't you read the case and then listen to the discussion?



Our Moderator: Alison Reif

Alison Reif is a partner in Boston's Choate, Hall & Stewart's Labor, Employment & Benefits Group, where she has practiced for 17 years. She represents clients in all areas of labor and employment law. Ms. Reif also specializes in advising international companies, particularly in Canada, that are starting operations in the United States and require assistance in navigating United States employment laws.

Ms. Reif has repeatedly been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer. She serves on the Board of Directors for Greater Boston Legal Services, including on its Executive Committee. She is also a member of the Labor and Employment Sections of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association. Ms. Reif received her J.D. degree from Stanford Law School.

"JEFFREY DAVIS AND LARRY STYBEL ON THE FAMILY COUNCIL AS AN ADJUNCT TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF FAMILY BUSINESSES."

Twenty-two Board members, private equity partners, and CEOs attended this program on improving the dynamics of family businesses. This program is 65 minutes and contains an mp3 audio plus a hand out of a Family Business Council used in a consulting project.



About Jeffrey S. Davis

Jeffrey S. Davis is the chairman and founder of Mage, LLC, a firm that provides business consulting and strategic advice to entrepreneurs and family businesses. For more than 30 years, Davis and his firm, have been instrumental to hundreds of entrepreneurs in attaining their business vision and objectives, positioning organizations for rapid growth, market leadership and financial success.

Jeffrey sits on several private and non-profit company boards, providing strategic and growth strategy. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board for the Jewish National Fund, on the National Executive Committee, and as Co-Founder of the Family Business Association.

He hosted two nationally syndicated business radio segments for The Business Radio Network and the Apple Canada Business Report; he currently hosts the web based business-magazine radio show Radio Entrepreneurs, which has connected to over 700,000 people in 26 counties.

Jeffrey has also served as a columnist for the Boston Business Journal on issues faced by small businesses and has written the book, THE 24 TURNAROUND based on six entrepreneurs, and how they succeeded during the last great economic crash.

He did his undergraduate work at Concordia University in Montreal, where he majored in psychology and minored in commerce. He pursued graduate studies in marketing and organizational development at the University of Ottawa. Davis has been an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the Babson graduate school and is a graduate of their SEE program for teaching entrepreneurship.

Jeffrey is the chairman and founder of Mage, LLC, MTP Software and Radio Entrepreneurs.



About Larry Stybel

Larry Stybel is a CEO, entrepreneur, and psychologist. As CEO, he co-founded Stybel Peabody Associates, Inc. in 1979. It was a Boston-centric firm. He transformed the company into Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire and was its President from 1998 until 2000. Larry helped grow Lincolnshire and then structured its integration into Arbora Global (www.arboraglobal.com).

Stybel Peabody, an Arbora Global company has 200 consultants in 25 U.S. cities and 28 countries. Clients include 21% of the one hundred companies named by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers" in the United States plus two of the Big Four CPA firms, 12 of Boston's largest 15 law firms, and 70% of the largest twenty Massachusetts health care delivery systems.

Core services include retained search for positions that "touch the Board:" Board members, CEOs, and CFOs. Other Board-focused work includes Board Self Evaluation, and the Board Options Coaching program to help position leaders for Board Work. The Executive Outplacement program focuses on helping senior level people network at Board levels for their next professional opportunities.

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY MAGAZINE publishes Stybel Peabody's "Platform for Success: the making of great leaders." There were 28,000 downloads over the last twelve months.

        http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/platform-success

Larry is frequently interviewed in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

Larry enjoys working as a Board member.

Current Board assignments include Zapoint, a venture backed SaaS used in enterprise-wide talent management systems and FitUS, a SaaS service for exercise facilities to allow members to identify accountability partners. He is on the Board of Zinoplex, a technology that objectively measures power to influence others.

Past Board assignments include the National Association of Corporate Directors' New England Chapter and Agon, a company that provides top tier private equity firms with interim leadership teams for troubled portfolio companies.

He was on the Advisory Board for Woosong University's Solbridge International School of Business based in Daejon, South Korea. He has taught management at the Dalian Institute of Technology in China.

He is listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA and WHO'S WHO IN BUSINESS & FINANCE.

Larry received his doctorate in organization behavior from Harvard University and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a licensed doctoral psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was named Career Management Fellow by the Institute for Career Certification International, the global nonprofit that certifies excellence in career management and leadership development. (www.careercertification.org).

Prior to starting Stybel Peabody, he worked with Fortune 500 companies in the area of executive compensation as a consultant for Hay Associates Management Consultants and wrote a column for JOURNAL OF COMPENSATION & BENEFITS.

"QUESTIONS BOARD MEMBERS SHOULD ASK ABOUT THE CEO'S "HANDLE" ON THE COMPETITION."



Moderator: Lawrence Siff, CEO, Neptune Advisors, Forbes Contributor, HBS Speaker and on the Board of six companies.

This 51 minute program was given at Stybel Peabody's Seat at the Table program. There were 15 Board members attending.

This program includes one MP3 audio file plus one pdf handout.

About Lawrence Siff:

As Chief Executive Officer of Neptune Advisors, Mr. Siff strategically grows middle market companies by sourcing and structuring mergers and acquisitions, leveraging company brands, and providing extensive operational and financial improvements in preparation for a sale.

Prior to founding Neptune Advisors, Mr. Siff was Principal and Managing Director of Gordon Brothers Group, a $50 billion investment and transaction advisory firm. At Gordon Brothers Group, Mr. Siff founded the consumer products and branding businesses, which grew to become two of the firm's largest divisions. As its Director of Strategic Acquisitions, he led acquisitions ranging from $5 million to $1.2 billion. Mr. Siff served on the Executive Committee and was an advisor to GBMP, an equity and debt fund.

He was the President and CEO of Babystripes, Inc., an online retailer of luxury baby gifts, and the President and CEO of Cherry Tree Products, Inc., a manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of high-end children's clothing. Mr. Siff was the President and CEO of Ambassador Shoe, B-W Footwear Inc. and B/W/A International, where he established operations at 38 factories in 9 countries and successfully sold the company to strategic acquirers.

Mr. Siff began his career at Procter and Gamble where he created the Wholesale Club Division which today accounts for over $3 billion in sales.

Mr. Siff currently serves on the Board of Directors of Kayem Foods, Inc. and Mason Companies, Inc., and is an Industry Advisor for Silverwood Partners, a boutique investment bank. He is a Trustee of the Museum of Science and a Director of the Asia-America Chamber of Commerce, the Two-Ten International Footwear Foundation, the Winsor School Corporation and is a member of the Chief Executives' Club of Boston. He is the past Chairman of the Board of Brimmer and May School and a past Director of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).

He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and the Executive Program at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck Business School.

Mr. Siff is a frequent lecturer at Harvard Business School and is a Contributor to Forbes and Forbes.com.

THE ROLE OF THE BOARD IN REVIEWING M&A ACTIONS.



Moderator: David G. Fubini

This is a 51 minute discussion between David Fubini and the Board members attending "Seat at the Table."

David G. Fubini completed a 34 year career at McKinsey & Company and remains an Emeritus Director acting as counsel to the Firm. During his McKinsey career, David was a long tenured, Managing Director of the Boston Office, a leader of the Firm's North American Organization Practice, as well as the founder and leader of the Firm's Global Merger Integration Practice. He was also a member of and co-chaired many of McKinsey's governance committees and forums. David led McKinsey's efforts in many large global transactions and has deep experience in a wide array of leadership and operational challenges that accompany major strategic transformations.

Examples of these transactions are:

Helped create one of the world's largest Pharmaceutical companies - the largest merger in the industry's history.

Led the effort in the largest corporate, vertical integration in the Global Beverage Industry.

Aided the consolidation of one of the world's largest aluminum companies with an equally prominent mining conglomerate.

Merger of a leading PC manufacturer with a global high tech entrepreneurial company based in the Far East.

Assisted the merger of two of the most prominent global consumer package goods companies.

Supported the reorganization of six sales and marketing divisions, as well as the creation of a new nameplate division, for one of the major U.S. based OEM automotive manufacturers.

Led the organization transformation of one of the world's largest media services company.

THE CEO HAS BEEN ACCUSED AND AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED. IT COMES DOWN TO 'HE SAID VERSUS SHE SAID.' WHAT IS THE BOARD TO DO?



Moderator: Brian J. MacDonough

This program was given to 15 Board members and takes 55 minutes if you listen to the entire talk.

We begin with the case of "Acme Corporation." Listen to the conversation and make your own judgment if you served on the Acme Board.

Brian MacDonough conducts the case discussion and then provides his legal perspective.

Brian J. MacDonough concentrates his practice in employment law and executive advocacy at Shilepsky O'Connell in Boston. He handles a wide range of matters, including discrimination, retaliation, whistle blowing, wage and hour issues, wrongful termination and contract negotiation and enforcement. Brian was selected by Thomson Reuters to be listed in Massachusetts Rising Stars in the field of labor and employment law for the years 2009 - 2012.

WILL COMPENSATION ALTER CEO ALIGNMENT WITH TRADERS OR INVESTORS? EVIDENCE ABOUT THE IMPACT OF STOCK AS A PERCENTAGE OF CEO COMPENSATION.

This 65 minute program begins with the case of a bank Board of Director Compensation Committee looking to examine its CEO pay program. The Board members attending Stybel Peabody "Seat at the Table" are members of the Committee.

After this discussion, we go into published research about the relationship between corporate performance and CEO pay.

This program includes the case used in the discussion.

MEET OUR MODERATORS



Arthur Warren

Arthur Warren is Principal and Owner of Arthur Warren Associates, a compensation advisory firm. He is an independent consultant to Bank and Credit Union Boards with an expertise on a wide range of compensation strategy and pay program design issues.

Arthur has over 30 years experience and currently advises more than 100 community banks in 13 states.

Art is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has authored numerous articles addressing effective Executive and Director Compensation design and strategy. He is a graduate of the Boston University College of Financial Planning. Art earned a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School and a B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of Hartford. He is a member of the American and Massachusetts Bar Associations. Mr. Warren is a frequent public speaker and has addressed both national and New England based organizations. Arthur Warren was voted the Gold Winner in the Banking Consulting category in both The Commercial Record Best of 2013 readers' poll and the Massachusetts Banker & Tradesman Best of 2008 readers' poll.




Abu Jalal

Abu Jalal is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Sawyer Business School in Suffolk University in Boston, MA. His areas of expertise include corporate finance, international finance, financial markets and institutions, and banking. He received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN and his Ph.D. in Finance from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. He has written and presented articles and opinions in numerous venues including the World Bank, National Bureau of Economic Research and a number of international conferences. Abu has published numerous original articles in academic journals including Economic Theory, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Developing Areas, Journal of Economics and Business, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

"OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT OF POWER/INDEPENDENCE: A TOOL FOR GOVERNANCE AND SALES." KATHY FOGEL, SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY SAWYER BUSINESS SCHOOL.



Moderator: Dr. Kathy Fogel

Dr. Fogel's area of expertise is behavioral finance. She received her B.A. in China at Nankai University and her Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is Associate Professor of Finance at Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School. She will discuss a new technology she has developed, the "Personal Power/Indepence Index." This is an objective way to measure how central an individual is within important networks.

MANAGING YOUR COMPENSATION CONSULTANTS: A COMPENSATION COMMITTEE GUIDE.

This 80 minute conversation with 10 Board members was conducted at Board Options' offices and is part of our Seat at the Table education program for Board members and senior business leaders.



Moderator: Matthew Stinner, Frederic W. Cook & Company

Frederick W. Cook & Company is an advisor to Board Compensation Committees, with specific expertise in incentive plan design and insight into external trends and developments. Since 1973, the company has served over 2,700 clients. Clients include companies on the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100, partnerships, ESOPs, and pre-IPO companies.

Matthew is a Managing Director and Head of the Boston Office of Frederic W. Cook & Company. He joined the firm in 2013, having previously been a Senior Managing Director at Pearl Meyer & Partners, a Principal at Mercer HR Consulting and a Partner at Arthur Andersen. He also previously held positions at Fidelity Investments. He holds a B.A. from Hamilton College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.

BOARD MEMBERS DISCUSS HOW TO IMPROVE BOARD COMMUNICATIONS.



Our Moderator, Tom Kennedy

About Our Moderator

Tom Kennedy is an Associated Press award-winning broadcaster, Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) He works with clients on strategic and crisis communication.

Tom brings to his practice over 20 years of on-air media experience in major markets across the US and over 15 years strategic communications consulting experience with CEOs and senior executives of international companies such as IBM, Iron Mountain, Millipore, Roche, Bosch, Hewlett-Packard, MIT and others.

Tom is a Board Member and Director of Communications for IMC USA, a Board Member of WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology), a regular speaker at the Harvard School of Public Health and numerous business groups, a former board member of The Society of Professional Consultants, a professional member of the National Speakers Association and a former adjunct professor in the Communications Studies Department at Emerson College.

"C SUITE INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE BOARD: A CASE STUDY." JONATHAN WOLFMAN AND KAREN GREEN, WILMER HALE.

This is another of our popular case discussions. The case is attached.

Moderators: Karen Green and Jonathan Wolfman.



Our Moderator, Karen Green

Karen Green is a partner in Wilmer Hale's Litigation/Controversy Department and a member of its Investigations and Criminal Litigation, False Claims Act and Life Sciences Practice Groups. She co-chaired Wilmer Hale's Litigation Department from 2004 to 2007, and chaired Hale and Dorr's Litigation Department from 2002 to 2004.

Ms. Green's practice concentrates on complex business litigation, including the defense of white-collar criminal and False Claims Act litigation. She has extensive experience representing companies in high-stakes government investigations and litigation of alleged fraud, bribery, conspiracy and violations of federal statutes, including the Anti-kickback Statute, the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Export Control Act and securities laws. At the request of corporate clients, she also has conducted numerous internal investigations of alleged wrongdoing and has advised their boards on compliance issues.

From 1993 to 1996, Ms. Green was the Deputy US Attorney for the federal District of Massachusetts. She supervised the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases and the litigation of civil cases on behalf of the United States. She also led the office's civil and criminal health care fraud enforcement program and served on the Department of Justice's National Health Care Fraud Working Group.

Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld appointed Ms. Green his chief of staff.

She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School.





Our Moderator, Jonathan Wolfman

Jonathan Wolfman co-chairs the Public Company Counseling Group for Wilmer Hale. Over the last 20 years, Mr. Wolfman has established a practice advising public companies on a wide range of disclosure, corporate governance and compensation issues.

He regularly advises public companies on understanding and addressing new SEC rules and other emerging issues. He has represented a variety of clients in M&A and capital markets transactions.

His clients come from industries such as computers, consumer products, telecommunications, biotechnology and retail.


Honors & Awards

Recognized in the 2013 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the field of corporate/M&A for Massachusetts.

Named a "New England Super Lawyer" (formerly "Massachusetts Super Lawyer") in the 2007-2013 issues of Boston Magazine.

Selected by peers for inclusion in the 2006-2014 editions of The Best Lawyers in America for his corporate governance practice.

BTI Client Service All-Star, 2014.

He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

AUDIT COMMITTEES CAN BETTER MANAGE THE CPA FIRM.

This is a one hour conversation between Tracy Curley and 15 invited Board members at Board Options' Seat at the Table program.



Our Moderator, Tracy Curley

About Our Moderator

Founded in 1982, Moody, Famiglietti & Andronico, LLP is a CPA firm with 100 professionals and 17 partners.

Tracy Curley is Lead Partner of MFA's Public Company Practice.

She has over twenty-five years of experience in public accounting and corporate finance. Industry experience includes manufacturing, retail, construction, oil and gas, technology, life sciences and professional services. She went to West Point Academy.

BORING! HOW TO OVERCOME BOARD IMPATIENCE WITH RISK MANAGEMENT AS A TOPIC. DAVID X. MARTIN. AUTHOR AND RISK MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT FOR OLIVER WYMAN.



Our Moderator, David X. Martin

ABOUT OUR MODERATOR

This 55 minute mp3 features David X. Martin and 15 selected Board members and senior executives at Stybel Peabody Seat at the Table discussing risk management at the Board level.

For this presentation, David brought in four cases. The cases are in the attachment below. Please download so you can be in on the case conversation.

Click here to download the presentation.

David X Martin is a veteran financial executive with Oliver Wyman whose career includes stints at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Citibank, and AllianceBernstein.

David was the founding Chairman of the Investment Company Institute's Risk Committee (ICIRC), and Co-Chair of the Buy Side Risk Committee, composed of the Chief Risk Officers of the twenty largest asset management firms. He is also an adjunct professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, and author of Risk and the Smart Investor, published by McGraw Hill in the fall of 2010 and author of The Nature of Risk, published by Amazon in 2012. He has also published numerous white papers on compliance and risk, enterprise risk management, corporate governance, and cyber security. David is also a member of the Sanctions Subcommittee of the US Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economy Policy.

White at AllianceBernstein he served both as Chief Risk officer and a Director of Sanford Bernstein LLC. He was responsible for the oversight of over $875B in assets, and was a member of the firm's committees on: valuation (Chair), ethics, internal controls, compliance, new product approvals (Chair), fraud, business continuity and information security. He has participated in innumerable industry conferences as a featured speaker and expert panel member, and has provided market commentary for Bloomberg Television.

David is a Certified Public Accountant, and received his Master's in Business Administration from New York University.

The mp3 begins with introductions of participants. To skip, move ahead four minutes.

Enjoy!

LISTEN UP: MOST CEO/FOUNDERS FAIL TO SURVIVE THE TRANSITION FROM BEING CEOS OF FOUNDER-DOMINATED BOARDS OF DIRECTORS TO BEING CEOS OF PRIVATE EQUITY DOMINATED BOARDS OF DIRECTORS. STYBEL PEABODY ASSOCIATES INTERVIEWED FIVE PAIRS OF SUCCESSFUL CEO/FOUNDERS AND PRIVATE EQUITY PARTNERS ON THEIR BOARDS. WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM THEIR SUCCESS? THIS MP3 PROGRAM FROM RADIO ENTREPRENEURS WILL BE OF VALUE TO ENTREPRENEURS, CEO, AND PRIVATE EQUITY PARTNERS.

BOARD MEMBERS ARE COVERED BY D&O INSURANCE? THE DELAWARE COURTS HAVE FOUND AN EXCEPTION A HOLE. HOW DO YOU PREVENT FALLING INTO IT?



Our Moderator, Mick Bain

This 74 minute Stybel Peabody/Board Options program is an informal discussion between Mick Bain and 16 Board members about how board members on private equity/venture capital portfolio company Boards might become vulnerable to legal actions and not be covered by D&O insurance. Mr. Bain discusses recent legal interpretations from Delaware Courts regarding law suits involving boards lacking valid external board members.

PE firms may wish to insure that at least two Board members truly have an independent perspective and are not perceived as captive voices of the private equity/venture capital firm.

Mick Bain is the partner-in-charge of the Waltham Office and is co-chair of Wilmer Hale's Emerging Company practice. He is also the co-chair of the WilmerHale Energy and Cleantech Group.

Mr. Bain counsels entrepreneurs and emerging companies throughout their lifecycle. He advises companies on formation and governance issues, equity and compensation matters, initial- through late-stage venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing and securities laws. Taking a practical business approach, Mr. Bain has helped his clients raise hundreds of millions of dollars in seed-stage and venture capital and has advised his clients through dozens of public offerings and acquisitions.

Mr. Bain counsels companies in a broad range of industries, including software, mobile and telecommunications, storage, fintech, semiconductors, network security, e-commerce, social media and web services, energy and clean tech, and life sciences. His current venture-backed clients include: 1366 Technologies,Blue Danube Labs, Boundless Learning, Casa Systems, Cloudant, Cloud Health, Cloze, CounterTack, FastCap Systems, Fiksu, Kemvi, Laser Light Engines, Lattice Engines, MC10, Mears Technologies, MineralTree, New Forma, Nexage, Reflexis, Retroficiency and Tego. He has worked extensively with some of the country's most high-profile investors and venture capital firms.

Energy and Cleantech Group. Mr. Bain is co-chair of WilmerHale's Energy and Cleantech Group. Companies in the energy and clean technology space that he has represented include: 1366 Technologies, A123, Advanced Transportation Technologies, BandGap Engineering, BioOils, CarbonFlow, Carbon Neutral, Great Bay Power, Houston Street, Khosla Ventures, Maglev Power and WebGen. Mr. Bain has served on the Innovation Task Force of the New England Clean Energy Council.

Honors & Awards

• Recognized for his private equity: venture capital investment practice in the 2011, 2012 and 2013 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business
• Named one of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of venture capital law (2009-2014) and corporate law (2010-2014)
• Named a "New England Super Lawyer" (formerly "Massachusetts Super Lawyer") in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012
• Named a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer Rising Star" in securities and venture finance in the May 2005 edition of Boston Magazine

ABU JALAL: WHEN BOARDS HIRE OUTSIDERS.



Abu Jalal

The Board's duty to hire CEOs is one of its most critical. Listen to Abu Jalal's examination about what happens when public companies select outside CEOs.

Inside CEO candidates are those within the company. There are two types of outsider candidates.

The first candidate is outside the company but still within the same industry. The second candidate is both outside the company and outside the industry.

What is the impact on share holder value three months and three years later?

We apologize for the poor quality of this 67 minute audio program. Stick with it!

Abu Jalal came to the United States from Bangladesh and is Associate Professor of Finance at Boston's Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Compensation Committee: Setting the Compensation for the CEO Part 1.

When you are finished reading the case, listen to the mp3 of how several board members would handle this case:

RICHSTONE WILSON COMPENSATION DISCUSSION.

For a copy of how the case actually turned out (no cheating!!) click the link below:

Compensation Committee: Setting the Compensation for the CEO Part 2.

STAGGERED BOARD ELECTIONS: IMPACT ON IPO SHAREHOLDER VALUE.



William C. Johnson

Good Governance Gurus oppose staggered Board elections. William C. Johnson has examined the evidence and made his report in this 43 minute talk.

William C. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University. He previously worked for Allegheny Teledyne and Tyco Electronics in engineering and sales positions. William holds a BS in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MBA from the University at Buffalo, and a PhD in Finance from Michigan State University. He is Research Associate at the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

BOARDS AND CORPORATE CULTURE.

It is the role of the Board to review and to approve corporate strategy. What about corporate culture?

Peter Drucker once said, "Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast." Southwestern Airlines founder Herb Kelleher called corporate culture the "glue" that keeps Southwestern Airlines ahead of its competition.

Corporate culture is difficult to create and almost impossible for competitors to copy. Culture takes 5-7 years to achieve.

Boards may have a 5-7 year time horizon. But CEOs who are not founders do not have this time horizon.

How should Boards address corporate culture?

Should Boards strive to be culture role models for their companies?

This is a 55 minute conversation between Larry Stybel and U.S. company Board members.

Topics to be covered include:

1. Role of corporate culture as a competitive weapon.
2. Recommended common language to discuss culture.
3. Recommended structure to compensate CEOs for culture.
4. Recommended common structure to compensate for "teamwork."

Moderator, Larry Stybel



Larry is Vice President of Board Options, a division of Stybel Peabody Associates, Inc. Board Options does global retained search for Boards of Directors. Stybel Peabody, an Arbora Global Company was founded in 1979. Its mission is global Leadership and Career Success. The websites are boardoptions.com and stybelpeabody.com. Clients include 21% of the one hundred companies named by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers" in the United States. There are 200 Arbora Global consultants in 26 countries. Larry is a licensed psychologist with an Ed.D. from Harvard University and an ICCI Board Certified Fellow in the area of Leadership & Career Management. PSYCHOLOGY TODAY MAGAZINE publishes his column, "Platform for Success." Larry is Executive-in-Residence (Rank of Professor) in the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship at Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School. Larry is on the Board of a venture backed company in the SaaS space and a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. His articles about corporate governance have appeared in MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW and CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MAGAZINE.

lstybel@stybelpeabody.com

www.boardoptions.com

www.stybelpeabody.com

LISTEN UP: JEFFREY DAVIS OF "RADIO ENTREPRENEURS" INTERVIEWS LARRY STYBEL ABOUT "CALM/ASSERTIVE" LEADERSHIP.

WHEN DOES THE BOARD "ADVISE/CONSENT" THE STRATEGIC PLAN VERSUS "OWN" THE PLAN?

Meet Our Moderators:

Lisa Haddad and Stuart Cable.

Lisa Haddad is a partner at the law firm Goodwin Procter with a specialization in corporate law. She is known for her work in governance and M&A. Ms. Haddad received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Stuart Cable is a partner at the law firm Goodwin Procter. He represents as outside general counsel public and private companies involved in technology, software, life sciences, professional and business services, alternative energy and financial services. Mr. Cable also represents private equity and venture sources investing in such companies and investment banks serving such industries. He served as chair of Goodwin Procter's Corporate Department (1991-1995), chair of the Hiring Committee (1987-1990), and a member of the Executive Committee (1996-1998) and the Allocations Committee (1995 2000). Mr. Cable currently chairs the firm's Incubator Initiative and leads the firm's initiative in expanding into Asia.

Mr. Cable serves as a member of the President's Leadership Council at Dartmouth College and as Chairman Emeritus of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. He also serves as a member of the Board of Fellows of the Harvard Medical School.

Mr. Cable frequently lectures in the fields of corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions at MIT's Sloan School of Management, the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and the Institute of Outstanding Directors. He has responsibility for directing Goodwin's annual Directors' Forum.

He received his J.D. at Columbia University Law School; M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and B.A. from Dartmouth College.

WHEN FAMILY DOMINATED COMPANIES MEET PRIVATE EQUITY. THOMAS J. SHIELDS, SHIELDS & COMPANY.



Thomas J. Shields

One of the options for family dominated companies to derive cash from successful businesses is to sell all or part to private equity firms. What are the tradeoffs?

Thomas J. Shields is a co-founder and managing director of Shields & Company, Inc., a national mid market investment banking and advisory firm established in 1991.

Shields & Company provides finance advisory services in the areas of: mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, capital raising, financial advisory assignments, and valuations/fairness opinions. The company specializes in the following industry verticals: business services, consumer products, retail companies, manufacturing, distribution, technology and healthcare.

Tom currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Clean Harbors, Inc., Ensign Bickford, Inc., The Gem Company, and Jones & Vining, Inc. He also serves on the Investment Committee of Boston Medical Center. Tom was previously on the Board of Directors of BJ's Wholesale Club and was chairman of Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. http://www.shieldsco.com/

He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

This program was delivered at Stybel Peabody/Board Options, Inc.'s Newton, Massachusetts office to a group of 15 Board members, CEOs, private equity partners, and Stybel Peabody alumni.

HOW BOARD MEMBERS CAN BE SKEPTICAL WITHOUT LAPSING INTO CYNICISM.



Do you assume trust until proven otherwise? If so, I have a pound of Goodwill I will sell to you at a 10% discount and will engrave with your name on it for free!

ABOUT MORRIS MCINNES

Morris was the 2011 recipient of the F. Gorham Brigham Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award for service to the financial industry, bestowed by the Boston Business Journal and the Financial Executives International of Boston.

He has held two distinguised careers.

Morris is Professor of Accounting, and formerly Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School. He was previously head of the Accounting Department at MIT Sloan School of Management.

His other career was as a Vice President of Finance for several companies. He has been a Director for several public companies.

Morris' undergraduate degree is in physics, from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and his masters and his doctorate degrees are from the Harvard Business School.

PREDICTIONS FOR THE ECONOMY, Q1 2013.

This is a talk given at the Chamber of Commerce in Massachusetts in December, 2012. Following the predictions there is a short talk on two techniques you can use in 2013 to be a leader who is "calm and assertive."

This talk is 33 minutes by mp3.

"MEASURING WHAT IS TRULY IMPORTANT FOR DIRECTORS: BALANCING THE NEED FOR INFORMATION IN A WORLD OF DATA OVERLOAD/SCARCE TIME."



Peat Miletic

Peat Miletic is a founder of FinMetrix, a firm with headquarters in Boston and clients around the world. His expertise is advanced performance measurement methods for leaders. Peat is an expert in apply lean manufacturing techniques to non-traditional settings like Boards of Directors. He has a B.Sc. in Engineering from University of Belgrade, M.Sc. in Satellite Remote Sensing from University of Bari, and an MBA from Northeastern University.

TRENDS IN ACHIEVING LEADERSHIP BENCH STRENGTH: an interview with "Emory Mulling."



Emory Mulling

Emory Mulling is the founder of our office in Atlanta and a columnist on leadership. He is a member of the Board of Governors of www.careercertification.org the global nonprofit that certifies excellence in leadership and career management. Emory is former President of Lincolnshire International and the author of a book on career management.

FINANCIAL EXECUTIVES INTERNATIONAL: "BEFORE YOU WALK IN THE INTERVIEW ROOM."

This is a talk given to approximately 40 chief financial officers and is 71 minutes long. Athletes know that the game is won or lost BEFORE stepping out on the playing field through the proper pre-game routine. Whether it is a job interview, meeting with investment analysts, or a difficult conversation with a boss what steps can you take to prepare before you walk in the door? This section has an mp3 Audio File plus a Power Point presentation.

The speaker is Larry Stybel.

Larry Stybel is co-founder of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, an Arbora Global Company. Since 1979 it provides companies with "smooth leadership change:" retained search limited to boards of directors, CEOs, and CFOS; improving leadership bench strength, and career management. Clients include 21% of the one hundred companies listed by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers" in the United States. There are 250 Arbora professionals in 25 U.S. cities and 24 countries. For more information, go to stybelpeabody.com and boardoptions.com

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SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: Brain Science and Leadership.

What are three recent studies by cognitive psychologists that could change your leadership effectiveness? This talk was given to an audience of 70 chief information officers and is 58 minutes long. You should fast forward through the silence since there is an period of the program when the audience was broken into groups and doing an exercise. This program contains an mp3 audio file plus Power Points that fit the audio presentation.

The speaker is Larry Stybel.

Larry Stybel is co-founder of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, an Arbora Global Company. Since 1979 it provides companies with "smooth leadership change:" retained search limited to boards of directors, CEOs, and CFOS; improving leadership bench strength, and career management. Clients include 21% of the one hundred companies listed by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers" in the United States. There are 250 Arbora professionals in 25 U.S. cities and 24 countries. For more information, go to stybelpeabody.com and boardoptions.com

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CREATING BOARD OPTIONS IN YOUR CAREER.

This program was presented to 40 executives from the United States and Germany by Larry Stybel of Boardoptions.com

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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF........

This is THE standard question in job interviews and cocktail parties. Larry Stybel of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire provides a way to structure an answer using the latest research in brain science. This program was presented to Temple Emmanuel in Andover, Massachusetts.

Click here for powerpoint presentation on "tell me about yourself"

When the Black Swan Waddles Into Your Board Room, What Should You Do?



Richard Nicolazzo

Richard E. Nicolazzo, Founder and Managing Partner of Nicolazzo & Associates, has extensive experience in strategic communications management and planning, merger and acquisition communications, issues management, litigation support, media relations and crisis communications. Clients include leading regional, national and international corporations and organizations.

He has appeared on broadcast business shows such as CNN's Money Line; he authors contributed articles and blogs to major print and online media, including The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, and O'Dwyer's, a leading public relations and marketing communications publication; and he has been a featured speaker at Nasdaq/Amex Executive Program Investor Relations Conferences. Richard is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America and PRSA's Counselors Academy.

HGSB consultants on boards.

"How Leopards Change Their Spots: incumbent CEOs who alter their board management style as the Board-CEO Power Changes---founder domination to private equity domination to public company board."

SCENARIO:

"Private equity dominated Board fires CEO" is the journalistic equivalent of "dog bites man."

But....

CEO remains in place from founder dominated board to private equity dominated board to public company board is the equivalent of "man bites dog."

Ted Bililies and Larry Stybel spoke before 18 Board members and senior executives for 55 minutes on the topic of how successful CEOs change their operating style with the Board over time.

What are the lessons these successful CEOs can teach CEOs, Board members, and private equity partners?

LARRY SIFF ON QUESTIONS BOARD MEMBERS SHOULD ASK CEOs ABOUT HOW THE CEO INTENDS TO BALANCE GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY.



LARRY SIFF.

"Post Acquisition Integration: lessons learned." Susan McCuaig.

In a previous Seat at the Table session, we discussed a trend in Boards to want to spend the necessary time to understand the consequences of an acquisition before the deal is consummated.

How many Boards spend the necessary time to review the consequences of the acquisition AFTER the deal is done?

According to one informal survey, one board in ten structures time to acquisition integration review.

And PWC research suggests that 70% of acquisitions fail to achieve the owner's original objectives.

Coincidence?

The failure of Boards to spend the necessary time to conducting systematic post acquisition integration review increases the probability of mistakes being repeated.

Join us as we continue this conversation with Susan McCuaig.

Susan McCuaig served as the Vice President, Human Resources for CIRCOR International, Inc., a global manufacturer of highly engineered products for the industrial, aerospace and energy markets from May 2005 to October 2011. Previous to that, from December 2003 until May 2005, Ms. McCuaig served as Assistant Vice President Human Resources for State Street Corporation, where she supported State Street's Wealth Managers Services and Securities Finance divisions. From February 2003 through December 2003, she was a human resources advisor to Radius Capital Partners, LLC, a buyout firm engaged in strategic mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications, technology and financial services industries. From November 2001 through February 2003, she served as Vice President of Human Resources for Color Kinetics Incorporated, a full spectrum digital lighting company. From February 2001 through November 2001, she was a partner in Website000 LLC, a business specializing in strategic and organizational development of start-up and emerging growth companies and, prior to that, served as Vice President of Human Resources and Investor Relations for Send.com, Vice President of The Stride Rite Corporation and the Vice President of Professional Development for MAST Industries, Inc a wholly owned division of The Limited, Inc. Ms. McCuaig has an MBA from Suffolk University and also serves on their Management Advisory Board.

This audio file is 55 minutes long.

HOW TO DEVELOP BOARD OPTIONS IN YOUR CAREER: a talk given to the South Florida Chapter of the Financial Executives International.

EVERYONE SAYS "I'M A TEAM PLAYER" DURING JOB INTERVIEWS. HOW CAN YOU FIND THE REAL MCCOY?



WILLIAM BACHMAN. Global Chief Operations Officer, Bingham McCutchin. This is one of the world's largest law firms and ranked six times in a row by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as one of the one hundred "Best Employers in the United States"


LARRY STYBEL: President and Co-Founder of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire (www.stybelpeabody.com), an Arbora Global Company. Since 1979, its mission has been to help companies successfully manage "smooth leadership change." Core services revolve around retained search for Board members, CEOs, and CFOs. It also provides confidential leadership consultation and career management services to leaders. There are 250 consultants in 25 U.S. cities and 31 countries. Clients include 21 of the one hundred companies named by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers in the United States." He also is Executive in Residence at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University.


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NEXT STAGE SOLUTIONS PRESENTS: Leadership Development and Succession Planning.

This mp3 is 122 minutes long and features the following panel:

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THE NEW ACTIVIST INVESTOR: A GUIDE FOR BOARD MEMBERS AND CEOs.



EDWARD TERINO

Edward Terino has served as a director of S1 Corporation (NASDAQ:SONE), a leading provider of integrated banking and payment solutions. Mr. Terino has served as a director of Baltic Trading Ltd. (NYSE:BALT), an international dry bulk shipping company. Mr. Terino is also a director of SeaChange International, Inc. (NASDAQ:SEAC), a leader in the delivery of multi-screen video.

Mr. Terino began his career at Deloitte & Touche and spent 9 years in their consulting services organization. Mr. Terino received his Masters in Business Administration from Suffolk University and a Bachelor of Sciences in Management from Northeastern University. He is on the Board of Advisors of the nonprofit Center for Innovation & Change Leadership (CICL), a national think tank for the study of how companies achieve shareholder value through innovation/collaboration.

GLOVES OFF: HOW TO KILL YOUR COMPETITION

Fast forward through the first six minutes of this 70 minute presentation given to members of the Financial Executives International in Boston.

Key concepts: (1) there are three underlying reasons why previous models for seizing opportunities do not work in today's job market and will continue to fail (2) how to engage in Dunkin Donuts Research (3) key web based resources executives can use to kill their competition and (4) the "Killer Close" to seal the deal.

Larry Stybel is President/Co-founder of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, an Arbora Global Company. There are 250 Arbora professionals in 25 U.S. cities and 31 countries. Its mission is to help companies manage smooth leadership change: retained search limited to Board members, CEOs and CFOs; helping high potential leaders and helping senior executives manage aggressive job search campaigns. Larry is a contributor on leadership and career management to both HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW and PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. He also is Executive in Residence at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University in Boston. Larry received his doctorate in organization behavior at Harvard University and is a licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is one of 122 career management professionals from 21 countries to be awarded by his peers the title "Career Management Fellow." This designation is awarded by the Institute for Career Certification International.

For more information go to www.stybelpeabody.com.

Larry can be reached at Lstybel@stybelpeabody.com and would love your comments on this talk.

GEORGE NEBLE, CPA OF ERNST & YOUNG ON MANAGING THE TRIANGLE OF THE BOARD, THE AUDIT COMMITTEE, AND THE CPA FIRM.

George Neble is a Partner with Ernst & Young with over 30 years experience in serving multinational companies. He has unique expertise in assisting with multiple M&A transactions, and IPOs. Clients include Stream Global Services, Acme Packet, EnerNOC, Phase Forward, ATG, Glasshouse Technologies, Powerspan, and Skillsoft. He is a member of the Board of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Boston College Carroll Graduate School of Management. He received his B.S. from Boston College.

This talk was given to a group of Board members. It is 80 minutes long.

WATCH THIS: LARRY STYBEL ON HOW SENIOR MANAGERS CAN FRAME DISCUSSIONS WITH THEIR CEOs FROM A BOARD PERSPECTIVE

3: LEADERSHIP BY THE NUMBER

There are three parts to this 45 minute talk: (1) why the number 3 is potent based on research into the limits of human cognition (2) three questions leaders might consider asking before taking on new assignments and (3) three questions to ask to "close the sale" on products, services, or ideas.

Part of this talk is based on Larry Stybel's HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW article on the subject.

The talk is based on an "Ideas to Action" workshop given to executives from the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland.

The presenter is Larry Stybel. He is Executive in Residence at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University and President of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire. Founded in 1979, Stybel Peabody helps companies manage "smooth leadership change" with 250 professionals in 31 countries. Clients include 21 of the one hundred companies named by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers" in the United States. He is on the Board of Governors of the Institute for Career Certification International and one of 122 professionals from 22 countries to be elected an Institute Fellow. (www.careercertification.org).

TO LISTEN TO THE TALK, CLICK HERE.

TRENDS IN VENTURE CAPITAL AND ANGEL INVESTING.



RICHARD LUCASH

Richard Lucash is both a legal advisor to growing companies and an investor.

He is special counsel for McCarther & English, LLC's Corporate, Securities and Financial Institutions Practice Group. Richard's legal practice focuses on financing, technology transfer and intellectual property.

Richard's investment experience includes founding LaunchPad Venture Group, recognized as one of the top angel organizations in Boston. He serves on its Board. There are nearly one hundred LaunchPad members.

Mr. Lucash has a B.S. in Physics from MIT and a J.D. from the Cornell Law School.

The talk is 58 minutes.

THREE QUESTIONS TO ASK TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR CAREER: MURRAY'S LAW OF SUCCESS.

LISA STEPHANIAN BURTON OF WILMER HALE ON RISK FACTORS FACED BY MEMBERS OF BOARDS OF DIRECTORS.



LISA STEPHANIAN BURTON

Lisa Stephanian Burton is a partner in WilmerHale's Labor and Employment Practice Group and chair of the Immigration Group.

Ms. Burton counsels clients on a variety of labor and employment issues, including the labor and employment implications of mergers and acquisitions. She enjoys speaking on hot topics in labor and employment. Most recently, Ms. Burton presented on "Monitoring and Restricting Employees' Use of the Internet, Social Networking and Blogging" at WilmerHale's Annual Employment Law Update.

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR GAME IN NETWORKING.

Part 1 and Part 2

FOR SENIOR LEVEL PROFESSIONALS ONLY: THE NEW ABCs OF NETWORKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES.

Whether you are an executive seeking new employment, new consulting assignments, or new sales you might find this talk of value. It was given at the Senior HR Networking Group of Boston and is 118 minutes long.

The speaker is Larry Stybel.

Larry is co-founder of stybelpeabody.com and boardoptions.com. He has a doctorate in organization behavior from Harvard University, is a licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of 240 career management specialists from 21 countries to be named Fellow, Institute for Career Coaching International. His articles on leadership, careers, and corporate governance appear in CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, and MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW.

FINANCIAL EXECUTIVES INTERNATIONAL TALK ON 'IMPROVING YOUR GAME' IN NETWORKING:

Founded in 1936, Financial Executives International is the professional association for senior corporate finance leaders. This 115 minute talk was given to 45 FEI members and guests.

Larry Stybel of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire says these are different existential positions leaders have about networking. Those leaders who engage in networking should focus on getting an accountability buddy, stop talking about themselves, focus on networking to the third level of the network chain, and read HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE. Those leaders who are networkers should focus on achieving a public image of being network nodes to powerful people. And these powerful people owe them favors.

Stybel says that there are only three ways to insure you outlive your wealth. Being a networker is more fun and less risky than the other two ways.

Larry Stybel is President of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, an Arbora Global Company. Founded in 1979, the company works with the world's best companies in helping to manage smooth leadership change. Clients include 21% of the FORTUNE MAGAZINE one hundred companies named Best Employers in the United States. Core leadership change services include Retained Search+, high potential leadership work, and Executive retained search. There are 250 Arbora consultants in 31 countries.

Larry received his doctorate in organization behavior from Harvard University and is a licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is one of 240 Career Management Fellows of the Institute of Career Coaching International. Fellows are nominated by professional peers. And the body of their work is reviewed by a Board of Governors. In 2011, Larry was elected by his peers to become a Governor of the Institute. (www.careercertification.org).

THREE STORIES FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE SECTOR LEADERS:

1. THE INSTIVIDUAL MARKET: IS YOUR BUSINESS COMPETING EFFECTIVELY?
2. HOW YOU CAN WIN IN A WORLD WHERE RISK MANAGEMENT IS A BOARD OBSESSION WHILE COST CONTAINMENT IS AN OPERATING MANAGEMENT OBSESSION?
3. HOW WE DEALT (BADLY) WITH THE EMOTIONS OF EXHILARATION/FEAR WHEN FOUNDING STYBEL PEABODY IN 1979.

HOW LEADERS CAN MOVE THE CONVERSATION FROM IMPORTANT/NOT URGENT TO IMPORTANT/URGENT.

This 32 minute speech was given to a global association of health club owners/managers is part of the Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire "Productive Conversations" series.

In the health club industry, new membership acquisition is less than existing membership departures. Larry Stybel argues that exercise is one of life's important/not urgent issues. What are some practical techniques owners can use to position the value proposition so that the perception of urgency and importance exists?

Larry Stybel is President/CEO of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, an Arbora Global Company. Founded in 1979, there are 250 consultants in 31 countries. Its mission is to help companies manage "smooth leadership change when the stakes are high." (sp) Clients include 21 of FORTUNE MAGAZINE'S "The Top One Hundred Companies to Work For." Larry is also Executive in Residence at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University in Boston.

As a Board Member, When is a Deal Not a Deal? Your Company Announced a Deal and an Interloper Comes Knocking: the Case of Data Domain and EMC? Stuart Cable, Goodwin Procter.

This 73 minute program was taped before an audience of Board members and CEOs. He discusses a case of a public company agreeing to be acquired by a second tier player in its industry and not getting bids from the largest player in the industry.



ATTORNEY STUART CABLE

Stuart Cable represents as outside general counsel public and private companies involved in technology, software, life sciences, professional and business services, alternative energy and financial services. Mr. Cable also represents private equity and venture sources investing in such companies and investment banks serving such industries. He served as chair of Goodwin Procter's Corporate Department (1991-1995), chair of the Hiring Committee (1987-1990), and a member of the Executive Committee (1996-1998) and the Allocations Committee (1995 2000). Mr. Cable currently chairs the firm's Incubator Initiative and leads the firm's initiative in expanding into Asia.

Mr. Cable serves as a member of the President's Leadership Council at Dartmouth College and as Chairman Emeritus of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. He also serves as a member of the Board of Fellows of the Harvard Medical School.

Mr. Cable frequently lectures in the fields of corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions at MIT's Sloan School of Management, the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and the Institute of Outstanding Directors. He has responsibility for directing Goodwin's annual Directors' Forum.

BOSTON BUSINESS ALLIANCE TALK: HOW SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES PIVOT DURING TIMES OF TURBULENCE.

HOW TO MANAGE THE "PIVOTS" IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE.

This is a 33 minute program that was a keynote address to the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Psychological Association.

It was given by Larry Stybel.

Larry is co-founder of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, an Arbora Global Company. Founded in 1979, the firm's mission is helping institutions and companies achieve "smooth leadership change:" Retained Search+, development of high potential leaders, and Executive retained search. There are 250 Arbora professionals in 31 countries. Clients include 21 of the one hundred companies named Best Employers by FORTUNE MAGAZINE.

Larry is a contributor to HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ON MANAGING CAREERS IN TOUGH TIIMES (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010) and writes a blog on leadership/career management for HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW. His articles on leadership have appeared in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, and CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW. He is frequently quoted on leadership and career management issues in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and is an international keynote speaker. Larry also is Executive in Residence at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University and Producer of "Inside Leadership," a national media program that honors "self made leaders." He is on the Board of a venture backed SaaS company and a University in South Korea.

He received his doctorate from Harvard University and is a licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Larry can be reached at Lstybel@stybelpeabody.com

His websites are www.stybelpeabody.com and www.boardoptions.com

MANAGING THE AUDIT COMMITTEE-CPA-CEO/CFO RELATIONSHIP.

This is a 50 minute audio of Scott Levy moderating a discussion with Board members.



Scott Levy is Managing Partner of Grant Thornton's Boston office. In this role, Scott is responsible for ensuring the quality of service for clients of the firm's audit, tax, and advisory practices.

He has more than twenty years of experience advising clients on business and accounting issues. In addition, he has assisted companies to raise capital in both the public and private markets. Scott's industry experience includes software, manufacturing, and retail. Current and past clients include Cognex Corporation, Nathan's Famous, Tumi Luggage, and Einstein Bagels. Prior to joining the Boston office, Scott served Grant Thornton as Assistant Managing Partner of the New York Cluster. He was ranked by CRAIN'S NEW YORK BUSINESS as one of the "Forty Under Forty." Scott serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs and Junior Achievement. He received a B.S. in Accounting from the State University of New York, Albany.

NEW RULES FOR A NEW ECONOMY: THE EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEW.

This is a talk presented by the Boston Chapter of the Financial Executives International (www.feiboston.org) on October 13, 2010. It is 80 minutes long.

Topics include: (1) developing your personal Leading Indicator of Change for your career (2) review of outcome literature on the predictive validity of employment interviews (3) options for structuring realistic job previews to improve the predictive validity (4) Chris Argyris' Theory of Action Perspective and its implication for improving the predictive validity of employment interviews (5) How Warren Buffett uses self disparagement as a technique to rapidly bond with people (6) Dealing with issues of Age, Salary, Disability, and Job Title, and (7) Using Circadian Rhythm to your advantage and (8) the Killer Close.

This program is designed for all participants iin the employment interview----employers seeking talent as well as job candidates.

Larry Stybel is President of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, an Arbora Global Company and Executive in Residence at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University in Boston. Founded in 1979, the firm's mission is helping client companies achieve "Smooth Leadership Change:" Retained Search+ limited to Board, CEO, and CFO roles; coaching of high potential leaders, and Executive retained search. There are 250 Arbora professionals in 31 countries. Clients include 21% of the one hundred companies named by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers in the United States."

Larry writes a blog on leadership and career management for HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW and is frequently published in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW and MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW. He is a contributor to HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ON MANAGING YOUR CAREER IN TURBULENT TIMES (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010) and J. G. McLellan (ed.) PRACTICAL CASE STUDIES FOR COMPANY DIRECTORS. (Charleston, SC: Directors Dilemma, 2010). Articles by or about him have appeared in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ABC NEWS, BUSINESS WEEK, CNN, CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW, DIRECTORSHIP, FORBES, FORTUNE, and THE NEW YORK TIMES. He received his doctorate in organization behavior from Harvard University and is a licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Prior to Stybel Peabody, he was an executive compensation consultant for Hay Associates Management Consultants. Larry serves on the Boards of Zapoint and the Center for Innovation & Change Leadership. He is on the Advisory Board for Solbridge University in Korea and has given talks on leadership in the People's Republic of China and Australia.

To contact Larry Stybel:



Lstybel@stybelpeabody.com
www.stybelpeabody.com
www.boardoptions.com

A PERSPECTIVE ON RISK MANAGEMENT FOR BOARD MEMBERS WHO LOVE TO FOCUS ON ASSET ENHANCEMENT AND FIND RISK MANAGEMENT BORING/FRIGHTENING.

Michael Carpenter advises Boards on risk. Much of his work has been in the financial services sector. Companies he has worked with include John Hancock Funds, Transamerica/IDEX, MFS Retirement Services, and Rydex Global Advisors.

His articles on risk and investment have appeared in Investment News, The NAPFA Advisor, Transitions magazine, and most recently The Journal of Financial Planning.

His approach to risk management is to help board members understand risk issues in non technical, user-friendly ways.

Michael is author of The "Risk-Wise" Investor- How to better Understand and Manage Risk (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2009). His website is www.RiskWiseInvestor.com

"How to Get Great Non-U.S. Talent to Join Boards of U.S. Companies." Fred Foulkes. Boston University School of Management and the Human Resources Policy Institute.

This program is 61 minutes long.

LEADING SIMPLY WITHOUT BEING A SIMPLETON.

This is a 34 minute presentation to a conference of university alumni. The focus is on a simple framework using elements of the Basic Accounting Equation and how it can help make better board selection, team staffing, and management development recommendations.

The powerpoints used in this talk can be obtained by contacting lstybel@stybelpeabody.com

The speaker is Larry Stybel.

For more information about Larry, go to www.linkedin.com/in/lstybel

LES CHARM AND LARRY STYBEL ON BOARDS OF DIRECTORS, a program sponsored by the Exit Planning Exchange.

LES CHARM has been a partner in the firm of Youngman & Charm since 1972. The firm specializes in directorship functions for firms owned and operated by entrepreneurs and in assisting companies that are experiencing operating and/or financial problems. Youngman & Charm has operated in a variety of industries, channels of distribution, and has been involved in many successful financings and acquisitions and mergers.

From 1977 through 1990, Les was chairman and president of a major distributor and specialty retail chain. He has been active in other specialty marketing companies, and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Franchise Association. He was a director of the National Association of Corporate Directors-New England. He currently is on the board of several firms where he generally sits as the lead director.

Les is Executive in Residence at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Professor Charm has taught throughout the world on a variety of topics regarding entrepreneurship and governance. He is on the President's Council at Babson, and is the recipient of the Appel Award for Entrepreneurship.

Les can be reached at charm@babson.edu



LARRY STYBEL is Vice President of Board Options, Inc. and co-founder of Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire, an Arbora Global Company.

Board Options, Inc. provides resources to nominating and governance committees in the field of talent management at the Board level: retained search for board members and board self-evaluation programs using National Association of Corporate Directors standards. Boardoptions.com is ranked by Google as the #1 website for Board Talent.

Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire was founded in 1979 with a focus on helping companies manage "smooth leadership change when the stakes are high." Core services revolve around Board search, leadership development with high potential executives, and executive level career consultation. Clients include 21 of the 100 companies named by FORTUNE MAGAZINE as "Best Employers." The website is stybelpeabody.com.

He also is Executive in Residence at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University in Boston.

Larry writes a blog on leadership and career management for HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW and is contributor to HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ON CAREER MANAGEMENT IN TURBULENT TIMES. (Boston: Harvard Business Review, 2009). He is also contributor to J. G. McLellan (ed.) PRACTICAL CASE STUDIES FOR COMPANY DIRECTORS. (Charleston, SC: Directors Dilemma, 2010).

His work on leadership, governance, and career management has appeared in CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW, DIRECTORSHIP, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, and MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW. He is a keynote speaker at trade associations/conventions around the world.

Larry received his doctorate in organization behavior at Harvard University and is certified as a leadership coach by Korn/Ferry International and Lore International. Larry is a licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Larry is listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA and WHO'S WHO IN BUSINESS & FINANCE.

At Suffolk University, Larry is producer and host of the national show, "Inside Leadership." This is a series of in-depth interviews with "self made" men and women. Programs are taped in front of a college student audience.

He is on the Board of the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership and Zapoint, a venture backed technology company in the talent management space. Previous Board experiences include COMPENSATION & BENEFITS MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter, CS Technologies, and the National Human Resource Association.

Larry can be reached at lstybel@boardoptions.com

OVERVIEW OF THE RETAINED SEARCH INDUSTRY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. PLUS THE ROLE OF RETAINED SEARCH IN FINDING BOARD OF DIRECTOR TALENT.

David is Founder of Executive Search Information Services. Its mission is helping companies improve executive recruiting effectiveness, including managing search activity and selecting and engaging search firms.
He also is facilitator of the Executive Search Information Exchange, a network of executive talent officers from 50 leading corporations, sharing information on best practices in executive recruiting worldwide. David's clients include more than 100 of the Fortune 500.

When it's time for the board to convey negative news to the CEO, a Board Options, Inc. Interview with Barry Greiff, M.D.

Society of association executives: larry stybel on "aligning the stars of your board." A well diversified board has one or two bright stars, many stars to do the heavy lifting, rising stars, and setting stars. Setting stars can be of great value on your board if they are given the right assignments. How do you identify and screen out shooting stars? They can be deadly for ceos! Download this free mp3. 90 minutes.

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN NEGOTIATION OF EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS.

CGQ AS A CAREER AND INVESTMENT CANARY IN THE COAL MINE: a review of the Corporate Governance Quotient Version 3 and its distribution channels. The talk also includes a discussion of the Stybel Peabody HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW piece on "Managing Your Career in Three Dimensions." There is also a discussion about techniques for dealing with age-related issues during job interviews. This talk was given at the Boston Chapter of the Financial Executives International on March 10, 2010. 56 minutes.

Management will be in the middle in the coming war for talent AND the war between talent. Larry stybel of stybel peabody lincolnshire gave this webinar to pharmacy leaders sponsored by pharmacy one.

"Seizing opportunities in 3-d." This talk was given by larry stybel of stybel peabody for the members of the financial executives international of boston.

How to diagnose grumpy cultures, grumpy-oriented organizational structures, and grumpy job candidates. Larry stybel of stybel peabody lincolnshire gave a speech to the assabet valley chamber of commerce.

What Boards and Owners Should Know About Trends in Private Equity Financing. Bruce Macrae. Hastings Equity Partners. 55 Minutes.

Bruce MacRae. Bruce is a partner at Hastings Equity Partners. Prior to joining Hastings Equity Partners, Bruce co-founded Parthenon Capital where he led numerous investments in the business services, distribution, manufacturing, and publishing sectors. Before Parthenon, Bruce was the CEO/Director of Flow Control Equipment, Inc., an oil field & gas pipeline equipment manufacturer located in Houston, Texas. While leading Flow Control, Bruce was responsible for developing and executing a strategic plan that involved M&A, an expansion of international distribution, and a reduction of manufacturing costs - all of which led to a 50% growth in revenues and nearly 4x increase of earnings in less than two years. Bruce holds a BSME with honors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a MSIE from Purdue University. In addition, he received his M.B.A. with distinction from the University of Michigan. The website is hastingsequity.com. Hastings Equity invests in manufacturing , distribution, or service companies with $8 million+ in sales. Hastings Investors represent the personal capital and talent of 40 business executives, many of whom have either led Fortune 500 companies or large private equity firms.