What we do

Partners in Performance helps people advance their leadership work in ways that contribute to increased effectiveness, healthier organizations, and greater impact. We sit side by side with leaders helping them identify their most complex challenges, facilitate honest, focused engagement across the organization and coach leaders in moving the organization forward with purpose and foresight. Read more about our Strategic Planning work plus the inspiring leaders and wondrous organizations with whom we work.

Jaime DeMott, Community Music School of MSU College of Music and Yolanda Wisher, Mural Arts Program share ideas during CAELI, one of our flagship leadership development programs. 

As with CAELI, we bring leaders together from different organizations and across sectors to create intensive and rewarding learning environments where leaders reflect on their own practice, gain insight into their strengths and preferences, and understand how to increase their effectiveness. Read more our Leadership Development programs and our range of leadership learning experiences.

We design and facilitate fruitful engagements where field-wide leaders engage in dialogue around policy development, recent trends,  big dilemmas and even bigger opportunities, all structured in ways that generate useful responses to some of the most critical, and often most vexing challenges presented by the "new normal." Read more about some of our recent Facilitation engagements.

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Check out newly selected resources on Innovation and Leadership. We've recently added articles and videos by Jonathan Gosling, Henry Mintzberg, Amy Radin and Alissa Walker.

Updated August 26, 2011.

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Check out this TED Talk where Ben Cameron speaks about the value of the performing arts.

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New Clients

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

We are so excited to be working with CEO Maryellen Gleason and everyone at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Over the next few months we’ll be helping four task forces shape up future direction around sustainability, patron development, community engagement, and board development---and forging a new long range institutional plan for the MSO.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance

While Martha Graham, one of America’s most treasured artists passed away in 1991, her legacy ‘lives’ on within the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. We’re so happy to be working with Janet Eilber and LaRue Allen and all the staff, Board and dancers in identifying innovative strategies to advance the fine work of the Graham Company and school. This engagement is another in our continuing role in supporting the New Pathways Program of EmcArts and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Visit the Center to learn more about their current activities. 

Merit School of Music

Partners in Performance is delighted to be working with the Merit School of Music in Chicago. Merit is one of the leading schools of music in the nation and has grown rapidly (founded in 1979) to now serve more than 6,000 young people through dozens of partnerships across Chicago.  Partners in Performance will be working with Merit’s leadership on governance and organizational structure.

Arts Council of New Orleans

The Arts Council of New Orleans has been an essential contributor to the rebuilding of the arts and cultural sector following the devastation of Rita and Katrina in 2005. The Arts Council provides Cultural Planning, Advocacy, Public Art, Economic Development, Arts Education, Marketing, and Grant and Service Initiatives focused on its vision of New Orleans as a flourishing international center for arts and culture.

We are assisting the Arts Council of New Orleans in identifying a new Chief Executive Officer. We're pleased to be working with Interim Director & CEO Mary Len Costa, Board Chair Thomas Reese, and the Search Committee. Check back here in the next few weeks for the position description and application procedures.

Concord Community Music School

The Concord Community Music School is New Hampshire’s largest community music school and among the 30 largest community arts schools nationally. Its mission is to foster a sense of community through music by providing the fullest possible array of musical experiences for people of all ages, musical abilities, and backgrounds. Partners in Performance is working with President Peggy Senter, the Board, and CCMS staff on their new strategic planning effort!

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