Museums Today: The Resilience Playbook
Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 6pm EST
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Times of extraordinary change demand flexibility, humility, perseverance, self-reflection and a responsiveness to a complex confluence of realities by museum leaders. Agile leadership requires mapping out meaningful, relevant, and financially viable paths forward to achieve greater public impact, inclusion, and value through resilience practices. Resilience strategies require rethinking long-held approaches and tackling embedded exclusionary, colonial ideologies, and outmoded practices to establish more flexible, inclusive, and responsive frameworks that better align with external realities. This session will explore strategies to achieve greater relevance in the lives of diverse publics and in the community ecosystem. The three authors of The Resilience Playbook (2020) will highlight its core ideology based on 5 interrelated goals that frame strategies tied to increasing inclusion, community value, institutional impact, financial alignment, and leadership agility.
Anne W. Ackerson is a former history museum director and director of the Museum Association of New York. As an independent consultant, she specializes in leadership, governance, and management issues. She is the co-author of Leadership Matters: Leading Museums in an Age of Discord and Women in the Museum: Lessons from the Workplace.
Gail Anderson consults with museums to facilitate transformational change, build institutional and leadership capacity, and expand community and global relevance. She is the author of Mission Matters: Relevance and Museums for the 21st Century (2019) and editor of Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift (2012, 2004).
Dina Bailey is a national thought leader with extensive experience in developing inclusive solutions in collaboration with volunteers, staff, boards, and stakeholders. She is a recognized trainer, author, and speaker on the trends, challenges, and opportunities facing organizations in transition. A skilled facilitator, Dina has developed exceptional approaches that lead to both a breadth and depth of inclusive action.
This event was presented by AAMG in partnership with The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum.
