S.C. Arts Leadership Institute

2024 Leadership Institute

• December 3-5, 2024
• Clemson, SC
• Clemson University Madren Conference Center
  • 230 Madren Center Dr., Clemson SC 29634
• $315/registrant
  • All meals and lodging during ALI schedule are included.
  • Apply for an Arts Project Support grant to defray cost.
  • Scholarships are available for arts grantees of the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
• Please register only one representative per organization. This will enable more arts organizations to benefit from the retreat.
  • If we can accept additional representatives from your organization, notice will be sent on Oct. 2.

The registration deadline passed for this year’s retreat.

• Sponsors

  

  

• Schedule

  Tuesday, Dec. 3
  4:00 p.m.	6:00 p.m.	Registration
  4:00 p.m.	5:45 p.m.	Welcome reception
  6:00 p.m.	7:00 p.m.	Dinner
  7:15 p.m.	8:45 p.m.	Opening Session with Wideman Davis Dance
  9:00 p.m.	10:00 p.m.	Networking
  Wednesday, Dec. 4
  7:00 a.m.	8:30 a.m.	Drop-In Breakfast
  8:45 a.m.	9:15 a.m.	Welcome Remarks
  9:15 a.m.	10:30 a.m.	Keynote: 1,000 Words
  10:40 a.m.	11:55 a.m.	Breakout 1 (2 sessions)
  Noon	1:00 p.m.	Lunch
  1:15 p.m.	2:30 p.m.	Breakout 2 (2 sessions)
  2:45 p.m.	3:45 p.m.	Leading with Accessibility in Mind with Able SC
  3:45 p.m.	6:00 p.m.	Free time
  6:00 p.m.	7:00 p.m.	Dinner
  7:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	Talent Show
  8:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	Networking
  Thursday, Dec. 5
  7:00 a.m.	8:20 a.m.	Drop-In Breakfast
  8:40 a.m.	8:50 a.m.	Travel to Brooks Center
  9:00 a.m.	9:45 a.m.	Brief Tour of Brooks Center including Lee Gallery installation/exhibition
  9:45 a.m.	10:30 a.m.	Panel Discussion
  10:30 a.m.	11:00 a.m.	Arts Advocacy with S.C. Arts Alliance; Jeff Robinson, Executive Director
  11:00 a.m.	11:10 a.m.	Closing remarks
  11:20 a.m.	11:30 a.m.	Travel to Madren Center
  11:30 a.m.		Depart

• Topics & Issues

  Keynote presentation

  1000 Words
  with Dr. Patrick Jinks

  What makes a good photograph? For award-winning professional photographer and board-certified leadership coach Dr. Patrick Jinks, the answer is that it tells a story. But in his case, it tells a leadership story. In this inspiring keynote, Patrick will share what his photography has taught him about leadership and vice versa. Participants will view some of Patrick’s favorite photos through the lens of leadership. What does a 5-year-old girl have to do with being open to multiple solutions? What does a wedding have to do with comfort? What does the Goodyear blimp have to do with risk management? Patrick entertains, informs, and inspires his audience simultaneously.

  Workshops

  1000 Words Coaching Session
  with Dr. Patrick Jinks
  

  • Building on his 1000 Words keynote, Patrick Jinks will facilitate a real-time leadership coaching session with the attendees. Leaders will interact with one another while building leader plan tenets to take home and implement. With a photographic context to inspire them, the leader plans will shape a path toward the leaders’ intentions around preparation, mastery, risk assessment, prioritization, ideation, presence, and even self-care.

  Building Your Dream Team
  with Erin Hall

  • Hiring and developing a high-performing team is the single most critical strategic goal that a leader can have for their organization. This session will focus on how to think about your talents, experiences, skills and role and how to build a team of professionals who not only support the work of the organization but support your vision. We will touch on diversity, equity and bias mitigation in the hiring process, retention of staff, difficult hiring situations and on-boarding/engagement of new hires.

  This workshop will be interactive, inviting participants to ask questions and share examples of hiring challenges they’ve experienced so that the group can offer potential solutions, while the presenter provides best practices.

  “Building Your Dream Team” is designed to engage executive directors and CEOs and will teach best practices for hiring the best possible staff for your team—and how to keep them.

  Participants will leave with ideas for how to design their hiring process regardless of the size of their organization. They will take away actionable next steps so that they can achieve their goals of a high-functioning team that leads their organization to the next level.

  Learning objectives:

  • How to build a hiring process that involves the right members of your organization.
  • How to mitigate bias in hiring and work toward inclusive excellence.
  • How to onboard new team members and keep them engaged.

• Speakers

  Patrick Jinks, Ph.D., BCC

  • Keynote speaker
  • Workshop facilitator

  As an award-winning professional photographer, Dr. Patrick Jinks knows the value of viewing challenges through the right lenses to achieve success. After a successful 22-year career in organizational leadership, Patrick changed lenses to serve leaders from another perspective. Today, he coaches and trains leaders in both the social and corporate sectors. Patrick is a multi-best-selling author and member of the National Association of Experts, Writers, and Speakers.

  With a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, Patrick regularly contributes to Forbes.com as a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He is a Board-Certified Coach, certified adjunct coach and trainer with Leadership Systems, Inc., and certified Influencer™ trainer with VitalSmarts®. He is also certified as an Academy of Choice coach. He is a teaching supporter of the Right Question Institute and holds a Harvard Business School Certificate in using the Question Formulation Technique™.

  Patrick has been featured as a GameChanger® and a Master of Success® in USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, respectively, for his fresh take on nonprofit strategy and leadership through The Strategic Coaching Continuum™.  He was recognized as one of the Top 10 Most Influential People in Leadership Coaching by CIO Views Magazine, and as one of the 10 Most Successful Leadership Coaches to Watch in 2024 by Enterprise Wired Magazine. His speaking stages range from The Citadel to Universal Studios, and from TEDx to the United Nations. Patrick’s globally acclaimed podcast, “The Leadership Window,” is a Feedspot top-10 podcast for social sector leadership.

  Patrick’s rapid success as a coach earned him a spot as keynote speaker at the Global LEAP Summit and an invitation to co-author Taking the Leap: How to Build a World-Class Coaching Business, along with such master coaches as Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Thompson, Marc Steinberg, and Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield. Patrick’s work with Canfield on their second collaborative book, Success Starts Today, achieved Amazon best-seller status in its first week and earned Patrick an Editor’s Choice Award from CelebrityPress™ for his  contribution. Patrick’s signature solo work is Strategic Fail: Why Nonprofit Strategic Planning Fails, and How to Fix It, which premiered on Amazon as a #1 new release in February 2018. The 2nd edition is currently in development.

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  Erin Hall

  • Workshop facilitator

  Erin Hall joined Spelman Johnson following two decades in leadership of health and human services nonprofits. Formerly, Erin served as the chief development officer for Hopeful Horizons in Beaufort, South Carolina. Hopeful Horizons is a children’s advocacy, domestic violence and rape crisis center that works to create safer communities by changing the culture of violence and offering a path to healing.

  Prior to joining Hopeful Horizons, Erin served as chief executive officer of the Palmetto Association for Children and Families (PAFCAF) in Columbia, South Carolina. PAFCAF is a statewide membership association of approximately 50 organizations providing out-of-home care and community-based prevention services to foster children in South Carolina. Erin was responsible for monitoring state and federal legislation impacting children and families, managing partnerships with multiple state agencies, including contract negotiations, rate reimbursement, training, and technical assistance.

  She came to the CEO role at PAFCAF after serving six years as the executive director of Palmetto Place Children’s Shelter, where she provided executive leadership for a residential home for foster children and homeless teens. At Palmetto Place she supervised a staff of 40 and undertook a two-year capital campaign for renovation of the existing shelter home and the purchase of a second location for the organization. Erin has provided significant leadership in the cultivation of relationships with donors, community groups, and lead volunteers to increase both fundraising efforts and volunteer efforts across the nonprofits that she led.

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  Thaddeus Davis (l) and Tanya Wideman-Davis (r).

  Wideman Davis Dance

  Tanya Wideman-Davis is the co-director of Wideman Davis Dance and is on the University of South Carolina faculty as an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance and African American Studies Program. She continues to perform, research, choreograph, teach, and collaborate; her academic and choreographic research, as well as her speaking, examine race, gender, femininity, identity, and location. This research grounds her choreographic method and performances and challenges the traditional methodologies and ideologies of classical ballet.

  Tanya has danced with many world-renowned companies, including Dance Theater of Harlem (1993-1998 and principal dancer, 2000-2002) and The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago (1990-2000). She has taught as a guest artist at schools and universities across the U.S. and abroad.

  Tanya has received critical acclaim as a performer, noted by New York Dance Fax as “distinctive for the power of her secure pointe work and her personality.” She has received international acclaim and was honored as “Best Female Dancer of 2001-2002” by Dance Europe magazine. Tanya trained with many of the premier schools in the country including: The Academy of Movement and Music, The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, The Joffrey Ballet School, The Pacific Northwest Ballet School, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Chicago City Ballet, and The Dance Theatre of Harlem. Tanya completed her Master of Fine Arts from Hollins University/ADF.

  Thaddeus Davis is the co-director of Wideman Davis Dance and is on faculty as an associate professor at the University of South Carolina. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Butler University in 1993 and Master of Fine Arts from Hollins University/ADF in 2011. After an extensive performing career with leading professional companies, he continues to perform, research, choreograph, collaborate, and teach.

  His current research explores the intersections of gender, class, race, and technology through an African American lens. His research is reflected in his choreography, writings, films, lectures, and panel presentations including: Migratuse Ataraxia (2021-2016), Choreographers in the Commons Sipping Coffee (2019), Female Relationships: The Gender Gap in Dance (2012), A Dissembled Life (2011), Dance Theatre of Harlem: Modernism, History, Culture (2011), and Balance (2009).

  In addition to collaborative awards with Tanya Wideman-Davis, Thaddeus has received multiple honors and grants for his work including: cultural envoy to Portugal, U.S. State Department (2007); Highlight of the Arts Season, Commercial Appeal, Memphis (2006); winner of The New American Talent Choreographers Competition, Ballet Austin (2005); Choo San Goh Award for Choreography (2004); Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2002); Best Premiere of the Season, Dance Europe, Once Before, Twice After (2002-03); New York Times Top Ten Dance Highlights of the season, Once Before, Twice After (2002), and Butler University’s “50 Under 50” (2004).

  Thaddeus performed with many renowned companies including Donald Byrd/The Group (1998-2002), Dance Theater of Harlem (1994-1998), Complexions Contemporary Ballet (1995-2005), Fugate/Bahiri Ballet NY Dance Galaxy (2000-2002), Indianapolis Ballet (1991-1993), Fukuoka City Ballet (1995), and Atlanta Dance Theater (1988).