program tracks
Leadership
The Leadership Track is about vision and inspiring others to think and work differently. Examples of leadership can be seen in every session at convention, but in the Leadership Track it is on stage and under the spotlight. Sessions address how to lead by cultivating the best in oneself and in others, and how to lead an organization through a new initiative or institutional challenge.
Personal Evolution: Peer-Coaching Circles
Finding time to rejuvenate ourselves is a constant challenge when we commit our personal and professional lives to nurturing others. This half-day advance workshop is your time for personal renewal in a safe and supportive environment. Certified coaches working in peer circles will candidly and confidentially help guide your work toward a sense of balance. Treat yourself to a mini-sabbatical, develop a peer-support network, and prepare for a more personally meaningful convention experience.
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Leadership and Connectivity
Truly effective leaders know how to develop links to their community and foster dialogues across constituencies. Connectivity is both a process and a product of good leadership, a framework for change and an ethic of authentic collaboration. When you think of leadership in these terms, you start to see spheres of influence among uncommon and unseen leaders all around your community. This interactive session showcases the lessons learned from Leadership Philadelphia’s 101 Connectors Project and will show participants how to leverage their role as connector in their communities.
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Leadership Innovator
 Facilitative Leadership in a Networked World
Leaders throughout the world are grappling with the implications of moving from the postindustrial era to the information age…an age where design, innovation, and creativity are essential to our ability to lead effectively.
This period of radically accelerated change is demanding each of us to make a profound internal shift in our behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs. And, perhaps most daunting of all, to acquire the new skills, tools, and frameworks that we need to lead in a networked world.
A facilitative leader is a “servant leader”—one who respects the value and diversity of each person and freely shares power and decision-making. S/he is strategic, receptive, flexible, and collaborative. A facilitative leader in a networked world must step further into her/his leadership—through humility, perseverance, creativity, innovation, and by rooting all that s/he does in the value of unlimited love.
In this session, we will explore these new dimensions of leadership that will enable us to bring our change efforts to scale and root them deeply in “the love that does justice.”
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The Evolution of Leadership and Learning
Arts and business organizations and leaders are increasingly seeking to strengthen the leadership skills of their constituents through mentoring and coaching programs. This hands-on session will lead participants through the development of a constituent coaching or mentoring program based on the needs of their community. Participants are encouraged to come prepared with goals for their program and can expect to leave with a plan to implement upon returning home.
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Governance as Leadership
Conventional advice unwittingly urges boards to think and govern like managers. This workshop approaches governance in a new way: by urging boards to govern as leaders! This workshop will look at three modes of governance—fiduciary, strategic, and generative—that together enable effective trusteeship. With a focus on generative thinking, arguably the most neglected work of a board of directors, participants will learn how to make important decisions about mission and strategy and ultimately become more effective leaders.
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A Foot in Both Worlds
One of the themes for many midcareer professionals is a sense of ‘what’s next’? This session will bring together a distinguished group of creative individuals who work in the arts and business sectors to present a range of options available to midcareer professionals. Each of the presenters has a unique journey to share. This highly interactive dialogue will encourage participants to share their stories and strategies for crossing-over and crossing-back between various sectors and career stages.
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- Brechin Flournoy, Strategic Marketing/PR Director, NEQA/Communications of Quinn Associates
- Nancy Hytone Leb, Arts Management Consultant
- Yoko Shioya, Artistic Director, Japan Society
- April Watkins, Senior Director, Business Operations, Dolby Laboratories
- Danielle Brazell, Executive Director, Arts for LA
- Barbara Silzle, Councilwoman, Lansdowne Borough (PA)
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Leadership Gap: Fact or Fiction?
There is much discussion about the prospect of the wholesale leadership turnover anticipated to hit the field of arts and culture in the next 10 years. What are we doing to prepare new leaders to take over? This panel draws on the expertise of national and local leaders who are investing, planning, and resourcing emerging leadership development in the arts and culture sectors.
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Minding Middlescence
Julia Fabris McBride will facilitate a peer discussion for professionals trying to find fulfillment and balance in their middle career stages.
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Emerging Leader Network Morning Meeting
Meet members of the Emerging Leaders Council, find ways to participate in the national network, and pick up some tips on how best to host a successful Creative Conversation. Learn how to develop a local emerging leader network in your community!
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Student Advocates for the Arts Morning Meeting
Want more arts in campus life...and life in general? Learn how to start a chapter of Student Advocates for the Arts. Talk with leaders at other campuses, get advocacy tips, and connect with your state captains.
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Arts in Higher Education Morning Meeting
Silagh White and other Campus Arts Directors will met to discuss ways to advance Creative Campus initiatives.
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Midcareer Professionals
Feel like you have emerged and that you are somehow facing other life and career challenges? Come meet people like you and share strategies for making a success out of this time in your career.
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Propose a Session for the 2009 Convention in Seattle!
The 2009 call for sessions will be available at this meeting. Americans for the Arts staff will be on hand to discuss ideas and answer questions. Come learn how to present your work at convention!
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