Omaha cultural leadership program

Organizations with clear strategies and deep connections to their communities are more likely to be sustainable and create value for stakeholders. NAS has partnered with Arts Omaha to provide a sequential and meaningful 18-month program for its membership organizations which focuses on individual leadership and organizational capacity.

Program Timeline

2017
 
Fall: Managing People
1st intersession support period
 
2018
 
Early Spring: Leadership
2nd intersession support period
 
Fall: Strategy Seminar
3rd intersession support period
 
2019
 
Spring: Governance
 
Participating organizations must commit to the program for the entire cycle and send three to seven members to attend each seminar.

Learning Objectives

• Individual: strengthen skills to manage and lead
• Organizational: provide a supportive environment for team-based learning, reflection and action towards organizational change (defined by each organization and likely to evolve as the program progresses)
• Community-wide: create space for productive conversations around trends that may or will affect most or all of the organizations and possibilities for individual and collaborative solutions to community-wide problems
• Funders: to strengthen the leadership and resilience of the arts and culture community

Participating Organizations