Ensemble Consulting Information

Every board has the potential to play beautifully together, serving its organization as a fine and ambitious ensemble in which each member knows and expertly plays his/her role and the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. But too often we find ourselves falling far short of this potential. Board members are deeply committed to their organization’s mission but uncertain how to fully or effectively engage individually or as a team. Arts Leadership is appreciative of board members but acutely aware the board as a whole could be/should be doing more. Ensemble Consulting works with arts leaders and boards to effectively bridge the gap between a board’s current reality and its inherent potential. Principal Kristin Patton brings a combination of group process facilitation and expert consulting to: • Meet arts boards where they are and ensure everyone in the group has a fully informed and shared perspective regarding the organization’s and the board’s current situation. • Tap the group’s inherent wisdom regarding where the organization and board need and want to go. • Engage the group in a process through which the board and artistic leadership energize, organize themselves, and take action to meet their goals. • Help bring the tools and create the processes along the way to support the board in its new ensemble mode, setting in place a virtuous cycle of planning, achieving, evaluating, and planning.