DIY: Conduct a Business Lifestage Analysis to Evolve Your Arts Organization

Assessing your arts organization’s current Lifestages on the Arts Business Lifecycle is an essential step for evolving growth in preparation for strategic planning. This dynamic framework helps you create a vocabulary within your organization to identify evolutionary stages of your business: Idea to Start-up moving into Ground & Grow towards Maturity with recognition of Decline, Dissolution, and opportunities for Turnaround.

Gain insights from Dr. Amy Kweskin of Artsightful, an expert arts management consultant, author and educator. Amy is a Lifecycles Capacity Consultant certified by the Nonprofit Lifecycles Institute®.

Amy creates a safe and supportive learning environment in which she shares tools, frameworks and resources to help you gain insights into strategic planning. Plus, the group setting offers you the benefit of working and learning alongside peers. Amy creates a safe, confidential and supportive environment where you can thrive.

This workshop is part of Artsightful’s DIY Strategic Planning series where you learn to Do it Yourself without having to pay a consultant. Pick the workshops that work for you.

Online Session:

This is a single meeting, 3-hour online session with three meeting date and time options:

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from 2-5pm PT (5-7pm ET)

OR

Thursday, April 24, 2025 10am-1pm PT (1-3pm ET)

• Meets via Zoom.

• Content is presented in an interactive format.

• Two 10-minute breaks included in the session.

• Session will be recorded and accessible only to participants.

• For confidentiality, breakout sessions will not be recorded.

Content Covers:

• Identifying the purpose and impact of Lifestages on the Arts Business Lifecycle
• Assessing business functions and correlating Lifestages
• Defining growth as evolutionary stages for your arts organization
• Developing strategic planning Goals to evolve Lifestages
• Navigating turnarounds as natural rhythms in the organization’s Lifecycle

Recommended Participants:

Staff (paid or volunteer) and Board members of non-profit arts organizations that are considering strategic planning, are already in the planning process or are activating and evaluating an existing strategic plan.

Arts entrepreneurs who are starting an arts venture or working collaboratively to bring clarity to their existing arts business.

Do you work best in collaboration? Bring a colleague for half price and work as thinking partners in this highly reflective process.

Fee Notes:

Artsightful pays your Eventbrite fees.

Optional direct coaching with Amy will also be available for an additional fee.

Host or Publisher Amy Kweskin of Artsightful