The Future Leadership program is a collaborative process for addressing the specific interests of our next wave of arts and culture executives. 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 of arts and culture professionals to dig deeper into specific goals, challenges, and professional development needs.
This Program Design Blog is our tool to share and discuss ideas for the design of events and services in this program. We’ve kicked off the blog by posting the results of this fall’s survey, and we hope you’ll add your thoughts to the findings to make sure we all get the picture right. This is our “open door” into the brainstorming, discussions, meetings, and often oddball process that is program design at NAS. Whatever your role – current executive, senior staff member, emerging leader, grantmaker, board member, volunteer, professor, artist, business leader – we look forward to working with you on this experiment.
Our goal is to deliver the first educational event in this program in the first quarter of 2009. We are already working on design concepts now based on the survey information and lots of other conversations, and we’ll keep adjusting those ideas as we hear your feedback. We will use this blog to post design concepts for discussion and refinement, and will then work with this community to select the most valuable concept. Figuring out the exact timing for the event (or service) is one of the questions we will need to discuss with you. Do we get moving quickly and keep the focus for the event very narrow, or do we take a bit more time so we can include more “features.” Expect more on that in a future post.
This is a novel experiment for our field, but one we believe can pay great returns. We look forward to working with you.
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