Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles (EAL/LA), a project of Community Partners, will host a panel entitled “Recruiters’ Insight: What the Next Generation Needs to Know on Their Journey Towards Executive Leadership†at Inner-City Arts, 720 Kohler Street in downtownLos Angeles,. The event will begin at 2:00pm and conclude at 6:30pm. Tickets are $10.
The thrust of this unique workshop is to raise awareness of the skills emerging arts professionals should develop when trying to adequately prepare to step into executive roles as the next generation of non-profit arts leaders. The workshop is intended to mutually benefit emerging and mid-career leaders.
Panelists include executive search professionals Karin Berger Stellar and Maxene Johnston as well as non-profit arts executive Joseph A. Collins. The panel will be moderated by Leslie Ito.
EAL/LA encourages creators, performers, funders, and arts administrators from all fields to attend. The event will include an opportunity for talented arts professionals to network with each other and to meet industry recruiters.
This panel will occur in conjunction with The NextGen Statewide Convening arranged by the Center for Cultural Innovation under President and CEO Cora Mirikitani’s leadership. Many members of Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles will be present as well as a handful of regional representatives from Americans for the Arts’ additional three emerging leader networks across California: GenArts Silicon Valley, Emerging Arts Professionals San Francisco Bay Area and Rising Arts San Diego.
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The EAL/LA Executive Search Panel is supported by a generous grant from the James Irvine Foundation.
Schedule:
1:45pm-2:00pm Registration
2:00pm-2:05pm Welcome & Acknowledgments
Tara Aesquivel
Executive Chair
Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles
Adjunct Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles
2:05pm-2:15pm Panel Introduction
Leslie Ito, Advisory Board Member, Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles & Program Officer, Arts, California Community Foundation
2:15-3:55pm Executive Search Panel
Karin Berger Stellar
Partner, Morris & Berger
Executive Search for the Nonprofit Sector
Joseph A. Collins
President and CEO
Inner-City Arts
Maxene Johnston
Founder and President
Johnston and Company
3:55pm-4:00pm Closing Remarks
4:00-6:30pm Networking Mixer: Emerging Leaders in the Arts with Nonprofit Executive Search Recruiters
Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles, a project of Community Partners and a local chapter of Americans for the Arts – Emerging Leaders Council, is a network of emerging leaders in the field of arts administration whose purpose is to grow and support the next generation of creative leaders in Los Angeles County. Members conceive of programs designed to expand their network, share resources, and enhance their professional development. This mission of Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles is to ensure sustainable innovation in arts leadership by facilitating and providing a forum for preparing, educating and inspiring emerging arts professionals to assume the next generation of arts sector leadership positions.
EAL/LA members are in their early career (under 35 and/or with less than five years’ experience in arts management) and share a desire to deepen their leadership capacity by developing innovative, effective, and responsible management practices. They represent organizations from all arts disciplines, in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors, and include artists, administrative coordinators, managers, and directors, arts funders, patrons, and consultants.
Karin Berger Stellar
Partner, Morris & Berger
Executive Search for the Nonprofit Sector
Stellar has worked at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in Alumni Relations; the University of California, Berkeley, in Development; and as Director of Development for the Libraries and Information Services at the University of Southern California. While at USC, Stellar completed her Masters in Public Administration with an emphasis in nonprofit management.
Stellar has served on the Board of Ronald McDonald House of Los Angeles and as Chair of the USC Price School of Public Policy Alumni Board of Directors. In addition, Stellar serves on the Board Development Committee of the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles, is a Member of the Organization of Women Executives, serves as an interviewer for undergraduate admissions for the University of Pennsylvania, and is a third-grade room parent.
Joseph A. Collins
President & CEO, Inner-City Arts
A veteran in the fields of arts, education and youth development, Collins has spent most of his career providing opportunities for youth to express themselves and improve their lives by creating safe and nurturing arts rich environments in NY, LA and Chicago. As CEO of the Kanye West Foundation he led the implementation of the Loop Dreamsâ„¢ program, a year-round music and education program that exposed youth from the inner city to the arts and executive produced the nationally televised stay-in-school concert series S.H.O.W. (Students Helping Our World). He spent his early career working for two of the premiere nonprofit agencies in New York City, University Settlement and The Door – A Center of Alternatives, a nonprofit youth agency serving over 10,000 young people a year. He grew the visual and performing arts programs, launched a national career awareness model for out-of-school youth, and led the partnerships of several New York City school programs. He also created and produced Roots! An Intergenerational Hip Hop Culture Celebration, a year-long arts and education initiative; developed comprehensive arts-in-education programs; as well as implemented a rigorous college preparation program, and managed a multi-year summer residential community service project. Collins holds both a bachelor’s and Masters degree from New York University.
Maxene Johnston
Founder and President, Johnston and Company
Johnston has over 25 years of combined management makeovers, turnaround, executive search and entrepreneurial experience in nonprofit organizations, government, business, healthcare and philanthropy. Johnston works with organizations facing challenges to their ability to provide services to their communities. She is a noted expert in helping nonprofits; in particular, transform themselves by establishing and implementing the necessary strategies, plans and resources to evolve to the next level. She has also built a successful track record in Executive Search by creating Signature Search Services that have been responsible for bringing talented professionals and leaders to a variety of organizations, particularly in the health and human service industry.
Prior to forming Johnston and Company, Johnston was a Partner and Vice President with national and international search firms. Formerly, she held the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Weingart Center. There, using the break-through thinking that has become the trademark of her considerable business personnel and problem solving techniques, she created from financial and social near-ruin one of the most entrepreneurial, innovative and comprehensive transitional housing and customized health and human service centers in the country.
She has an extensive background evaluating business strategies and management candidates through her past senior level positions with Children’s Hospital of L.A., the 1984 Olympic Organizing Committee and the L.A. County Department of Health Services.
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