EVENT SCHEDULE
Future Leadership is a community-wide partnership to meet the professional development needs of our next wave of arts and cultural executives. We are currently working with the community to design the first event in the Future Leadership program, scheduled for the first quarter of 2009.
Join in the Design Process for the Kickoff Event
The design of the kick off event is a collaborative process. Each step of the way, we will engage you in an open design dialogue. The process started in the spring with the initiation of the Future Leadership community discussion. The current, intensive design phase kicked off with a survey distributed in late August to approximately 900 arts and cultural professionals to dig deeper into specific goals, challenges, and professional development needs.
The results of this survey are now available on the Future Leadership Program Design Blog, and open for comment and continued feedback from everyone in the community. We are hard at work developing design concepts based on this information and the continued online discussion. We will post design concepts for the event to our web site for further comment and refinement, and will then work with the community to select the most valuable concept. NAS will then complete implementation and present the kickoff event in the first quarter of 2009.
Additional Events and Services
Using what we are learning in the design process for the kickoff event, we are also constructing the armature for a longer term, comprehensive set of services and events. We will use ongoing cycles of experimentation, evaluation, and development to meet more and more of the needs of prospective executives and their organizations. Central to this work will always be the collaborative, community-wide strategy being used to create the first event. We will kick off discussion of the next set of events and services for 2009 by posting a longer term program vision based on our current work with the community.
