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Leading for a Legacy

Leading for a Legacy

By: Meredith Schweitzer
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I’m on a mission to understand what makes a nonprofit, museum, or other cultural organization leader who people really want to follow. This is not your business school book with abstract theories or simplistic advice on building a good team. Leading for a Legacy is 6 part series of practical conversations with real directors and those who work with leaders about what they do and how they got to where they are now. If you are a new or emerging nonprofit leader, or an established one who is trying to determine what legacy you will leave your institution with when you are long gone, this podcast is for you.Copyright 2024 Meredith Schweitzer Art Career Success Economics Management Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • Building a Museum from the Ground Up National September 11 Memorial and Museum
    Nov 16 2020

    How would you go about building a new museum in a politically heated moment and aimed at telling the story of one of the nation's greatest tragedies? How would you rally staff and board to make the endeavor a reality? Join me as I talk with Alice Greenwald, CEO and President of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, about what it took to imagine and realize the museum - located in the footprints of the original World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, seven stories below grade. From the importance of working with communities to a vision of creating experiences through storytelling, as well as ongoing adaptations during the pandemic, we explore how Greenwald's leadership style has evolved and lessons she's learned along the way .

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    40 mins
  • Quick Fire with Alice Greenwald President and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
    Nov 25 2020

    What should you ask an assistant to take off your plate? What should new leaders think about when building a board? I'm back with Alice Greenwald, president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, for a short quick fire episode. If you missed our longer interview head back to episode one.

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    10 mins
  • Navigating a Merger and a Pandemic at Revolutionary Spaces
    Dec 1 2020

    What happens when two cultural nonprofits with a shared history (and shared audiences, donors, and larger communities) decide to join forces? And, what does this transition look like in the context of an ongoing pandemic? In this episode, we talk with Nat Sheidley, President and CEO at Revolutionary Spaces in Boston, Massachusetts, about how he led his team through a merger of the city's Old State House and Old South Meeting House. From developing board task forces to really understanding where a new mission and vision could take the organizations once they came together under one umbrella, Nat and his team are delivering innovative approaches to history and have committed to exploring what "We the people" can really mean.

    Learn more about Revolutionary Spaces at revolutionaryspaces.org.

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    34 mins
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