Retaining Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Board Members

 (This video runs 56:05) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Facing Change: Building Board Diversity—Retention (Slide Deck) Intent vs. Impact Museum Board Annual Self-Evaluation Guiding Question As you begin …

Supporting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees

(This video runs 41:50) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Intercultural Development Inventory Guidance for IDI Pairs (Activity) Boarding, Building, Belonging (Slide Deck) Guiding Question How do we keep …

Recruiting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees

(This video runs 50:34) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Museum Board Recruitment Matrix Museum Board Prospective Interviews Guiding Question Once we have reached out to potential new board members and …

Onboarding Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees

(This video runs 39:08) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Stages of Team Development Onboarding for New Trustees Guiding Question Once a new recruit has agreed to join the board, how can we make the …

Attracting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees

(This video runs 39:11) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Museum Network Expansion Visits Museum Stakeholder Identification Guiding Question How do we attract a racially and ethnically diverse range of …

The 3 Cs of Inclusive Communications for Museums

Employee expectations of leadership and organizational communications has changed significantly in the past few years. What does it take to communicate effectively with staff, particularly around issues of diversity, equity, accessibility, …

A DEAI Change Management Roadmap for Museums

Are you a museum leader who’s feeling lost and overwhelmed by DEAI? Wish someone would draw you a map? Brevity & Wit’s Senior Consultant Jakob Wolf-Barnett has! In this one-hour webinar, he helps museum leaders understand …

Building Equity: K-12 Education in Museums

Watch this engaging conversation between Keahe Davis, Ah-Young Kim, Kelly Williams, and Tara Young as they discuss the state of museums and K-12 education. They talk about where we are and where we are going toward making museum and K-12 …

Designing an Equitable Recruiting Process

Download a PDF copy of this tip sheet. This tip sheet was developed with the help of Katherine McNamee, the Director of Human Resources for the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and is based on practices from several organizations …

AAM’s Strategic Framework: A Progress Report

Whether you’re new to the museum field or have been around for decades, you’ve probably noticed that the watchword of this moment is “change.” Our museums, which have conservation in their DNA, are increasingly focused on becoming dynamic, …

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