Leadership and Convergence: Navigating Radical Change in Arts and Culture
In November 2010, leaders from our nation's most outstanding arts and culture institutions spent three and a half days exploring practical strategies for a new world of converging consumer interests, markets, and industries. Leadership and Convergence: Navigating Radical Change in Arts and Culture was presented as part of our Chief Executive Series™.
Produced in partnership with the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and led by outstanding business school faculty and speakers
recognized around the world for their work, this
residential program focused on one of the most challenging issues facing arts and culture today. Cultural leaders are working in a radically different environment than in decades past. The market now provides an almost endless array of choices for consumer time, money and loyalty. Over the past decade, consumers have stopped making the traditional, rigid distinctions between the benefits they get from leisure activities, artistic offerings, commercial products and nonprofit offerings.
At the same time, new technologies (such as high-definition
broadcasts), product and service innovations (such
as theatrical, immersive experiences at retail stores)
and new production models (such as participant-created
content and experiences) have brought leisure, arts,
and entertainment sectors into each other's historically
separate markets. This convergence in both the mind
of consumers and the market scope of organizations
has changed the stage for arts and cultural organizations.
Faculty
Leadership and Convergence brought together all of the expertise, resources, and connections
of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the
University of Michigan to focus on the arts and cultural
sector. The Ross School is consistently one of the
highest-ranked business schools in the country, and
boasts one of the nation's top-ranked executive education
programs. The school blends academic strength with
intensive development of the applied leadership capabilities
that produce extraordinary results in a rapidly changing
business world. Leading-edge content, world-class
faculty, and sharing of best practices and next
practices among colleagues also contribute to
the exceptional quality of the school's offerings.
The complex issues involved in leading a cultural nonprofit today can challenge even the most skilled management team. Using our first-hand experience in the arts and working with faculty from leading business and graduate schools, we deliver executive-level programs that help you find new opportunities, manage your resources and lead your organization toward its mission.
