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NextGen is 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.
Offered either at the Getty Center in Los Angeles or at an East Coast location.
NextGen addresses the leadership-management continuum for museum professionals. The program stresses the importance of realistic self-assessment, negotiating opportunities, learning from all assignments, combining energy with focus, and securing appropriate mentors. Emphasis is placed on broad institutional perspectives, leading from any position, and strengthening ones own intellectual curiosity.
The program begins with an intensive look at oneself in support of developing a personalized professional learning agenda. Alongside fellow peer mentors, the program continues by examining one's role within a museum, the nature of teams, and the power of inquiry as influence—and speaks to greater institutional needs and the future of the field at large. The aim is to push through old habits and individual viewpoints to gain insights—develop new ways of thinking and behaving in order to understand the broader strategic context for oneself and for a museum.
Faculty members, a group of dedicated senior museum executives in the field and experts in executive education, stay over the course of the program to facilitate rich conversations in a confidential, collegial environment. Readings, exercises, and individual case study work introduce participants to key leadership fundamentals for long term sustainability.
Learning at NextGen is both personally intensive and collaborative. Before you arrive, your studies begin with pre-program assignments that include several discussions with others in your institution. Most notably, you will conduct a thorough self-analysis aimed at helping you understand your personal leadership style.
After arrival, the program demands complete commitment and immersion. NextGen's effectiveness comes from the time participants and faculty devote to one another, learning together from morning to evening throughout the program. Our venue provides an ideal setting for thinking, exploration and transformation. Housing will be available nearby for communal dining, group study and private reflection.
The tuition fee for NextGen is $1,500. All participants are provided with meals for the duration of the program, and all course materials. Travel to Los Angeles or Boston, housing, and incidental expenses are not included. Because some individuals and institutions may not be able to bear the entire tuition fee, GLI may be able to provide scholarship or travel assistance to those whose ability to attend this program is limited by financial constraints.
The program is open to exceptional junior staffers who have demonstrated critical thinking, innovative practice and leadership within their institutions, and typically have a minimum of three years of challenging work experience in museums. Museum directors and senior executives are not eligible. Admission is competitive.
Applications open on March 3, 2009 and are accepted through June 2, 2009.
To apply, read the guidelines below and return in March 2009 when the application forms become available online.
Since its inception in 2004, NextGen has served over 100 museum professionals from the United States and five countries worldwide.
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