Advising on all matters in the wheelhouse of experienced nonprofit CEOs, COOs, trustees
Management and Governance
- Interim executive management
- Crisis and change management, including turnarounds
- Board strengthening and development
- Close collaboration with key funders
- Organizational design, team-building, and executive coaching
- Exhibitions marketing, including wide-ranging audience engagement strategies
Planning
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- Exhibition tours, representing the Mucha Foundation (Prague) circulating Mucha-centered exhibitions to art museums in North America and abroad
- Immersive exhibition tours, representing the Grand Palais Immersif (Paris) circulating immersive art and art-related exhibitions to art, history, science, and civic museums in North America and abroad
- Eternal Mucha
- Venice Revealed
- Mona Lisa
- Pompeii
- Street Art, from Streets to Screens (forthcoming December 2023)
- Long-range strategic planning, including
- Start-ups
- DEI and Covid-19 pandemic response (2021-23 plan for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; read it here)
- Digital strategies (read about David’s leadership bridging mission and technology)
- Facilities planning and construction
- Major new construction and renovation projects (read about the new Arts and Education Complex at Oregon State University)
- Supervising architects, project managers, and contractors
Fundraising and Government Relations
- Personally raised $50M+ for technology, building/renovation, endowment, education
- Individuals, foundations, corporations, government – local and national
- 30+ year public/private partnership with Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board in construction and operation of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Finance
- Maximizing earned and auxiliary revenues
- Right-sizing budgets
- Long-range financial modeling
- Outstanding short- and long-term operating performance