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Beverly Behan began working with Boards of Directors in 1996 with Mercer Consulting in Canada. Her first major client was the board of a large Canadian bank, which received numerous awards and recognition for her work with them. In 2000, Bev was transferred to New York and became a partner in the Governance Practice of Mercer Delta Consulting. During that time, she co-authored Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Effective Governance (Jossey-Bass, 2005). In 2006 she became Managing Director of the Global Board Effectiveness Practice of the Hay Group, which enabled her to expand her work internationally. She also became a regular columnist on board issues for BusinessWeek.com. She left Hay in 2009 to found her own practice, Board Advisor, LLC based in New York. Her last book, Great Companies Deserve Great Boards (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) was named Governance Book of the Year by Directors & Boards magazine. During the 2020 COVID lockdowns she wrote two new books, New CEOs and Boards: How to Build a Great Board Relationship - and a Great Board and Board and Director Evaluations: Innovations for 21 st Century Governance Committees.