THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

The Leadership Institute is an immersive one-year program provided to all first-year roster artists. This program sets the tone for each artists’ journey at CAG and serves as a jump start to their career. Led by top executive coach Dana Fonteneau, this program guides each artist through a series of professional development sessions and exercises culminating in a newfound confidence and awakened sense of leadership.

How to Address Career Development in a Covid-19 World?

Now more than ever young musicians must learn to become pro-active designers of their professional lives by taking initiative of their personal, professional, artistic masterplan. The unprecedented pause of concerts in the 20-21 season gives an extraordinary opportunity to develop young artists in ways that weren’t perceived possible before due to overcommitments of time and engagements

What Artists Need Most Right Now

• Resilience: the ability to pivot and adapt to an every changing environment
• Clear intrinsic vision
• A confident and resilient sense of self
• An innate and authentic artistic voice
• An artistic portfolio to express that vision and voice
• Career master-plan
• The ability to articulate, communicate and express one’s vision and goals
• A specific strategy to achieve goals
• Social support which is collaborative and influential
• Financial intelligence and grounded awareness of how the business functions
• A clear sense of what an artist’s role is in today’s world how to be culturally sensitive and aware of current affairs
• A healthy sense of purpose
• Self-awareness and the ability to maintain health and wellness
• The ability to embrace challenge in pursuit of essential goals

Leadership Institute Objectives

• Helping each artist identify, clarify and articulate their unique artistic and professional vision and begin to create a master plan around those goals
• Develop a sense of emotional and artistic resilience to adapt to an uncertain and unpredictable future
• Awaken innate leadership
• Address health and wellness: from mindset to self-care including handling stress, overwhelm, and how and where to reach when more professional help is needed
• Help each individual identify how to embrace success and failure equally in the pursuit of mastery and a sustainable life in the arts
• Gain the skills to address conflict and interpersonal dynamics intrinsic in the professional world