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MEMBERS
Meet great leaders.
Build great institutions.
Join a roundtable of Performing Arts Center executives to convene and think strategically together on broad industry-level topics, compare proprietary benchmark data, and learn from one another to recognize leadership blind spots.
The Business Edition cohort kicks off in February 2023.
Meet great leaders
Join a roundtable of Performing Arts Center executives to convene and think strategically on broad industry-level topics, compare proprietary benchmark data, and learn from one another to recognize leadership blind spots.
Join the only strategic insight platform used by nearly every major Performing Arts Center in North America
Members share data and knowledge as a community.
Build your network and your value as a leader.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Apply to the Cohort
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We just launched a cohort for organizations under $5M - apply now!
Get onboard
Meet your cohort through IRL and virtual events and discover a network of your peers.
Share data
Enlist your team’s support and submit operating data to the platform. Analysis and tools become available immediately. Solid data yields confident decision making.
Grow your skills
Collaborate with your peers and maximize the impact of your organization. Find answers, intros, and advisors, far more easily than you might on your own. Boost your communication chops by articulating your organization’s work more quantitatively; and when you’re not sure, learn where to go for authoritative answers.
Give back
Service to the field is at the heart of what we do. Whether you go on to lead larger organizations or continue to deepen the impact where you are, Roundtable members pay it forward by advising and connecting with the PAC leadership community.
DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
If you’re a Performing Arts Center executive who wants to increase your impact and grow as a leader, apply today.
Yearly membership for Performance Analytics is priced by tier, and covers everyone in your organization.
“I don’t think anyone else comes close to having the amount of performing arts venue data that Performance Analytics has.”
Kathy Ramsberger, CEO
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Orlando, Florida
“The Performing Analytics network has proven to be a tremendous help.”
Robyn Williams, Executive Director
Portland'5 Centers for the Arts
Portland, Oregon
“I don’t think anyone else comes close to having the amount of performing arts venue data that Performance Analytics has. It's been a game changer for us.”
Mike Fresher
CEO, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
“Performance Analytics gives us important information to analyze our operations. We’ve adopted a number of operating measures because of the tools. The networking and discussions with my fellow Performance Analytics participants [are] my favorite parts of the community.”
John Burnett, VP and Chief Financial Officer
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts
Las Vegas, Nevada
“Performance Analytics provides an objective reference for the staff and trustees to evaluate how we are doing. The data provides clues about best practices and innovations that might lead to desirable benchmarks, and prompts us to dig deeper and discuss results with our peers.”
Tom Gabbard, President & CEO
Blumenthal Performing Arts
Charlotte, North Carolina
“As a CFO new to the performing arts world, I joined Performance Analytics a few years ago. Seeing how we compare to other PACs helped me better understand the overall business. This network has proven to be a tremendous help when I have operational questions or just want to know how others handle important issues.”
Kathy DuBose, VP and Chief Financial Officer
Performing Arts Fort Worth
Fort Worth, Texas
“Performance Analytics meetings are great opportunities for learning about the challenges we all face in a constantly changing arts environment. The network we have developed has become incredibly meaningful to all of us at the Center.”
Rick Nowlin, President & CEO
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
Santa Rosa, California
ABOUT
YOUR COHORT
For more than 15 years, Performance Analytics has collaborated with the nation’s largest and most active Performing Arts Centers to build a powerful database and convene leaders.
Performance Analytics gives the group its super powers:
All member organizations contribute operating, ticketing, and staff data via our proprietary benchmark platform called Performance Analytics.
Leadership at every level—from managers to CEOs—share best practices, resources, and provide each other with support, advice, and analogous experience unique to running a performing arts center.
Data
Knowledge Share
Cohorts are based on organization size and enroll quarterly, applications accepted on a rolling basis.
PROCESS
Build great institutions