Develop diverse and inclusive leadership

Diversity & Inclusion on Boards

Sue Woodford-Hollick OBE talks talks about her own personal experiences as a trustee and Chair of numerous volunteer boards and as a director in the arts and cultural sector.

Why and how to achieve diversity on your board

An article about how to evolve your board into a more inclusive, responsive and representative body, and the steps your organisation could take to reach that goal.

Best practice recruitment guide for creative leaders

A comprehensive toolkit exhibiting best practice for creative leaders to hire in a diverse manner. (Links directly to a PDF.)

Exploding traditional ideas of leadership

Styled as a ‘leadership program for non-leaders’, Front & Centre works with creative women and nonbinary people with disability or who are d/Deaf. Central to the program is a total reimagining of the concept of leadership. The program encourages looking beyond the usual suspects to affirm and support potential leaders.

"When people are feeling safe, they are empowered to speak up about what matters to them, what is meaningful to them, what is passionate to them."

Eugenie Lee

Inc Arts Unlock - Anti-racism toolkit

The Unlock toolkit is a free comprehensive resource aimed at arts organisations. It contains over 100 actions that will help creative workplaces become more inclusive, and focuses on hiring, leadership, work and care.

Toks Dada (classical music programmer, curator and producer) on governance

Toks Dada discusses the biggest governance challenges and opportunities as the sector responds to COVID-19 and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement, his experiences, and the challenges he's facing right now, and advice on how to do it better.

Diversity in governance – from good intentions to action and impact

A blog post by Hilary Carty, who is the Director at Clore Leadership for the Calouste Gublenkian Foundation. Hilary cover ways to promote change, engage, audit, reach out and recruit in a more diverse and inclusive way.

Re-Tool: Racial Equity in the Panel Process

A tool that provides effective strategies to intervene in ways that expand and empower collective work for racial equity in arts organisations, including sections on how to make your grant panel, application forms, recruitment process and board more racially diverse. It also includes a concise glossary of terms.

UK Music Diversity Taskforce - Ten-Point Plan

Delivered by the Music Diversity Taskforce, this Ten-Point Plan aligns evidence and metrics to strategic actions to help increase diversity and boost inclusion at the trade bodies that represent the majority of the UK music industry — covering governance, policy and board strategy.

Arts and Culture Governance Spotlight Report

A report that provides an effective comparison and benchmark with other not-for-profit companies and organisations. 1,878 senior leaders in the not-for-profit sector were surveyed and results show board diversity figures and governance training.

More capacity, more equity at Footscray Community Arts

Founded by unionists in the 1970s and famous for their long-running Indigenous Advisory Group, Footscray Community Arts takes ‘Access for All’ as its mission. But how does that work in terms of governance?
* Indigenous-led advice
* Relationships before mechanisms
* Support for board members
* Continual training
* Co-CEO model
* More than one mechanism
* Equity at the centre

Promoting Cultural Safety and Addressing the Power Gap

How can arts and creative organisations diversify their Boards and overcome historic and structural power imbalances? Watch this session to learn how inclusive structures enhance governance and lead to improved outcomes. In addition, our discussion will focus on the practical implementation of cultural safety and First Nations engagement protocols, as well as empowering individuals with the knowledge and skills they need.

Doing it Differently: Fit-for-purpose governance models

This webinar, hosted by Diversity Arts Australia and Creative Australia, focuses on the core purpose of governance to understand how arts and creative industries organisations can confidently manage risk, resources, equity, and power-sharing through fit–for–purpose governance models.