A lot of organizations talk about the need for better representation on our staffs, but don’t talk about how exactly to do that. If we don’t change the way we hire, we won’t see lasting change on our teams. With the Great Resignation and Great Reshuffle, many people say it’s…

Books for Arts Administrators — What. A. Year. While 2021 saw its ups and downs for arts and culture — going from “can we gather safely?” to reopening our concert halls, to trying to recoup ticket sales to pre-pandemic levels, to now a new virus strain shuttering many venues again — we made it this…

Lots to Do, But It CAN Be Done — When the announcement went out in 2019 that I decided to move on from the California Symphony to make a broader impact before leading another classical music institution, the floodgates opened in the best way. …

The Largest Orchestras are Run by 67% Men — In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m sharing data I’ve been sitting on for a while. It’s not particularly surprising; it more confirms what some people already intuitively thought was true, which is that for orchestras, the larger the budget, the greater the gender disparity among chief executives. …

Five Steps to Create a New Normal — With a vaccine rollout underway, when fall of 2021 arrives orchestras will likely have an opportunity we won’t then have had for a year and a half: the opportunity to have a full live performance season. And while there is good reason to believe that there will be a spike…

Titles for Arts Administrators — We have made it to the end of 2020. While this year is undeniably awful for so many reasons, the disruption it caused to literally everything made me all the more curious and eager to read and consume new ideas. …

Guidelines for Safe Reopening Benefit All of Us — This post is in partnership with Californians for the Arts, the Association of California Symphony Orchestras, California Presenters, and the California Association of Museums.

Not a Zero-Sum Game, Part 3 of 3 — Every arts organization is at a crossroads now. Do we do everything we can to return to business as soon as possible, or do we double down on planning for a future that looks different than our past? …

Not a Zero-Sum Game, Part 2 of 3 — Beyond the pandemic fallout of ubiquitous concert cancellations, halt of ticket revenue, and loss of work for artists and administrators, the systemic issues within classical music that predate coronavirus have been amplified over the last several months. …