Webinar: How to be Entrepreneurial and Innovative During a Pandemic by NAA Career Webinar Series

About This Webinar

Along with the numerous challenges 2020 has brought to the world, there are myriad opportunities to solve problems. Farley Center director Hayes Ferguson provides a look at how faculty and students have made the most of a challenging situation, seeking innovative ways to tackle new problems and old ones.

Lucie Sandel

Lucie manages the Northwestern Alumni Association Career Webinars and the Northwestern Connects program, our global networking event that has the goal of reaching 100 locations worldwide on Tuesday, January 30, 2024.

Hayes Ferguson

Clinical Associate Professor and Executive Director

Hayes Ferguson is the Director of Northwestern's Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and a clinical associate professor in the university's McCormick School of Engineering. Before joining Farley in 2020, Hayes spent 5 years at The Garage, Northwestern's student startup incubator, as an Entrepreneur in Residence and Associate Director.

A founding member of the senior management team at Legacy.com, Hayes has served in leadership roles at multiple digital companies. She has mentored myriad startups at Northwestern, as well as at Chicago incubators 1871 and Matter. Earlier in her career, she taught journalism at Medill after several years as a magazine writer, foreign correspondent and radio show host.

Hayes has a BA from Vanderbilt University and did graduate work as a Rotary Scholar at the University of Perugia in Italy and as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.