The first session of Business on Board will cover the following topics:
“Your Future in the Arts, Our Future in the Commonwealth”
How Boards Work: Structure & Processes
Overview of Business On Board
Session Learning Objectives:
Gain knowledge of the Arts & Business Council mission and programs.
Understand the objectives of Business On Board, the program, and how to
access the many resources available to you.
Gain insight into the Boston arts organizations, their special
challenges and opportunities.
Identify key features that distinguish nonprofit from for-profit
organizations.
Understand how arts groups (may) differ from other nonprofit
organizations.
Describe how boards function, in terms of their typical structures and
processes.
Speakers:
Dan Hunter
Dan Hunter is the
executive director of the Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, and
Humanities (MAASH & MAASH-Ed), a statewide advocacy and education
group.� An award-winning playwright,
songwriter and humorist, Hunter also has 17 years’ experience in politics and
arts advocacy, serving as Director of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
(a cabinet appointment requiring Senate confirmation) and running a successful
advertising and political consultancy firm in Des Moines.
Hunter is the author of
two books, Let’s Keep Des Moines a Private Joke and The Search for Iowa (&
We Don’t Grow Potatoes). He has written several plays including Un Tango en La
Noche and La Mujer Sin Cara (The Woman without a Face). His play The Monkey
King was recently named a finalist for the 2004 Heideman Award from the Actors
Theatre of Louisville.� He is the composer
and writer of Picture Postcard Musicale, based on the texts of picture
postcards from 1906-1910. He has performed a one-man show of topical humor in
original song. He has made numerous radio and television appearances including
ABC’s Good Morning America, National Public Radio, BBC, and CNN Nightly News.
Hunter was managing
director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre at Boston University from 1999 to 2002,
and teaches creating writing at Boston University. He previously served in the
Iowa State Governor’s cabinet as Director of the Iowa Department of Cultural
Affairs.
From 1980 to 1997, he owned and operated Dan Hunter
Creative Services. Hunter was earned his B.A. from Hampshire College in
Amherst, MA and his M.A. from Boston University.
Joanne Zitek
Joanne
Zitek is the founder of Joanne Zitek Associates, a management consulting firm
specializing in issues of organization change, global diversity and board
development.� Joanne provides a full
range of consulting services to client organizations, including advising on
organization strategy, implementation and board development, as well as
conducting cultural audits, executive coaching, and the design, development and
facilitation of learning systems.
Joanne’s background includes
organization development; management, executive and professional development;
board development; recruitment and community relations. She has consulted to
corporations in the communications, financial services, healthcare,
engineering, publishing, transportation, consumer products, manufacturing, high
technology, and food industries, as well as to the U.S. government, and to
healthcare delivery systems, higher education and a wide range of other
nonprofit organizations.
Previously,
Joanne served as Senior Vice President of Center Focus International, Inc., a
consulting company that is nationally known for its work in organization change
and diversity.� In that capacity she
consulted to Fortune 100 and 500 companies, nonprofit organizations and
government entities.� Joanne also managed
the BoardBank of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, where she assisted over
55 nonprofit organizations to develop their boards of directors, many by
diversifying their boards racially and ethnically.� As Director of Management Development at Fidelity
Investments, Joanne created and managed a system to develop managers for a
national network of 60 investor centers.�
Joanne was also Manager of Professional Development for Bank of Boston
(now Bank of America), where she managed the design, development,
implementation, and evaluation of large-scale human resource development
systems to support business strategy.
Joanne has presented and conducted
workshops on intercultural dynamics to international audiences in Austria,
Belgium, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany and Japan, as well as throughout the
US.� She has consulted to an American
company acquired by a French company and has worked with the Canadian
government on a campaign to lure U.S. business operations to Canada.� She was the keynote speaker for a hospitality
industry conference on international intercultural business dynamics and has
conducted workshops on the intercultural aspects of international business for
the World Trade Institute.� Joanne
participated in a trade mission to Italy, and is a member of the network of
Italian and U.S. businesswomen that resulted from that mission.� She represented Massachusetts as a program
chair for the Partners of the Americas partnership with Antioquia,
Colombia.�
Joanne has co-authored articles on Multicultural
Teams and The Transcultural Organization, both published in 1995 in Cultural
Diversity at Work.� Her work with
boards has been featured in the Boston Business Journal and The
Boston Globe.� She is a member of the
Organization Development Network, the American Society for Training and
Development, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, WorldBoston, Women
in World Trade and the International Society for Intercultural Training,
Education and Research.� She holds a B.S.
from Cornell University and an Ed.M. from Boston University. �Joanne presently serves on the boards of the
Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, the Boston Natural Areas Network
and the Chinese Culture Connection.
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