Register now for a free webinar I’ll be presenting for Better Boards on 5 May, from 1-2pm AEST. Thanks to Better Boards for their interest in my webinar topic: The Most Consequential Relationship in Your Organisation: Getting the Chair/CEO Dynamic Right
My first time attending this conference, which was held this year at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Hundreds of theatre professionals from all over the UK in attendance with a line up of speakers carefully curated by Amanda Parker and The Stage’s Matt Hemley, both of whom also hosted. Panel topics included immersive theatre, building audiences, sound/audio quality and more, with the likes of Jamie Wilson and Luke Sheppard speaking on their west end hit shows, and a keynote from RSC artistic and executive leadership Daniel Evans, Tamara Harvey and Andrew Leveson. I moderated the panel on building off-stage revenue streams, being something I have had a lot of success with. My panel were a wealth of knowledge and opinions: Janthi Mills-Ward from Hull Truck Theatre speaking on their award-winning programmes training medicos in the art of bedside manners, classical musician turned entrepreneur Eddy Hackett speaking on founding The Lost Estate, and business partners Roseanna Anderson and Josh Ben-Tovim on founding Bristol based Impermanence and sharing a deconsecrated church space with a professional events company to offset running costs. Three take-aways from my panel were
I was thrilled to be joined by a 40 Chairs and Ceos of cultural institutions from all over the UK today, for the first workshop stemming from the Strengthening Chair/CEO Practice guidance I authored for Arts Council England. Thanks to Cultural Governance Alliance for presenting the workshop. It was terrific to see so many Chairs & CEOs attending the afternoon together, and taking away lists of actions they will now implement within their own organisations, and very helpful for me to have feedback on workshop content from such an experienced group of sector leaders. Whether museums, heritage sites, producing companies or venues, governance challenges were much the same. Lucky to be hosted by Hackney Empire, a Matcham gem in vibrant Hackney centre. With thanks to our hosts new CEO Chris Sudworth and Chair Sir William Atkinson, who both agreed to be interviewed by my on how their new CEO/ Chair relationship was being formed- with generous responses and a lot of insights shared.