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#How2Tuesday: How 2 Build a Personal Board of Advisors

The Blank Center’s #How2Tuesday series continues on Tuesday, March 7 at 5pm in the Blank Center Televideo Room! How 2 Build a Personal Board of Advisors with Sarah Hodges MBA’10 of Pillar VC!

Leading a company can be a lonely gig. The key to success is surrounding yourself with a community of supporters to provide insight and guidance as you chart your course. During this talk, Sarah Hodges will share a framework for how to build a personal board of advisors, exploring the roles of mentors, sponsors and coaches.

About Sarah Hodges

Sarah Hodges

Sarah Hodges has spent the last decade as an entrepreneur and operator in high-growth consumer and enterprise companies. At Pillar, Sarah leverages her operating experience to bring leadership insight, capabilities and resources to our firm’s portfolio companies. Prior to Pillar, Sarah was a member of the executive team at Pluralsight, the world’s largest online learning community for IT, dev and creative training, where she helped the company double in size in less than one year. Before joining the company, Sarah was a member of the executive team at Smarterer (sold to Pluralsight), where she oversaw business strategy, operations and marketing.

In 2012, Sarah co-founded Intelligent.ly, a leadership development company that has transformed over 1,000 emerging leaders across 50 high-growth companies, and continues to serve the Boston community.

Sarah has held additional leadership roles in early-stage startups including RunKeeper (sold to Asics) and Carbonite (CARB). She has also served as a board member at BUILD and an advisor to Flybridge Capital.

See you on Tuesday, March 7 at 5pm in the Blank Center Televideo Room!

What are #How2Tuesdays?:
Want to learn something really practical to get your startup moving in the right direction? #How2Tuesdays are short, workshop style sessions meant to bring you very specific, user friendly instruction on some of the most important things you need to know how to do for your venture. Every Tuesday at 5pm in the Blank Center!