What we do

Partners in Performance helps people advance their leadership work in ways that contribute to increased effectiveness, healthier organizations, and greater impact. We sit side by side with leaders helping them identify their most complex challenges, facilitate honest, focused engagement across the organization and coach leaders in moving the organization forward with purpose and foresight. Read more about our Strategic Planning work plus the inspiring leaders and wondrous organizations with whom we work.

Jaime DeMott, Community Music School of MSU College of Music and Yolanda Wisher, Mural Arts Program share ideas during CAELI, one of our flagship leadership development programs. 

As with CAELI, we bring leaders together from different organizations and across sectors to create intensive and rewarding learning environments where leaders reflect on their own practice, gain insight into their strengths and preferences, and understand how to increase their effectiveness. Read more our Leadership Development programs and our range of leadership learning experiences.

We design and facilitate fruitful engagements where field-wide leaders engage in dialogue around policy development, recent trends,  big dilemmas and even bigger opportunities, all structured in ways that generate useful responses to some of the most critical, and often most vexing challenges presented by the "new normal." Read more about some of our recent Facilitation engagements.

Dig Deeper!

Check out newly selected resources on Innovation and Leadership. We've recently added articles and videos by Richard Evans, Henry Mintzberg, and Don Schmincke.

Updated April 4, 2012.

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Check out Simon Sinek’s simple yet powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with the question, "Why?". It's a terrific TED Talks Video.

South Arts recently released Creative Industries in the South, a creative economy research report. The study includes analysis of the region in aggregate, as well as creative industries profiles for the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Check it out.

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New Clients

KidZNotes

We are delighted to be working with Executive Director, Katie Wyatt and Leadership Planning Committee Chair, Adam Preyer in a visioning and planning process for KidZNotes, an El Sistema based community arts organization in Durham, NC. On March 21, over a scrumptious meal at 604 West Morgan, Katie and Adam led the Board---a number of whom had just returned from a national gathering of US based El Sistema inspired programs---through the key plan components. Now it’s on to create the first nucleo!

Off-Center (@ the Jones): Denver Center Theatre Company

Part hangout, part theatre, and fully committed to incubating new ways of making and engaging the arts, Off Center (@ the Jones) is a wondrously innovative inspiration at the Denver Center Theatre Company. Charlie Miller, Emily Tarquin, and Amy Allison, along with a diverse and dedicated Task Force are leading the effort to shape up the first three years of Off-Center…as a ‘test kitchen’ for new ideas and new entry points into the world of theatre. We’re thrilled by this engagement as we’re learning so much about how the relationship between those who make theatre and those who go to theatre are reinventing their relationships to one another!

Levine Museum of the New South

Charlotte’s Levine Museum of the New South, the Atlanta History Center, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute are collaborating through the Museum Lab to develop a ‘learning network’ dedicated to increasing engagement with Latino communities across the South. As part of the Museum Lab, supported by the MetLife Foundation and administered by EmcArts, the Innovation Team will be gathering with John at the Airlie Center in early May to develop their innovative engagement methodology. Also participating in the Lab are the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, and our dear friends at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco!

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