Agency is using disruption as a tool for change by intentionally challenging outdated systems, narratives, and power structures within the cultural sector. Through bold experimentation, inclusive collaboration, and transformative leadership training, Agency fosters environments where new ideas can emerge and marginalized voices are centered. This strategic disruption serves as a catalyst, designed to spark meaningful dialogue, shift perspectives, and build more equitable and imaginative futures.
Current Disruptions:
Museums tell our stories, document our histories and help us build our vision for the future, but even museums need to change. Let us help you disrupt the status quo, challenge the narratives we take for granted, and redefine the boundaries. WHAT IF MUSEUMS ARE PLACES TO CULTIVATE NEW FUTURES? Check out this conversation Hillary and Maggie had with Avi Dector regarding Museums and Change.
Future Perfect Leaders (FPL) addresses a critical gap in executive development for museum leaders by redefining leadership for dynamic, uncertain, and evolving environments.
Core Components
- A Vibrant Learning Community:
Future Perfect Leaders emphasizes continuous knowledge exchange. Traditional programs offer discrete cohorts a community of practice to refine existing solutions. Future Perfect Leaders creates a dynamic, multi-level learning community of interest that invites a wide variety of experts from different domains to explore alternate futures. Executive leaders at various stages of their careers—from emerging EDs to seasoned CEOs—collaborate, share insights, and mentor one another, practice ongoing personal and professional development and adaptability.
- Practical Activism and Intersectionality:
The program empowers leaders to tackle pressing societal challenges, including unconscious bias, local politics, and economic inequality. By redefining museum leadership through the lenses of activism and social justice, participants are equipped to drive meaningful change within their institutions and communities. The program emphasizes activist leadership, intersectional thinking, and deep community engagement, preparing leaders to navigate the evolving role of museums while addressing the often-overlooked challenges they face today.
- 21st-century Learning Models:
Future Perfect Leaders is designed to explore and examine concerns and issues not included in traditional leadership programs. By creating an exclusive learning environment of peers, leaders can share their challenges, concerns, and indeed, failures, as they navigate the new frontiers of cultural leadership, board negotiations, political divisions, and generational trauma. The program tackles real-world issues often overlooked in traditional training, such as board management, radical philanthropy, and the socio-political impact of museums.
Key Benefits:
- Preparation for Future Challenges:
Leaders gain skills for tomorrow’s museums, emphasizing critical thinking, adaptive strategies, and community engagement.
- Future-focused Professional Development:
FPL provides a supportive and confidential environment that fosters personalized growth and establishes a strong network of industry peers. Unlike other professional development programs, FPL creates a robust, ever-growing community of leaders from different areas of expertise with distinct perspectives on leadership and change. This provides participants with a rich peer group that is continually adding to its body of knowledge and is reflective of current thought trends, challenges, and community needs.
- Addressing Structural Gaps:
FPL tackles real-world issues often overlooked in traditional training, such as board management, crisis communications, radical philanthropy, and the socio-political impact of museums.
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