James L. Allen Center, Northwestern University
June 24-29, 2012
In partnership with the Kellogg School of ManagementCenter for Nonprofit Management at Northwestern University
Seminar Team
Leadership Seminar Program Director David Alan Robertson steps down as The Ellen Philips Katz Director of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in late December 2012 to focus his attention on the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries/Kellogg Leadership Seminar and to continue his capacity building work for the AAMG. He is immediate-past president of the AAMG. During his three-year tenure as president, Robertson composed with the board its first strategic and business plans and AAMG established a strong web presence and internet communications tools (including establishing a listserv reaching over 3,000 academic museum and gallery professionals). In 2009 he established and continues to co-chair the multi-association (AAM, AAMD, CAA, AAMC) national Task Force on University and College Museums. He is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Association of Museums. Dr. Robertson (Ph.D. Pennsylvania) has held museum positions at the University of Chicago, University of Oregon, Loyola University, Dickinson College, Yale University and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was Fulbright Professor at the University of Munich in 1989-90 and has published widely in the fields of art and museum history. He will lead the Seminar Topic: Today's Governance Challenges. Academic Director, Kellogg Center for Nonprofit Management Liz Livingston Howard is a graduate of Northwestern University and holds an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. Ms. Howard is the Associate Director of Kellogg's Center for Nonprofit Management and teaches in the Social Enterprise at Kellogg Program. She developed and teaches curriculum for MBA students and nonprofit executives. Ms. Howard serves as the Academic Director for a variety of nonprofit executive education courses and has designed several custom executive education programs. Previously, Ms. Howard served as Assistant Dean for Development for Kellogg from 1994 to 2003. In that role, she was responsible for the fundraising activities of the Kellogg School including alumni and individual solicitation and corporate and foundation grants. She was involved in the $1.4 billion Campaign Northwestern. During her tenure, total giving to the school increased 100% and the Kellogg School raised over $100 million for significant objectives in Campaign Northwestern. Prior to joining the Kellogg School, Ms. Howard served as a fundraising consultant with Charles R. Feldstein & Company, based in Chicago. Her additional development work was as Director of Development for the Chicago Tourism Council/Mayor's Office of Tourism for the City of Chicago and as the first Director of Development for Regina Dominican High School, Wilmette, Illinois. She will lead the Seminar Topic: Fundraising. Faculty Gail Berger is a Lecturer at Northwestern University in the Kellogg School of Management, McCormick School of Engineering and the School of Education and Social Policy. She brings academic and professional experience in the areas of conflict resolution, leadership development, succession planning and team building. She has consulted to small firms, Fortune 500 companies, and non-profit organizations. Her consulting work focuses on executive assessments, succession planning, leadership development and teambuilding. Some of the organizations she has worked with include Driehaus Capital Management, Grant Thornton, Jewish Federation of Chicago, Lockheed Martin, Masco, McDonalds, and Safer Foundation. Professor Berger has won several teaching awards and her research has been presented at national conferences and published in leading journals. She received her Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She also holds a M.Ed. in Administration and Supervision from Loyola University and a B.A./B.S. in Psychology and Elementary Education from Boston University. Seminar Topic: Negotiations and Decision Making. Jill Hartz is a seasoned museum professional and the current president of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries. Since August 2008, Hartz has served as executive director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene. She is responsible for a 13,000+ collection with special strengths in Asian and Pacific Northwest Art and a 60,000 square foot facility that was renovated and expanded in 2005. From 1997 through 2008, she served as director of the University of Virginia Art Museum in Charlottesville and for ten years previously worked in administrative, curatorial and marketing positions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. She has organized numerous exhibitions and is the editor of four books, including "Agnes Denes," a monograph produced for the retrospective exhibition at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, in 1992; "Siting Jefferson: Contemporary Artists Interpret Thomas Jefferson's Legacy," documenting the 2000 exhibition "Hindsight-Fore-Site: Art for the New Millennium" (2003); and "Amazonia," the catalogue for the exhibition she curated in 2010. Her current interests include 20th-21st century environmental and installation art, photography, new media, and contemporary Cuban art. In addition to her publications in magazines and newspapers on a variety of topics, she has lectured extensively on museum accreditation and strategic planning, exhibition organization, marketing and publishing. She is a reviewer for the Institute of Museums and Library Services and for the AAM's Museum Assessment Programs and Accreditation. Seminar Topic: Teaching and Inspiring the Next Generation of Museum Leaders. Richard P. Honack is a Lecturer of Executive Programs at the Kellogg School. He is an Academic Director for several Kellogg School Executive Education programs, including: Strategic Marketing Communications in Today's Media World and the Skills, Tools, and Competencies (STC) program for Brazilian managers with Fundacao dom Cabral (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). He also teaches in the Executive Development Program (EDP) as well as several other Kellogg programs, where his sessions focus on Leading and Marketing in the Nanosecond Culture, Generational Differences and Services Marketing and Management. Honack also is a member of the Kellogg Center for Nonprofit Management's Executive Education Program where he is an academic director and a faculty member for several programs focused on Strategic Leadership for Nonprofits and on Fundraising and Marketing. He is a faculty member for the Center's Custom Executive Education programs consulting organizations like Ronald McDonald House Charities, the United States Olympic Committee, USA Swimming and the Harris Bank's nonprofit leadership program, to name a few. Honack's research and teaching focuses on generational marketing and managing in the "Nanosecond Culture." His lectures emphasize the need to understand the changing values and dynamics of the six generations that make up that culture in today's marketplace -- Great Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen "X", Gen "Y" and Generation "Z." He discusses the impact that these generational differences make in the marketing of services and products as well as the importance of the different expectations that each of these groups have on management within an organization. Seminar Topic: Applying "Customer-Focused" Marketing Strategies in the Nonprofit World. Robert Livingston is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. His is a diversity researcher whose research examines how physical appearance and nonconsious processes influence stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. He is also interested in the topic of diversity in leadership. Specifically, he investigates the unique challenges confronting women and minorities in upper management, as well as the conscious and nonconscious processes underlying leader selection. Livingston's research has been published in numerous top-tiered journals including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Psychological Science. He has received numerous awards for outstanding research and teaching, including the Social Issues Dissertation Award from Division 9 of the American Psychological Association. He is the member of numerous professional organizations and serves on the editorial board of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. J. Keith Murnighan is the Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in social psychology and a BS in psychology from Purdue University. Prior to joining Kellogg in 1996, he taught at the Universities of Illinois and British Columbia. He has also had visiting appointments at the London Business School, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the University of Warwick, Coventry, England, Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) outside Paris, and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He teaches in Kellogg's Executive MBA programs around the world, including Hong Kong, Germany, Toronto, and Miami (the Latin American program). His courses address leadership, negotiation, team building, decision-making, trust, and conflict. Seminar Topic: Communications and Building Trust. Marian Powers is Adjunct Associate Professor of Accounting Information and Management, Kellogg School of Management and is noted collector and supporter of the arts in metropolitan Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana. She has served on the accounting faculty of the Kellogg School, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and The Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Since 1987, she has been an adjunct professor of accounting at the Allen Center for Executive Education at Northwestern University specializing in teaching financial reporting and analysis to executives. She is also co-author of several college accounting textbooks and in-depth cases on financial analysis. The Text and Academic Authors Association chose Financial Accounting as recipient of the 1998 Textbook Excellence Award. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, The International Journal of Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, The Journal of Accountancy, The Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, and Financial Management among others. Professor Powers has co-authored three accounting and finance interactive multimedia software products. Fingraph Financial Analyst is financial analysis software. Financial Analysis and Decision Making is a goal-based learning simulation focused on how to interpret financial reports. Introduction to Financial Accounting is also a goal-based simulation that uses the Financial Consequences Model to introduce financial accounting and the financial statements to those unfamiliar with accounting. Dr. Powers has received recognition and awards for her teaching and is a part of a team that developed and delivers The Conference on Accounting Education, an annual conference now in its 19th year. Seminar Topic: Navigating the complexities of Academic Museum Finance. Tom Shapiro has over 20 years of leadership experience improving mission-based results with non-profit arts organizations and for-profit consumer companies in several areas, including strategic planning, marketing strategy and branding, success metrics and evaluating mission-based impact, membership and affinity programs, new product development and strategic pricing. He holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and is a partner at Cultural Strategy Partners in Chicago. He is currently working with Slover Linett Strategies and the Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago, on a study of academic art museums and their diverse audiences. Seminar Topic: The Business Plan as a Management Tool. Linda Sugin is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. She is a graduate of Harvard College and NYU Law School, where she has also been an Acting Assistant Professor and a Visiting Professor. Her scholarship and teaching are in the areas of Taxation, Distributive Justice, and Nonprofit Organizations. She is co-author of a textbook for the basic law school course on taxation, The Individual Tax Base, published by West. Her nonprofits scholarship has concerned both the governance of exempt organizations and the tax treatment of philanthropy. Sugin is the 2007 recipient of Fordham Law School's Teacher of the Year Award. Seminar Topic: Legal Issues Concerning Collections. Program and Curriculum Consultants Kris Anderson, Director, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of WashingtonLeonie Bradbury, Director & Curator, Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art
Philip Nowlen, Director, the Getty Leadership Institute
Elizabeth Easton, Co-Founder and Director, Center for Curatorial Leadership
Tony Hirschel, Director, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Carin Jacobs, Director, Center for the Arts, Religion and Education, Graduate Theological Union
Thomas Lentz, Director, Harvard Art Museums
Lynn Marsden-Atlass, Director, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
Sherry Maurer, Director, Augustana College Museum of Art
Dan Mills, Director, Bates College Museum of Art
Michiko Okaya, Director, Williams Center Gallery, Lafayette College
Kimerly Rorschach, Director, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University
Barbara Rothermel, Director, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College
Stefan Sommer, Director, Colorado Plateau Biodiversity Center, Northern Arizona University
Robert E. Steele, Executive Director, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland
Russell Taylor, President and CEO, National Arts Strategies
Brent Tharp, Director, Georgia Southern University Museum
Lisa Tremper Hanover, Director, Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College
Stephanie Wiles, Director, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Stephen Whittington, Director, Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University