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Leadership: Sessions
Cultural Leadership
By 2050, the white majority will no longer exist in the United States. In New York City's Borough of Queens, long acknowledged as the most diverse county in the universe, whites constitute just one third of the population. This rapidly and relentlessly reinventing cultural landscape poses a new model for what it means to be a leader in a diverse era. This panel discussion will explore how truly innovative leaders are reinventing their roles in the continually transforming communities they serve and the creative citizen classes they empower. The speakers are pioneers at trekking through uncharted social and demographic territory and their stories reveal the risks, lessons learned, and the unexpected payoffs from their efforts.
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Adaptive Leadership Model
In today’s rapidly evolving global context, we need leaders who are capable of more than just mastering the technical expertise to run an organization effectively. We need people who can lead through adaptive expertise (shifting values, habits, and beliefs) so we can be more responsive to ever-changing work environments and cultural landscapes. We will delve into the differences between technical experts and adaptive experts. Through facilitated discussions, participants will explore these concepts through their own experiences and find new roles to play in achieving results as leaders. This model elicits a paradigm shift of perception, one that encompasses the big picture and enables everyone to be their own internal champion.
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MAPs to the Future: Mentoring in the Arts Programs—A How-To Workshop
Mentoring programs have become part of many leadership and professional development efforts by local arts agencies and service organizations that are seeking ways to bridge the skills and experience gaps between generations of administrators. Established leaders have wisdom and experience to share with young, upcoming leaders who have fresh ideas and a different perspective. Mentoring programs that enable each participant to share what they know and to learn from the other have strong implications for strengthening present and future leadership in the arts. Figuring out how to start a program in your community can be challenging if you’re building it from scratch. This workshop will include presenters from three organizations with mentoring programs who will share the plusses and the pitfalls of how they developed their programs. Designed to be highly interactive, with facilitated discussions and resources to take away, participants will leave with the fundamentals needed to start a mentoring program.
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Merger…Ready, Set…Wait
In times of economic crisis, we think about merging to pool resources and consolidate programs. But the Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies and ArtServe Michigan, the two premier service and advocacy organizations in the state, decided to merge to create a single organization with the credibility, capacity, creativity, and clout to enable ArtServe to diversify and increase the financial and personal investment in Michigan’s entire cultural community. Merging isn't as easy as it sounds and it is risky to admit that. Hear from three members of the ArtServe team who waded through murky waters to do just what they set out to do—build the arts in Michigan.
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Leading with Limited Authority
“You don’t have to be a person of influence to be influential.”
–Scott Adams, Dilbert creator
Throughout our careers as arts leaders, we are often called upon to lead those whose authority supersedes our own—bosses, boards, policymakers, and peers. What does it take to successfully navigate this tricky course of egos, perceptions, and predispositions to create positive, catalytic change? In this session, we'll discuss barriers to leading from the middle and methods for overcoming these barriers and influencing our bosses and peers. We'll draw from key concepts in Useem's Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss so You Both Win, Heifetz's Leadership Without Easy Answers, and Yoshitomi's Is Knowledge in the Right Places. After this highly interactive session, you'll leave with your own short action plan for leading with limited authority back home.
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Out of the Box: Coaching Leaders toward Balance, Fulfillment, and Success
Coaching is a powerful alliance that jump starts learning, encourages creative problem solving, and alleviates feelings of isolation. It’s particularly useful for arts leaders, whose complex challenges—from funding scarcity to frustrations with boards, to balancing life and work—can often seem overwhelming. Coaching explodes these common ruts by challenging our habitual ways of seeing things, reconnecting us with our passion, and stimulating us to take inspired action. In this session, you’ll hear three replicable case studies of coaching programs that support arts leaders, and we’ll also go beyond talking about coaching by giving you a live demonstration so you can experience the power of coaching first hand.
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Developing the Leadership Pipeline
Finding qualified successors to aging baby boomers has become a critical concern for many arts organizations. At the 2006 Annual Convention, Americans for the Arts posed Art in Changing Communities as its theme, setting the stage for addressing the field’s impending leadership transition. This concern is further complicated by U.S. census data that indicates a shrinking labor pool in the next 10 years, as more Americans than ever before hit retirement age. For many in this career stage, an executive director position is perceived as the only viable leadership pathway. Join this interactive session as we launch a dynamic dialogue that will explore strategies for attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining midcareer professionals.
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- Amy Kweskin Duncan, Principal, Arts Management Consulting
- Shannon Daut, Associate Director, Programs, Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF)
- Brechin Flournoy, Director of Public Relations, Quinn & Associates
- Essence Newhoff, Director of Major Gifts, Folger Shakespeare Library
- Eric Wallner, Cultural Affairs Supervisor, City of Ventura Cultural Affairs Division
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Inside the Leadership Studio
Behind every leader exists a fascinating career journey; in front, projects a unique vision of the future. Modeled after James Lipton’s Inside the Actors Studio, Lex Leifheit will bring exceptional creative leaders on stage to talk about their professional evolution, challenges, and successes, and about their perspectives on where arts leadership needs to, and should be, going. Listen and learn from true innovators in the field and ask questions of your own.
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Emerging Vision—An Intergenerational Exploration of Our Collective Future
Multiple generations of arts professionals, with their own distinct ideas, values, goals, expectations, and strategies for achieving success (and what success looks like), are working to advance the field. Do we have a common vision for our future? Now more than ever, emerging leaders have greater access, opportunity, and preparation to lead. How are emerging generations (in and out of the field) changing the way that we work, think, and plan? How will the arts industry look in the future as a result? Join this interactive dialogue to explore ways in which students, emerging leaders, midcareer leaders, and the established generation can work together to prepare for the collective future we are creating.
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Technology Adoption in the Arts
What prevents your arts organization from embracing technology innovation? How can you improve organizational decision-making processes to incorporate information technologies? To answer these questions, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council asked Carnegie Mellon Master of Arts Management (MAM) students to investigate the motivations behind arts organizations’ technology decisions. Using a case study approach, the team examined a broad range of Pittsburgh arts organizations, searching beyond financial causes to determine how technology awareness, psychological reasoning, and interoffice relationships have affected technology adoption and adaptation. In addition to presenting the project’s methodology, findings, and analysis, the team will provide insightful ways to look upon one’s own organization through moderated discussion and group brainstorming.
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- Cary McQueen Morrow, Executive Director , Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT), Carnegie Mellon University
- Samir Bitar, Master of Arts Management (candidate) , Carnegie Mellon University
- Emily Cornwell, Master of Arts Management (candidate) , Carnegie Mellon University
- Katie Guernsey, Master of Arts Management (candidate) , Carnegie Mellon University
- Abigail Santner, Master of Arts Management (candidate) , Carnegie Mellon University
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