Center for Innovative Leadership

A Learning Lab For The Entire Arts Management Talent Pipeline

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The Center for Innovative Leadership is committed to transformative change in professional music through developing powerful and replicable models that propel art and education, sustain artists, and welcome all members of the community. Offering intensive seminars, workshops, and organizational consulting, the Center’s programs are each designed to serve specific cohorts in arts management, from rising professionals in the field to senior staff to board chairs. All programs offered are open to SFCM students to audit or actively participate.

PHILOSOPHY

The Center is committed to the philosophy that each organization must function within a unique community and economic ecosystem, and believes the path to success is leading with imagination, courage, and optimism while applying skillful execution of key initiatives and iterative design conjoined with a clever financial plan.
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Summer Institute for Arts Leadership 2024

A weeklong, seminar-style immersive experience for Arts Leaders of today and tomorrow, hosted at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and guided by thought leaders and taste makers across a wide range of disciplines within our field.

When: Monday, June 3, 2024 - Friday, June 7, 2024
Application Deadline: May 1, 2024

Full Attendee Tuition: includes morning sessions, afternoon workshops / sessions / breakout discussions and each night's evening panel discussion.

Evening Panel Tickets: only include the evening panel discussions.

  Rate
Full Attendee - SFCM student - full scholarship $0
Full Attendee - SFCM student - early bird discount* $300
Full Attendee - SFCM student $500
Full Attendee - SFCM Alum - early bird discount* $1,000
Full Attendee - SFCM Alum $1,200
Full Attendee - Non SFCM - early bird discount* $1,800
Full Attendee - Non SFCM $2,000
   
Evening Panels (5 Day Pass) - SFCM student $50
Evening Panels (5 Day Pass) - SFCM Alum $85
Evening Panels (5 Day Pass) - Non SFCM $100
Evening Panels - Single Ticket (1 day) GA $25

*early bird discount ends March 15, 2024

Sample Daily Schedule

10:00AM-12:00PM: Morning Session & Guest Speaker
12:00-1:00PM: Lunch Break
1:00-3:00PM: Afternoon Workshop (case study/mock scenario from morning session topic)
3:00-5:00 PM: Afternoon Session & Breakout Discussions
5:00-7:00PM: Dinner Break
7:00-9:00PM: Evening Panel Discussion

Continuing Education Credits
CEUs will be available to earn. (max 3 CEUs = 30 hours, full participants daytime sessions; 1 CEU = 10 hours, evening attendees); A completed certificate will be awarded for full participation (both daytime workshops and evening sessions attended).

To register please sign up in the form below and we'll be in touch!
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