Russell Willis Taylor, President & CEO, National Arts Strategies. Keynote at Museums Galleries Scotland 'Fortune Favours the Brave' Conference, 12th September 2013.

1. Curating Our Future:
Creating Sustainable
Institutions

2.  Why we matter
 What sustainability really means
 Four big challenges

4. Engagement
Governance
Change
Value

5. I. Engagement
The Challenge:
Engaging visitors
and communities as
genuine collaborators

6. –from Field Notes January 20 post, “What’s your mandate?”

9. Remove barriers to the experience

10. It’s not a broadcast, it’s a
conversation.

11.  We need data to know how to communicate
with niche audiences; to know what they care
about and when they listen
 Social media
 Learning during their experience
 Building relationships without badgering
them
 Respect and caring for amateurs

12. If you aren’t at the (civic)
table, you are probably on the
menu.

13. The Challenge:
How do we create the 21st Century Board
to advance our work?

14. You have to put
sand in the oyster –
it’s the grit that
makes the pearl.

15. Good Meeting = Time Saved + Lunch
Time Wasted

16.  Accountable
 Transparent

17. An average group of people with a great
process will achieve more than a team of
stars with a poorly designed process.
Dave Owens
Vanderbilt University
Expert on Innovation

18. Reflects a culture where CEO and
board are partners – sharing in
risk, failure, and success.
The Summit at Sundance:
Roles of the Board discussion group

19. Is always engaged in
strategic succession
planning

20. Give, get or get off.
Inspire, or retire.

21. The Challenge:
Developing employees and
systems that will transform
organizations and the field

22. Everybody has a plan – until
they get punched in the face.
Mike Tyson

23. Hire as much for
attitude as aptitude.

24. Culture Eats Strategy

25. The Challenge:
Becoming indispensable to
society, as organizations
and as a field

26. Price is what you pay,
value is what you get.
Warren Buffet

28. Curating Our Future:
Creating Sustainable
Institutions