Events for CEOs

Newport Board Group's, Laura Bingham, will be participating in an invitation-only event for National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), March 18, in New York. This program will be a highly-interactive, half-day symposium of NACD Directorship 2020™. This is a multi-year initiative designed to help directors and boards understand, define and prepare for emerging issues, coming challenges and opportunities that will affect the boardroom in the next decade. Laura earned NACD’s Director Professionalism in 2012 and then its Governance Fellow designation in 2013. In her role with Newport and in various business and civic groups she continues to assist in educating on these topics.

Carolina's Partner, John Farrall, will be facilitating a Sales Roundtable - “How to Make Your Customers Stick to You like Glue!” sponsored by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce in Greenville, S.C. on March 19th. These monthly forums are designed to share experiences, develop best practices and fortify skills to improve productivity. Sales professionals and local businessmen regularly participate in this event. Newport Board Group is a unique national business advisory firm that works with middle market companies making the transition across No Man’s Land (where a company is too big to be small but too small to be big) to get to their next level of growth.

Carolinas’ Partner Laura Bingham will facilitate a discussion, January 22, in Raleigh on Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In, a #1 national best seller. Sandberg, COO of Facebook, uses personal anecdotes and research findings to make her case that “our revolution has stalled,” offering advice on how women can achieve their full potential. A TEDTalk in 2010 sparked the debate around Sandberg’s call for women to ‘lean in’ and ‘get rid of’ internal barriers which can work against success. In Lean In she asserts that there is a “leadership ambition gap” among women in the workplace that must be closed for power structures to change.