The Chief Executive Program
The Chief Executive Program offers an extraordinary opportunity for you and a select group artistic and executive leaders to spend ten months exploring leadership and change while building skills and relationships that you will draw upon for the rest of your career.

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Selection & Participation
The ideal participant is a change agent – a leader interested in making a real difference in a community and in the field. Leaders chosen to take part in this unique experience have the opportunity – and a responsibility – to share what they’ve learned and serve as influencers for the field. Participating leaders come from a broad and diverse mix of organizations that may include performing and visual arts, zoos, libraries, aquariums, botanical gardens, science centers, writer’s centers, historical societies, public media – any organizations that encourages creativity. This diversity is an essential part of the Chief Executive Program experience.
- Budget under $1 million: $4,500 each
- Budget between 1 and 4 million: $6,500 each
- Budget between 4 and 10 million: $8,500 each
- Budget between 10 and 20 million: $14,500 each
- Budget over 20 million: $16,500 each
- Tuition for participants based outside of the US is set at $19,500 each
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Faculty
Meet some of the Chief Executive Program’s incredible faculty, who will guide your exploration through the most pressing issues cultural organizations face today. Address bias awareness, strategy, value creation in communities and adversity to expand your capabilities as a leader.
Mahzarin r. banaji
Program Manager
rohit deshpande
Program Manager
ramon casedesus masanell
Program Manager
Case Stories
Being taken out of your comfort zone and looking at decisions that made...
Shahina Johnson
Create Studios
Read Shahina's storyGetting to meet leaders from my industry and having access to them....
Shirley Sneve
Vision Maker Media
read Shirley's storyI found it useful to talk to people who run organizations of different...
Katy Clark
Brooklyn Academy of Music
read Katy's story