The NEW SCHOOL LAUNCHES "THE FOUNDER'S STUDIO"
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"Confidently handing over the reins of an organization is one of the greatest challenges of a nonprofit founder's career," said Mark Lipton, Director of the Tenenbaum Leadership Initiative. "The Founder's Studio offers a rare opportunity for social entrepreneurs to address leadership transition head-on with private conversation, open discussions, and input from the Milano School's management experts and others." Taking place from April 27, 2012 to April 29 on a scenic private estate in Massachusetts' Berkshire Mountains, The Founder's Studio builds on previous TLI programs that have trained executive directors taking over from founders. "Over the past eight years, the TLI has helped guide scores of incoming leaders develop new visions while building on their predecessors' accomplishments," Lipton said. "With The Founder's Studio, we are moving to the next logical step: Helping founders step down, and leave behind them a thriving, sustainable operation." The Founder's Studio represents a unique partnership between faculty at the Milano School with clinical staff from the Erikson Institute at the eminent Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Combined, they bring deep expertise and insight to management succession and psychological transition. Since 2004 the Milano School's TLI has offered intensive management and strategy development to leaders from across the non-profit sector. With a unique approach that has been profiled in The Financial Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and the Non-Profit Times, the TLI has provided tuition-free opportunities to more than 50 executive directors from diverse organizations including The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Advocates for Children, and Sustainable South Bronx. The TLI is funded and remains tuition-free through a generous grant from Ann Tenenbaum and Tom Lee. The Founder's Studio is offered exclusively to founder-leaders of non-profit organizations who are considering stepping down within the next 18 months and seeking ways to assure the transition is a seamless one. For more information, and to apply for one of the cohort's eight places, write Mark Lipton at [email protected] or visit the TLI's webpage. The Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy trains the next generation of global change leaders. Part of The New School for Public Engagement, Milano offers graduate education in environmental policy and sustainability management, international affairs, nonprofit management, organizational change management and public policy. One of the nation's leading centers for the study of civic issues, Milano is home to institutes including the Center for New York City Affairs, the Community Development Finance Lab, and the Observatory on Latin America (OLA). For more information, visit newschool.edu/milano. |
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