events
As part of the re.volution experience, Peers and members will be offered the opportunity to attend a number of 'Learning Days' curated in line with re.volution's four themes.
You can read about our first Learning Day below and you can sign up to attend here.
“Recognizing Realities”: what kind of governance and what kind of leadership do we need for these changing times?
Tuesday March 27th, 11.00am – 5.00pm, Live Theatre, Newcastle
“Although not everyone working in the field of culture has realised it yet, the cultural world has fundamentally changed, over a very short space of time, and we need new models of leadership to operate in new circumstances.” John Holden
“It used to be that boards and governance were substantially the same: the two concepts overlapped. But with time and a radically changing environment the domain of “governance” has moved beyond the domain of “the board.” Though never stated in this way, governance and boards have greatly diverged in many of the settings where we address our most complex and demanding community needs. But in these complex environments, boards of individual organizations serve the functions of governance less and less well.” David O. Renz
Join Tesse Akpeki, Dougald Hine, Diane Ragsdale, Sarah Thelwall, MMM re.volutionaries Declan Baharini, Faith Liddell, Lesley Patrick, the MMM team and your peers at a day of debate and conversation about the kind of governance and leadership we need in these changing times.
We’ll be talking about ‘networked leadership’, what that looks like and why we need to develop it, 'collective intelligence' what that means and why it’s important and the ‘new governance’ and what we can do to develop it.
And we’ll be opening up the space for you to discuss your own experience of leadership and governance and share your views about these ‘hotter than ever’ topics!
Sign up to attend here
Programme and Schedule
10.30a.m. - 11.00a.m. Registration and coffee
11.00a.m. - 11.10 a.m. Welcome and introduction to the day
Tesse Akpeki (consultant, facilitator and coach)
11.10a.m. - 11.25 a.m. What governance challenges are we facing now?
Video Interviews with:
Russell Willis Taylor (President and CEO of National Arts Strategies) and Vernon Ellis (Chairman, English National Opera and the British Council)
11.25a.m. – 11.45a.m. Are our traditional governance approaches helping or hindering?
Diane Ragsdale (writer and commentator)
11.45a.m. – 12.35p.m. Breakout group discussion
12.35p.m. – 12.50p.m. Group feedback
12.50p.m. – 1.30p.m. Lunch
1.30a.m. – 1.45p.m. What new forms of governance and leadership are emerging and why?
Tesse Akpeki (consultant, facilitator and coach)
1.45p.m. – 2.05p.m. What is collective intelligence and why is it important?
Dougald Hine (writer, creator of organisations, projects and events)
2.05p.m. – 2.30p.m. Questions and discussion
2.30p.m. - 3.00p.m. Leadership and governance of collaborations: lessons from the front line
Declan Baharini (NewcastleGateshead Cultural Venues), Faith Liddell (Festivals Edinburgh), Lesley Patrick (Opera North and the University of Leeds)
3.00p.m. – 3.30p.m. Questions and discussion
3.30p.m.– 3.40p.m. How pooling our data can help build our collective intelligence: lessons from the front line
Sarah Thelwall (Mycake)
3.40 – 4.35 Small group discussions
4.35 – 5.00 Group feedback
