A High School Arts and Science program, Conservatory of Music (classical piano, classical guitar, musical direction), and College Business Administration (marketing, communications, finance) education are the foundations of my career portfolio.
NLP practitioner, master practitioner, and Stratic Life Coach practitioner certifications form the foundation of my coaching, consulting, advising and teaching framework.
The building blocks of my career encompass operational management, general management, managing director, artistic director, and executive director responsibilities.
The senior-level management, planning, leadership, communication, and financial capabilities developed climbing the ranks of the theatrical, entertainment, and performing arts worlds allowed me to work with and learn from many of the A-list organizations and talents such as The Canadian Opera Company, The National Ballet of Canada, Metropolitan Opera, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Shakespeare Company, Placido Domingo, Hal Prince, Jeff Beck, Tom Jones, and Brad Paisley to name a few.
A five-year stint with the Interim Management organization, “The Osborne Group,” brought me into the corporate, consulting, and freelancing arenas. It’s here I learned that the arts and corporate worlds are more similar than different, that for-profit and non-profit have much to learn from each other, and that leadership is at heart a performing art, whether on stage, in the executive suite, or at the board table.
In working within the entertainment, corporate, and start-up for-profit, not-for-profit, and for-making-a-difference worlds, I found there is an intersection where disciplines and industries meet, generations connect, outcomes converge, and solutions are found.
This is where I now work, at the intersections; multi-disciplined and cognitively diverse age, ethnicity, race, gender, identity, and education/experience agnostic; finding what is most needed and wanted and producing it.
For people and/or organizations looking for new choices to work with, I bring various disciplines, capabilities, relationships, and networks together and combine them with the internal knowledge, experience, and expertise of each client/organization to find, design, build, and produce solutions.
For a quick conversation to see if I can locate a different way forward, or for further information, please contact me at williamtjkerr@williamkerrandassociates.com, DM me through LinkedIn’s messaging, or set up an appointment on my calendar.
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