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2024 Leadership institute 

April 7 - 12, 2024
The Galt House Hotel 
Louisville, Kentucky 

The application period for the 2024 Leadership Institute is now open!

All applications will be reviewed by the Leadership Institute Selection Committee.

Apply to be part of the 2024 Leadership Institute 

Applications will be accepted through November 3, 2023.

In preparation for the launch of the 2024 SEMC Leadership Institute application period, we asked several members of the 2022 Institute cohort to reflect on how participation in the program impacted their careers and professional growth. Special thanks to 2022 Leadership Institute graduates, Lance Wheeler, Stacey Thompson, Mary Hauser, Christine Anglin and Andrea Miskewicz for contributing their reflections in the video. Huge thanks (and kudos!) also go to Alan Wheat, Director of Education at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and graduate of the 2022 Leadership Institute, for editing all of the videos together. Y'all are awesome!


SEMC Leadership Institute: Leading for Today’s Challenges

The Southeastern Museum Conference (SEMC) offers a professional development program for future museum leaders that supports diversity and inclusion. 

Proudly developed in partnership with the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), this program is focused on leadership training for staff of small- and mid-sized institutions.

The 2024 Leadership Institute: Leading for Today’s Challenges aims to equip a new generation of museum leaders with outward-looking skills and strategies that increase their effectiveness as leaders and ability to create a productive and inclusive environment within the museum and among the museum’s board.

OBJECTIVES

The Southeastern Museums Conference Leadership Institute will develop a diverse and inclusive group of future museum leaders who:

• Can identify and build on their existing personal strengths

• Assess how to maximize these strengths internally in an organization and externally as part of a community

• Identify methods to capitalize on their strengths and their environment to move an institution forward

CURRICULUM AREAS

The curriculum, taught by leaders in their fields, covers six areas:

• Reflecting Your Best Self*

• Building Inclusive Cultures

• Strategic Communication and Thinking

• Leadership Challenges

• Adaptive Leadership

• Creating Your Best Self as an Organization

*Using the Reflective Best Self Tool

MEET THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FACULTY.

SEMC Executive Director, Zinnia Willits, with Leadership Institute Faculty members, Robert Bull and Marsha Semmel at the 2023 Association of African American Museums Annual Meeting.

The 2024 Leadership Institute tuition is $1,500 for SEMC and AAAM members and $1,600 for non-members. Tuition includes all instruction, Institute resources, and registration to the SEMC2024 Annual Meeting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Meals (other than those noted below) and lodging at the The Galt House Hotel are not included in tuiton. The 2024 Leadership Institute room rate is $166 per night + tax. Daily lunch and a closing banquet dinner are included. Restaurants and grocery stores are a short walk from the The Galt House.

The Institute will also include daily coffee, morning and afternoon snacks, a reception with guest panelists (bar/lite bites) and a closing dinner.


Galt House Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky

The inaugural SEMC Leadership Institute - Leading for Today’s Challenges - ran as a virtual program November 8 - 20, 2020.

MEET THE INAUGURAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE CLASS OF 2020


2020 Virtual Leadership Institute Cohort 


                   Special thanks to Banks Creative for the Leadership Institute logo design!