“STYBEL PEABODY/BOARD OPTIONS, INC. SEAT AT THE TABLE”

MISSION: Education for Board members and leaders whose roles touch the Board by providing discussions with expert moderators. We offer an intimate, small group environment conducive to the sharing of perspectives. Attendance limited to twenty.

TIME: 4:30-6:00PM

LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.

Location for all meetings, unless otherwise noted:

BAY COLONY CORPORATE CENTER

1100 Winter Street

Waltham, MA 02451

Tel. 617 594 7627

Exit 27B off Route 128 (The Winter Street Exit on Winter Wyman). You will find yourself on the South Bound side of Route 128. The Doubletree Hotel is on your left. Curve around to the right as the road passes the Astra Zeneca HQ sign. Stybel Peabody is in the Bay Colony Corporate Center on the left. Bay Colony is the third left after the Astra Zeneca HQ sign and immediately AFTER the Waltham Woods complex. Turn left at Bay Colony Corporate Center. Drive up the hill. Turn right at the second office building. There are three entrance doors. Use the middle one. You will walk in on the third floor. Take the elevator (look to your left) and go to the first floor. Look for the Stybel Peabody signs behind the elevator. Look to your left.

If you would like to attend any of the following Seat at the Table programs, please email lstybel@stybelpeabody.com. For more information about us, go to stybelpeabody.com or boardoptions.com.

2008-2009

May 19 "Best Practices in Evaluating the Effectiveness of the HR Function." Steve Sheehan. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

June 30 "You Can Hate It or Love It, But You Can’t Ignore It: What Board Members Need to Know About Ver 3.0 of the Institutional Investors Services' Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ)." Larry Stybel, Board Options, Inc.

July 28 "Deciding Who Leads: What Boards and CEOs Need To Know About How Executive Recruiters Influence The Search for Leadership Talent." Joseph McCool.

August 25 "Questions to Ask When Contemplating Joining the Board of a Family-dominated business." Douglas Baumoel, Continuity Family Business Consulting & Harvey Wigder, Fulcrum Resources.

September 22 "Work Less and Do More:" two decades of research on the sociology of productivity. Jan Yager.

October 27 "What Health Care Can Teach Other Industries About Attracting/Retaining/Motivating Hard to Get Talent." Inez Stewart, Children's Hospital of Boston; Ann Lang. Winchester Hospital.

Nov 17 "What Board Members Need to Know to Succeed With Alliances." Ben Gomes-Casseres, Brandeis International Business School and author of "Mastering Alliance Strategy."

Feb 23 "Using the War Game Technique to break logjams at the Board level or to speed executive decision making." Leonard Fuld, author of "The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence" and President of Fuld & Company, a nationally known business competitive intelligence firm.

March 30 "An Appraiser and Investor Perspective About Questions Board Members and Investors Ought to be Asking to understand how the money is made." Larry Siff. Gordon Brothers.

April 27 "Role of the Board When the Partners Divorce." Barry Weiner. Ruberto, Israel Weiner.

May 25 "How the Best Private Equity Groups Source and Screen Talent for Portfolio Companies." Ted Bililies. GS Smart.