A Context for Then and Now As I watched the arts and culture scene throughout 2020 and 2021, I found myself frequently saying “smaller is better than gone.” This was actioned even within TRG Arts, where we had to furlough or lay off 40% of our team...

Ten years. What has changed in your professional, your personal, world over the past 10 years?

First, let me say: I’ve been looking hard to find a sector harder hit by pandemic economics than live and in-person, mid-sized performing arts and cultural businesses. Many sectors were affected dramatically, too—think restaurants and travel—but I...

I’m musing about creativity in the arts and cultural sector right now…in fact, I’m a little preoccupied by it. In my last post I asked, “Do we lack the creative environment required to fuel the sector’s pandemic recovery? In a way that matches its...

This article was first published in the Colorado Springs Business Journal on December 3, 2021. Building Resilient Organizations Takes Leaders Who Model Resiliency It usually comes as a surprise to most people to learn that what they consider to be...

How can we change our organizational systems to fuel creativity’s impact on our bottom line?

I’m borrowing this title from author and my new acquaintance, Bill Deresiewicz. It’s taken from his recent article in Harper’s with that title, and I think it’s an apt description of the experiential spectrum of those of us working in the arts...

We’ve just celebrated a milestone at TRG Arts. For the first time in the company’s 25-year history, we’ve received outside investment to help catapult our impact for the arts, cultural and (small e) entertainment fields at a time when impact is the...