October 27-29, 2023
Location TBC
New York City
This fall, The Orchard Project and The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group are once again combining their respective expertise in the arts and creating inclusive workplaces to continue the Orchard Project’sLeadership and Growth Intensive. The Leadership and Growth Intensive will support existing and aspiring leaders of various dramatic endeavors (theatre, TV and audio) to enhance their practice, develop additional skills, expand their networks and collaborations, and develop successful approaches to creating new work today and in the future.
Led by Frederick Miller and Judith Gail of KJCG (the oldest Organization Development firm in the US and experts in inclusive workplaces) and Ari Edelson (Founding Artistic Director of the Orchard Project), this workshop will feature core training, case studies on inclusive growth with entertainment industry leaders, and opportunities for project development by participants.
This intensive is specifically designed for established and aspiring producers, agents, artistic directors, board members and other leaders in the dramatic fields (theatre, TV, film, and audio) looking to combine an intensive workshop in trends in inclusive practice with a deep dive into how to apply a leadership approach into both personal growth and business growth.
The Orchard Project and KJCG Leadership and Growth Intensive will examine approaches to producing and supporting the production, distribution, and marketing of new work in a post-covid, digitally embraced, anti-racist, anti-isms reality. The goals of the Leadership Intensive will be to:
- Move the processes of the creative and performance world to an enhanced integration of financial needs/goals and the inclusion of human diversity in all its forms and experiences.
- Continue to open the creative and performance world to the full range of human diversity in leadership, thinking, creative output and participation.
- Enhance participants’ perceptions and understanding of self, their work, and the industry, in order to be more reflective of the human experience and diversity in the creative processes and outcomes.
- Learn how to move one’s work at a faster pace, adapting to evolving field creative processes and maximizing your contributions to the world.
- Explore ways to push back on thinking and acting that do not support diversity and inclusion by exploring obstacles and opportunities related to access.
The Leadership and Growth Intensive is both a networking opportunity for artistic leaders and an intensive growth workshop. It will explore two main questions:
- How can leaders move the entertainment and culture industry into a new post-covid, post-digital centric reality? Where are leaders finding opportunities for growth, equitable artistic vision, artistic success, diversity and inclusion, community, and mission-centric impact?
- What are possible problems and opportunities within the artistic fields that participants can identify and explore that will open doors to creators, patrons, attendees, the greater public to more expansive experience for all?
