Implementing evaluation: Six tips for creatives
Evaluation is an effective tool in understanding and improving an initiative. When properly integrated within day-to-day operations, evaluation can help reveal how individual parts contribute to collective results. In “Frameworks for Impact & Learning,” GLI module director Jessica Sperling, Ph.D. of Duke University, shares six tips with Fellows on fine-tuning evaluation in arts enterprises. […]
Evaluation in the Arts: Five Tips for Entrepreneurs
How well is your arts initiative doing? Want to refine it and show its value to others? Evaluation is a way of discovering, revealing, and evolving the functionality of projects. It helps arts leaders learn from observation to plan, make decisions, and improve things. In “Frameworks for Impact & Learning,” Jessica Sperling, Ph.D., of Duke […]
Bringing Logic Models to life: A case study
In the first semester of the Arts Innovation MBA, GLI fellows work in teams with creative impact organizations worldwide. These enterprises become Case Study subjects that help GLI fellows learn and practice the tools and frameworks taught in the classroom. Through this process, GLI fellows help Case Study partners to think creatively about their business […]
Using Logic Models: Giving clarity to passion
How do impactful arts entrepreneurs make a difference in the world? Through a clear vision of what they want and how to achieve it. Easier said than done! Module 2 of the Global Leaders Institute’s MBA in Arts Innovation familiarizes fellows with a tool to help plan and implement projects with purpose and impact. Through […]
Engaged Aesthetics: Why art is Important
Why do we need art? What makes art different from other things we enjoy? Creative sector leaders often face questions about the purpose of art from policymakers, funders, and even the general public in the context of their working lives. The opening module of the GLI’s 2024 MBA in Arts Innovation challenges Cohort Members to […]
GLI welcomes the 2024 Global MBA Cohort
The Global Leaders Institute is thrilled to announce its 2024 Cohort, a group of 65 rising arts change-makers selected from hundreds of outstanding applicants worldwide who will pursue the MBA in Arts Innovation. These cultural leaders are shaping the future of the arts in their communities and beyond. 2024 Cohort Members join the GLI representing […]
The Curve: Arthur Brooks 2023 GLI address
This week marks a historic moment in the history of arts leadership training: 60 creative sector professionals — fellows of The Global Leaders Institute’s 2023 Cohort from 30 countries — are graduating with the world’s first MBA in Arts Innovation. At the center of the weeklong celebration, social scientist Arthur Brooks — Professor of Nonprofit […]
What is a Music City? The future awaits
Can you envision a community where music is not just entertainment but a way of life? A place where music shapes its culture, its economy, its health, and its identity. A city where music catalyzes creativity, innovation, and social change. You’re looking at a Music City. In the Creative Ecosystems Seminar, led by Shain Shapiro […]
Mental Aikido: Turning challenges on their head
Sometimes, we don’t want to think too hard about things. We use shortcuts and habits to deal with everyday problems. But this can also make us lazy and stuck in our ways. We stop seeing the possibilities and wonder of the world like children do. We only see things for what they are, not what […]
Peabody Prep gets a gold star: new arts centers
The Global Leaders Institute recently met with 2023 Cohort Member Maria Mathieson, Executive Director of Peabody Preparatory, to discuss the importance of scaling Peabody’s impact in Maryland. To provide context on Mathieson’s work, The Peabody Preparatory is Baltimore’s premier community school for the performing arts. The Institute has long been a model for community arts […]