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Firm Overview
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Arts Consulting Group (ACG) is the leading provider of hands-on interim management, executive search, revenue enhancement, facilities & program planning, and organizational development services for the arts and culture industry. ACG consultants are located in communities throughout North America to best serve the needs of its clients. With decades of senior leadership experience in every artistic and cultural discipline and area of functional management, ACG team members will match your passion and energy like no other organization. Delivering high-performance ideas from the most trusted and knowledgeable minds in the arts and culture world, the firm can quickly help you achieve results. ACG is the best choice to help transform your institution and enhance the communities you serve, providing your organization with the perfect blend of local perspective and international expertise.
Mission Vision ACG’s mission is to support and strengthen a sustainable and ACG’s vision is to be known for the highest quality personalized vibrant arts and culture community by offering customized and services and ethical standards, recognized as a significant integrated professional management consulting services. intellectual resource to the industry, and respected for breadth
of experience and depth of knowledge in all cultural disciplines and functional areas of expertise.
Core Values ACG is guided by its core values that enable clients and consultants to CREATE amazing cultural, educational, and social experiences!
Commitment to the wellbeing of our clients and consultants Recognition as an intellectual resource to the field Experience in and for this unique industry Appreciation for arts and cultural communities everywhere Trusted as a partner, mentor, coach, and colleague Ethical standards that are second to none
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Services Overview
Interim Management Facilities & Program Planning The show must go on despite leadership changes. A Community support and a cultural legacy takes careful smooth transition with ACG can lead to even greater planning, from initial project concept to grand opening, credibility and financial support. and deep expertise you are unlikely to find at any one firm except ACG. Executive Search The quest to find the perfect person to fit your organization can be a daunting task. For ACG clients, Organizational Development it is an exciting opportunity. The strongest arts and culture organizations have something others do not: A unified board of community Revenue Enhancement ambassadors, a powerful vision that resonates with stakeholders, and a resilient management team. Let Most arts and culture organizations are skilled at ACG guide you there. stretching dollars. ACG is skilled at maximizing resources with powerful methods for fundraising and marketing. Arts Insights Publications Looking for inspiration, best practices, new ideas, and Donor Research & Planning free advice on the top management and governance Are you leaving money on the table? Not if you are with standards in the arts and culture field? Arts Insights is ACG. Our in-depth tools can uncover a wealth of ACG’s free monthly publication for the arts and culture individual and institutional funding opportunities. industry.
Selected ACG Performing Arts Center Clients
Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society The Center for the Performing Arts The Lensic Performing Arts Center Calgary, AB Carmel, IN Santa Fe, NM
Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society Irvine Barclay Theatre Park Avenue Armory Calgary, AB Irvine, CA New York, NY
Arsenal Center for the Arts The Lensic Performing Arts Center Quick Center for the Arts Watertown, MA Santa Fe, NM Fairfield, CT
Arts Center & Theater Lincoln Center for the Santa Barbara Center of Schenectady Performing Arts for Performing Arts Schenectady, NY New York, NY Santa Barbara, CA
Arvada Center for the Arts Marathon Center for Sharon Lynne Wilson and Humanities the Performing Arts Center for the Arts Arvada, CO Findlay, OH Brookfield, WI
AT&T Performing Arts Center McCallum Theatre Smith Center for the Performing Arts Dallas, TX Palm Springs, CA Las Vegas, NV
Boston Center for the Arts Mesa Arts Center South Orange Performing Arts Center Boston, MA Mesa, AZ South Orange, NJ
The Center for the Performing Arts The Music Hall Spruce Peak Arts Center Carmel, IN Portsmouth, NH Stowe, VT
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Norris Center for State Theatre New Jersey College Park, MD the Performing Arts New Brunswick, NJ Rolling Hills, CA Columbia Theatre for Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza the Performing Arts Old School Square Thousand Oaks, CA Hammond, LA Cultural Arts Center Wallis Annenberg Center for Delray Beach, FL Grand Performances the Performing Arts Los Angeles, CA Opera House Theater & Beverly Hills, CA Performing Arts Center Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Walton Arts Center Newport, RI San Antonio, TX Fayetteville, AR
Marathon Center for the Performing Arts Park Avenue Armory Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts Findlay, OH New York, NY Brookfield, WI
Meet ACG’s Performing Arts Center Experts
Bruce D. Thibodeau, DBA Rebekah Lambert President – Boston and Toronto Senior Vice President – Portland Dr. Thibodeau founded ACG in 1997 and, as Ms. Lambert joined ACG in 2009 with more its President, has been embedded in than 19 year of experience in performing arts numerous projects in all practice areas to grow management, board development, policy institutional sustainability, advance the arts formulation, artistic administration, operations, and culture sector, and enhance communities and program planning. Ms. Lambert began her served by this vibrant industry. He has guided career in arts management with positions at hundreds of clients in achieving effective the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Young leadership transitions, planning cultural facilities, increasing Musicians Foundation. After completing the League of American revenues, developing dynamic institutional brands and messages, Orchestra’s Orchestra Management Fellowship, she held positions crafting strategic plans and business models, and revitalizing board with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and Symphony of governance practices. Dr. Thibodeau has conducted extensive Southeast Texas. Ms. Lambert also served as Executive Director research in a threefold exploration of stakeholders, nonprofit arts of the Eugene Symphony, where she completed eight concert management, and cultural facility project management to highlight seasons with surpluses and doubled the orchestra’s endowment how stakeholders influence, and are influenced by, the activities fund. Ms. Lambert holds a bachelor of music degree from the and practices of nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Dr. University of California, Santa Barbara, master of business Thibodeau holds a doctorate of business administration from the administration from the Yale School of Organization and Grenoble Ecole de Management, a master of business Management, and strategic management certificate from The administration from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at George Washington University and Strategy Management Group. Babson College, and a bachelor of music from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford. Jenna Deja Vice President – Chicago Martin Bragg With more than 17 years of experience working with arts and culture organizations, Senior Vice President – Calgary Ms. Deja specializes in increasing earned and Mr. Bragg joined ACG in 2015, bringing a wide contributed revenue, developing diverse range of experience in presenting, producing, programs, and fostering collaborative and managing large arts and culture relationships with board and staff. She organizations with a focus on organizational previously spent 12 years at The Second City, development, strategic planning, and where she increased touring production revenues by 85 percent, sustained growth in earned and contributed oversaw a $4 million facility renovation, and revitalized ticket sales revenue. His career spans more than 30 years, strategies. She has co-produced more than 20 critically and including Executive Director positions at the Alberta Ballet, commercially successful shows with some of the country’s most Vancouver Playhouse, and Canadian Stage Company. At venerable theaters, including Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Canadian Stage, he worked both in the nonprofit and for-profit Actors Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Goodman sectors and was responsible for creating innovative partnerships Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Center Theatre with companies across Canada, the United States, England, and Group, and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Ms. Deja holds a Ireland. He has served as President of PACT Communications bachelor of arts degree, graduating with honors from Muhlenberg Centre, Vice Chair of the Professional Association of Canadian College. Theatres, National Chair of the Equity negotiating committee, and is founding member of the Minister’s Advisory Counsel for Arts and Culture for the Province of Ontario. Victor Gotesman Vice President – Portland Elisabeth B. Galley Mr. Gotesman is an arts administrator with more than 40 years of experience working in Senior Vice President – Dallas performing arts organizations. Prior to joining Ms. Galley has more than 30 years of ACG, he served as Executive Director of ODC experience in fundraising and development for in San Francisco, where he was responsible nonprofit arts and culture organizations. for all aspects of the organization’s $5.7 million Leading ACG's Revenue Enhancement budget. He was also the President and practice, her areas of expertise include capital Principal-in-Charge of major feasibility studies and planning campaign feasibility, strategy, management, projects at Theater Projects Consultants (TPC). While at TPC, he and implementation as well as maximizing acted as lead consultant on numerous projects, including facility major gift and annual fund programs. Ms. Galley has served as redevelopment master plans, cultural facility studies and program Chief Development Officer at the Perot Museum of Nature and plans, and new performing arts center market feasibility studies. Science. Under her leadership, the museum finished its $185 His clients included the City of Dallas, Kodak Theater in Los million campaign one year ahead of schedule, enabling the new Angeles, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. As the first building to open three months early, on budget, and with a $19 Executive Director of the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in million endowment. During her five-year tenure, Ms. Galley Los Angeles, Mr. Gotesman developed dynamic programming in expanded the museum’s operating reserves by $26 million and the competitive Southern California market and created the doubled its contributed revenue to $4 million annually. Ms. Galley infrastructure, policies, and organizational design. He holds a holds a bachelor of arts in English and master of business master of fine arts in arts administration from the University of Iowa administration with an emphasis in marketing and nonprofit and a bachelor of arts in music from the University of administration from the University of Delaware. Rochester/Eastman School of Music.
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