The DeVos Institute Global Executive Fellowship serves entrepreneurial executives in the arts and cultural sector who are prepared to look critically at their work, challenge assumptions, and develop rigorous strategies to address the most pressing challenges facing their organisations, regions, and art forms at large.
This high-intensity programme serves executives of arts, culture, heritage and humanities non-profits worldwide. It provides training and guidance in strategic planning, leadership, fundraising, marketing, board governance, human resources, and financial planning coupled with peer learning, networking, and time for personal reflection. Fellows pursue the programme through the lens of their current organisation–developing, implementing, and refining strategies for their organisation through its curriculum.
It serves CEOs, Executive Directors, General Managers, and similar who have strategic responsibilities across all core functions of their organisation. The fellowship introduces a new cohort of approximately seven individuals each year. The first-year cohort joins two returning cohorts, one of which (the third-year cohort) matriculates at the end of the term.
Fellows attend a four-week residency in July/early August for three consecutive years and engage in cohort-based activities between residencies.
Support:
- Air and ground transportation between the Fellowship residency location and their state or country of residence (the residency will be held in Washington, D.C. in 2027, other East Coast U.S. locations may be used in alternating years)
- Lodging during the Fellowship
- Per diem to cover living expenses during the Fellowship
- Visa sponsorship (for international applicants)
- Programme materials
