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Northwestern University's Querrey InQbation Lab is featuring the Q Founder Series, focused on key topics that early-stage startups face.

Working with Boards of Directors: Why ‘Friends of Friends’ are Better Than ‘Friends & Family’ & Other Board Mysteries.

At their best, boards of directors are a valued asset in helping businesses grow and succeed. At their worst, boards are a necessary evil. Many boards are somewhere in between. Beginning with talent mapping, this seminar by Adam Goodman from Northwesern's Center for Leadership helps you take a design approach to building and maintaining a board you look forward to working with.

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Adam Goodman is an award-winning educator, researcher, and trusted advisor to leaders of companies, non-profit groups and other organizations. He directs Northwestern University’s Center for Leadership and is a Clinical Professor in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.  The Center works with faculty and students across Northwestern’s schools and colleges, especially the Feinberg School of Medicine, the Kellogg School of Management, and McCormick.  An active consultant today and for over 30 years, he has advised over 200 CEOs, senior officers, executive teams and boards of directors globally and given hundreds of invited speeches and workshops around the world.