Distributed Leadership Feedback Sessions

Our feedback sessions are designed to help organizations cultivate a distributed or shared leadership culture, where power and decision-making is inclusive and equitable.

Bridge Live Arts developed from a deep commitment to distributed leadership and equity. We understand that communication and dialogue with others in and outside our field are essential to putting dance in dialogue with movements for social change and supporting dance in dialogue with the world. In support of our communities, we seek to help you transform your organization into one where distributed leadership, equity, and inclusion are not just goals but realities.

Bridge Live Arts’ staff does not consider ourselves experts in these areas, and as an organization, our model continues to shift and evolve. Still, we acknowledge the hard and challenging work we have done to distribute leadership, and we have found that others can benefit from our experiences and feedback.

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Key Areas of Focus

Distributing Power

True shared leadership requires a fundamental shift in how power is allocated and exercised within an organization

Our feedback sessions can support you by:

Sharing structures and processes to help identify methods to share and map power across all group, project, or organization levels.
Speaking to creating opportunities for underrepresented groups to take on leadership roles to help foster a collaborative environment where all team members can contribute.
Discussing decision-making frameworks and resources.

Pay Equity & Financial Transparency

Equitable pay and financial transparency are foundational to trust and fairness in any organization.

Our feedback sessions can support you by:

Sharing segments of our process and research to move from pay equality to pay equity.
Discussing transparent compensation policies and practices.
Sharing resources and findings from our workshops and series on financial transparency.

How Much Does a Session Cost?

B.L.A. is committed to making our sessions accessible and affordable for artists. Although these consultations are not sliding scale at this moment, we hope to offer additional pay-what-you-can public workshops on this topic in the future.

TWO STAFF MEMBERS

$150 per hour

THREE STAFF MEMBERS

$200 per hour

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Learn more about our "Shifting Towards Models of Equity."

An interview with Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr, and Karla Quintero by Stance on Dance.

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Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr, Karla Quintero (L to R), Photo by Ulysses Ortega

TESTIMONIALS

“B.L.A.’s approached its restructure or better, transformation, to a distributive leadership model centered in cultural equity, with honesty, vulnerability, and unwavering commitment to centering artists’ voices and dismantling white supremacy. The deeply engaged community process was generous, spacious, and itself movement. B.L.A. distributed real power to artists through financial resources, creative decision-making, and governance. I have not seen an organization transform power so completely as they have. It was their desire from the start of the process to be an exemplar in the dance community of how this is done. And they achieved it! Their intimate knowledge of what it takes to distribute leadership/power and their deliberate focus on organizational learning in order to share with others, makes them a primary go to resource.”

Safi Jiroh, Executive Director, LeaderSpring Center

Header Image: Hope Mohr, Cherie Hill, Rebecca Fitton (L to R), Photo by Dale Dong

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