About National Arts Strategies

National Arts Strategies provides premier leadership development programs for the arts and culture sector. Founded over 25 years ago by the Ford, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, NAS began its work in leadership education nine years ago, and has focused its programs exclusively on leadership education for the past seven years. Their programs feature faculty from premier graduate and business programs including Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Over the last seven years NAS has worked with over 2500 executives and board members in arts, culture, and preservation through their national and regional programs. Their programs reach top professionals from across the cultural sector who are emphatic about the unique quality and impact of NAS’ offerings. Three features characterize NAS programs:
 

• World-Renowned Teachers: The professors who are working with NAS to develop and teach these sessions are each recognized as leaders in their fields. They are not only exceptional researchers and thinkers; they are proven top-of-class teachers. Expect to be challenged throughout the day to look deeper at your thinking and experiences.
• Clear Frameworks: The focus is on teaching concepts and frameworks that you can use to make leadership decisions in your unique context. Rather than offering “how to” recipes, these sessions will introduce new perspectives that you can use creatively. And you’ll get practice using the frameworks in the classroom.
• Experiential Learning: Experienced professionals learn best by putting their experience and ideas to the test on new problems. Each of these sessions will be highly interactive, using complex case discussions, simulations, mini-lectures, and applied exercises to help you discover, test, and learn new frameworks. The sessions are kept small so everyone can participate.
   

For more information about National Arts Strategies and the Future Leadership program, please visit http://www.artstrategies.org/programs/future_leadership/index.php