The Northwest Boardroom is an organization that helps people and
businesses achieve performance excellence and professional
development through training. The Northwest Boardroom hosts open
forum workshops on leadership, management, sales and professional
development. Boardroom facilitators support organizations of all sizes
and types by creating tailored training and development solutions
designed to facilitate your goals – and then delivering them in house, at
our facility or at a coordinated location.  The Northwest Boardroom
combines world class curriculum and expert facilitation with a broad
range of experience so as to create a training experience unlike any
other - bringing you measurable results.
The Northwest Boardroom is a "Partner" level member of the Portland Business Alliance.
The Board at The Northwest Boardroom is a group of community
leaders who are at the heart of The Northwest Boardroom experience.  
The Board is first a curriculum advisory board providing guidance and
feedback from a real world perspective that augments the world class
academic material.  Board members also serve as “In Seminar” keynote
speakers, adjunct facilitators and they represent The Northwest
Boardroom and the general concept of excellence through development  
in their communities.
The Northwest Boardroom
The Board
President - Principal Facilitator
Gower D. Talley
MBA
Commitment

He who tries hopes for luck. He who decides to succeed succeeds. He who decides to win wins. This is almost always true. Your total
commitment and total effort will come into direct competition with opposing total commitment (so that the deciding factor actually
becomes something intrinsic ) so infrequently that it is almost not worth discussing. Perhaps total commitment comes in competition
with total commitment in high-level sporting events, such as the Olympic Games.  Even there, not everyone in the starting blocks of
the finals to the hundred-yard dash has decided to win. Even there, the people who fail to win can probably point to something they
didn’t do—some effort unexpended, either in training or in the execution of the race itself.

There is a saying in football: “Bring it all to the field; don’t leave any in the locker room.” Bringing it all to the field is so rare in real life
that if you actually decided to do it, if you don’t decide to try, if you decide to do what is necessary to succeed, you will.

GDT
"Oval Office" at GHWB Library
Apollo era Mission Control at NASA
Gower D. Talley holds a Master’s Degree in Business
Administration and is a member of the American Society for
Training and Development, The American Marketing
Association and MENSA.   He has served as a state level
Marketing Director, a multi-department business owner, a
regional training manager and has transformed businesses all
over North America as an on-site training consultant.  He is a
combat vet, a
key-note speaker, a published author, a
national business contest winner and has been
interviewed on local and national television.  Gower is
probably the most high energy and enthusiastic person you
have ever met and he absolutely refuses to fail.

Gower will bring his keen observational skills, his infectious
enthusiasm, his ability to make the complex understandable
and his ability to create order out of chaos to your
organization.  He will train someone within your organization
to pick up where he leaves off and your organization will
never be the same.

Email or Call to schedule a no cost, no obligation, zero
pressure discovery meeting to see if the “
Countdown to
Greatness” process is right to launch your organization to its
potential. You have EVERYTHING to gain