ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Anne Bergeron has spent nearly three decades working to advance the programmatic and business side of nonprofit cultural enterprise. She specializes in planning, organizational development, fundraising and strategic communications. Currently, she is the deputy director of the Institute and Museum of California Art at University of California, Irvine, guiding the development of a new academic art museum. In addition to running her own consulting firm serving clients in the arts, museum, design and historic preservation fields, Anne has held senior management positions at Brown University’s Arts Initiative, Dallas Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and National Writer’s Voice Project. She also writes, teaches at the graduate level, and lectures at industry conferences. She has a B.A. from Trinity College and an executive certificate in nonprofit management from Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership, where she served as visiting practitioner in 2010-12; she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in philanthropic studies at Indiana University. Anne is a member of The Museum Group, a national consortium of seasoned museum consultants. She resides with her husband in Providence, RI.

Beth Tuttle, managing director of METStrategies, LLC., is an author, leadership and executive coach, and organizational and brand consultant. She provides individual and team coaching, strategic counsel, planning and branding services to cultural, philanthropic and other social benefit organizations. She has served as President and CEO of the American Horticultural Society and of DataArts. Previously, she held senior leadership positions with the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, America’s Promise, and The Freedom Forum and Newseum. She has represented clients including The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Museum of American Jewish History, Crocker Art Museum, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, TKF Foundation, National Academies of Science, the Microsoft Network (now MSNBC), Priceline.com (now Bookings.com). Beth was a visiting practitioner at the Georgetown Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership (2010-12). She is a member of the American Alliance of Museums, The Museum Group, Americans for the Arts, and serves on the national advisory board for SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research. Beth is a graduate of Brown University, and holds certifications in Leadership Coaching from The George Washington University and in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston. She resides with her husband in Alexandria, VA where she is an Extension Master Gardener.