Executive Leadership for Arts and Culture Leaders
Executive Leadership for Arts and Culture Leaders supports arts-sector professionals through leadership training to strengthen strategic decisions, team alignment, and organizational resilience.
This grant was recently updated
The application deadline has been extended from November 3 to November 17, 2026.
Funder: Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Due Dates: November 17, 2026 (Application, 11:59 p.m. MST) | January 17–22, 2027 (Program)
Funding Amounts: Partial assistance for up to 18 arts-sector participants; program fee $3,467.80 + GST; participants contribute at least 25%
Summary: Leadership development for arts and culture professionals strengthens strategic decision-making, team alignment, resource stewardship, and organizational resilience.
Key Information: International participants and applicants outside the arts sector are not eligible for financial assistance.
Description
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Executive Leadership for Arts and Culture Leaders program develops organizational leadership capacity through practical frameworks, real-world case studies, experiential learning, and peer exchange. Complementing its Wise Practices in Arts Leadership course, the program explores how purpose, self-awareness, and relationship-centred leadership inform strategic decisions and organizational effectiveness.
Designed for professionals navigating growth, change, and increased accountability, the course moves beyond operational management. Topics include team development, fundraising as a leadership function, audience relevance, strategic choice-making, and organizational resilience. Participants examine how power, influence, competing priorities, and tensions within senior leadership teams shape decisions, while developing approaches to aligning teams, nurturing relationships, shaping culture, and managing resources.
