ANNE W. ACKERSON


Lead. By Design. 

Guiding nonprofits toward organizational excellence by leading with purpose
using creative problem solving, goal setting
and collaboratively developing pathways for achievement.
  
 


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CURRENT PROJECTS

Strategic Planning 


January 2010: Members of the Ticonderoga Historical Society board work in small groups to refine goals
and strategies as part of
an intensive strategic planning retreat.

  • Cayuga Museum of History & Art (Auburn, NY)
  • Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum
  • Livingston County Historical Society
  • The Ontario County Historical Society (Canandaigua, NY)
  • John Burroughs Association  (West Hyde Park, NY)

Development Audit

  • Friends of Raynham Hall (Oyster Bay)

Organizational Development Activities

  • Voelker Orth Museum (Flushing)
  • Town of Warwick Historical Society

Team Facilitation

  • Partnership for Albany Stories, a collaboration among historical and
    cultural organizations to develop and share a comprehensive and compelling story of Albany’ rich history that deepens the public’s understanding of the city’s role in the development of New York State and the nation.

Visioning


Seneca Falls Historical Society
Visioning Retreat, October 2010

Visioning Your Career Session at the 2012 NYS Museums in Conversation Conference
Visioning Your Career Session at the 2012 NYS Museums in Conversation Conference, Albany

Writing Projects

  • Strategizing Me. Making a Personal Career Plan, is my chapter in the just-published book, A Life in Museums:  Managing Your Museum Career. 
  • Leadership Matters: Conversations with History Museum Leaders, a series of profiles exploring successful leadership in 21st-century history museums. Written with Joan H. Baldwin, this book will be published by AltaMira Press in 2013 under the American Association for State and Local History imprint.
  • "The History Museum in New York State: A Growing Sector Built on Scarcity Thinking," was published in the August 2011 issue of The Public Historian (Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 18-37).




RESOURCES

Articles

Templates/Useful Stuff

  • Planning

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