How to diversify your leadership in the creative sector: a Masterclass

Are you seeking ways to diversify your organisation's leadership?

Then join us to talk about leadership. What’s happening at the top? What will it take to diversify leadership in the creative industries and why does it matter so much?

This masterclass looks at practical and tactical ways to intervene into the current leadership composition of creative industries and cultural institutions, and tangible strategies for change.

This workshop is led by Dr Paula Abood, a creative producer, educator, community advocate, writer and director. As part of this masterclass, CEO of Multicultural Arts Victoria, Veronica Pardo will be in conversation with Paula Abood themed “symbolic gesture or substantive change”.

Over the past 30 years, Paula has sustained a commitment to critical practice with marginalised communities in cultural work that speaks to the intersectionality of identities. She want to promote practice that is informed by a more mindful, deep and authentic engagement. Paula is the Australia Council's inaugural New Fellow for Community Arts and Cultural Development.

The workshop is a component of the Fair Play project, funded by Creative Victoria. Fair Play is a two-year equity and inclusion capacity building program for organisations and seeks to address barriers to participation by underrepresented groups in Victoria’s creative industries, with a focus on developing organisation’s skills and capacity in working with three groups:

• First Nations people
• people with disability
• people from underrepresented cultural and linguistic backgrounds.