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The Getty Leadership Institute (GLI) offers professional development opportunities throughout the year for current and future leaders in the museum field. All GLI programs address leadership, management and policy issues affecting the cultural sector. The program content and format varies according to roles participants play in museums for each program.

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MLI: The Museum Leadership Institute
An in-depth residential leadership program designed both to enhance the leadership of experienced museum executives and strengthen their institutions capabilities. For directors and senior executives who influence policy, effect change and have a minimum of five years of challenging work experience in museums.

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Taking the Helm: First Months as a Museum CEO
This program is led by seasoned museum directors and outstanding academics, all of whom have given careful thought to the steps professionals take in successfully negotiating the transition to the CEO role. For those who have recently accepted or assumed a directorship in the museum field for the first time.

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Board Chairs and Directors: Partners in Leadership If any one relationship is crucial for an institution as complex as a museum, it is the strategic relationship between the Board Chair and the Director. This program was specifically designed to fortify this relationship and, in turn, to strengthen institutional goals. For museum director and board chair pairs.

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Museum Leaders: the Next Generation
A program dedicated to developing the career potential of exceptional junior staff with a minimum of three years of work experience in museums. We seek those identified by senior executives as the field's most promising talent, individuals already responding impressively to added responsibilities.

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Occasional Programs
Other programs such as short restorative seminars for museum directors focused on topical issues and a series of conversations designed to acculturate senior executives new to the museum field.

What's New

New to your first Directorship post? See our Taking the Helm program.

MLI 2009 dates

NextGen 2009 dates


See Also

See our Cultural Organizations and Changing Leisure Trends blog archives.

Getty Foundation grants available to museums


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