Congratulations to the Leadership Institute Class of 2020!
Adam Alfrey Senior Curator/Operations Manager East Tennessee History Center Knoxville, Tennessee
Kawan Allen Research Historian North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites Raleigh, North Carolina
Kaila Austin Director of Content Development New Day Culture Indianapolis, Indiana
Marcy Breffle Education Manager Historic Oakland Foundation Atlanta, Georgia
Shatavia Elder Vice President of Education Atlanta History Center Atlanta, Georgia
Tafeni English Director Civil Rights Memorial Center Montgomery, Alabama
Cassandra Erb Curator of Exhibits Louisiana State Museum New Orleans, Louisiana
Ruthie Massey Director of Operations Mississippi Museum of Art Jackson, Mississippi
Mari Noorai Curator of Education and Interpretation Clemson University Department of Historic Properties Clemson, South Carolina
Natalie Rodriguez Historical Interpreter III North Carolina Department of Natural Cultural Resources/North Carolina State Historic Sites Raleigh, North Carolina
Kristin Hebert Veit Curatorial Cataloger The Historic New Orleans Collection New Orleans, Louisiana
SEMC Leadership Institute: Leading for Today’s Challenges
The Southeastern Museum Conference (SEMC) will offer a professional development program for future museum leaders that supports diversity and inclusion. SEMC Leadership Institute: Leading for Today’s Challenges has been re-scheduled as a virtual program to be run November 8 - 16 2020.
SEMC is proud to partner with the the Association of African American Museums (AAAM) to pilot this new program clearly focused on leadership training for staff of small- and mid-sized institutions.
SEMCLeadership Institute will develop a diverse and inclusive group of future museum leaders who:
Can identify and build on their existing personal strengths
Assess how to maximize these strengths internally in an organization and externally as part of a community
Identify methods to capitalize on their strengths and their environment to move an institution forward
The curriculum, taught by leaders in their fields, covers six areas:
Reflecting Your Best Self
Building Inclusive Cultures
Strategic Communication and Thinking
Leadership Challenges
Adaptive Leadership
Creating Your Best Self as an Organization
SEMC Virtual Leadership Institute tuition will be $1,500 for SEMC and AAAM members and $1,600 for non-members. Tuition will includes Institute resources, and a pre-workshop for Institute cohorts on Sunday, October 24, 2021 in Chattanooga, TN. Conference registration for SEMC 2021 Annual Meeting in Chattanooga will be complimentary for the 2020 Virtual Institute cohort.
SEMC Virtual Leadership Institute: Leading for Today’s Challenges will equip a new generation of museum leaders with outward-looking skills and strategies that increase their effectiveness as leaders and ability to create a productive and inclusive environment within the museum and among the museum’s board.
OBJECTIVES
The Southeastern Museums Conference Leadership Institute will develop a diverse and inclusive group of future museum leaders who: • Can identify and build on their existing personal strengths • Assess how to maximize these strengths internally in an organization and externally as part of a community • Identify methods to capitalize on their strengths and their environment to move an institution forward
CURRICULUM AREAS
The curriculum, taught by leaders in their fields, covers six areas: