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Lessons from a Pioneer: Building Influence Outside and Inside the Boardroom
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What was it like to be the first female consultant? How about leading and chairing over fifteen corporate and nonprofit boards including, Verizon Communications, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Boston? Join SWIM to hear from an incredible and strong pioneer, Sandy Moose, who broke gender barriers, mentored CEOs, and built organizations from the ground up. At BCG she led the New York office, served as chair of the East Coast region, and founded BCG's Global Women's Initiative. We'll cover three topics (and many more):
(1) How to succeed in consulting, especially around adapting to different CEO client styles
(2) Building influence through corporate and nonprofit boards
(3) Being the first and challenging the status quo
Through Sandy's pioneering example, she made it clear that women could not only hold their own, but be strong leaders within BCG and with the highest-level executives at client companies and beyond.
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Martin Trust Center, The Garage
100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
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Sandy Moose
Senior Advisor
The Boston Consulting Group
Sandy Moose is a Senior Advisor of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She joined the firm in 1968 and was a director (officer) since 1975 and a Senior Partner and Managing Director since 1989 until her retirement in December 2003. Over the course of her career at BCG, she held numerous leadership roles within the firm. She led the New York office from 1988-1998 and served as chair of the East Coast region from 1994 to 1998. She also chaired or served on several firm-wide committees, including the Executive Committee, the Officer Compensation Committee, and the Audit Committee. In addition, she is credited with founding and later leading BCG's global Women's Initiative.
Dr. Moose has consulted to CEOs and top management teams in a broad range of industries ÔÇô particularly financial services, telephony, and consumer goods ÔÇô advising them on an array of strategic, organizational and financial issues. She was a principal founder of the firm's Financial Services practice and a key contributor in the development of BCGÔÇÖs early management concepts.
She is currently President of her own firm, Strategic Advisory Services, and serves on a number of boards. She is Chairman of Natixis Adviser Funds and Loomis Sayles Funds and recently retired as Presiding Director of Verizon and Director of AES Corp. She is Chairman of the Board of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic grant-making institution and the immediate past President of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Other charitable organizations where she is a Trustee or Overseer include the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Huntington Theatre Company.
An active participant in women's organizations, she also is a member of the Committee of 200, a nationwide organization of women business leaders, and the International WomenÔÇÖs Forum, which advances womenÔÇÖs leadership across careers, cultures and continents.
Previously, she was a trustee of Hampshire College (1976-83) and Wheaton College (1981-91), Chair of the Council of the Harvard
Graduate Society (2005-09), and lead director of Rohm and Haas (1999-2009), when the company was sold to Dow Chemical.
In 1999, Dr. Moose received the American Economic AssociationÔÇÖs Carolyn Shaw Bell award, presented annually to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession. For her contributions on boards, she was given the Outstanding Corporate Director of the Year Award in 2004 from the Outstanding Directors Exchange (ODX) and the Leadership in Public Corporate Governance Award in 2008 from the National Association of Corporate Directors' New England Chapter. Dr. Moose was also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Consulting Magazine in 2010.
Prior to joining BCG, she worked with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and as a member of the faculty of Harvard University.
Dr. Moose received her PhD and MA in economics from Harvard University and her BA in economics summa cum laude from Wheaton College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. She also studied at the University of Vienna. She received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Wheaton College in 2009 and was elected a trustee emerita.