You ran the team debrief. You sat in the room while the department heads walked through what held and what broke. You captured the near-misses. You wrote down the protocols worth keeping. You did the organizational work, and you did it well. There's one debrief you didn't run.The one where you're the only person in the…
Read MoreThirty-six seasons is a long time to do anything. It is long enough to see every kind of festival leader succeed and fail. Long enough to watch brilliant operators burn out in…
Read MoreYou have been doing this long enough to know that the hardest festivals to lead are never the ones where the stage collapses. They are the ones where you do. Not visibly. Not in front of anyone. But somewhere in the…
Read MoreYou approved the $40,000 staging upgrade without a second thought. You signed the lighting package. You didn't blink at the hospitality rider that costs more than some people's annual salary. But when it came time to invest in yourself - - in your own development as the person who makes every…
Read MoreFive generations on your festival team - and nobody told you how to lead them. Here's why the fault line forms and what to do about it. Here’s the thing. Your 55-year-old stage manager and your 24-year-old production assistant are standing three feet apart on the same site visit. Same briefing. Same directive from you. And somehow…
Read MoreThere's a frog in boiling water that doesn't know it's in danger. You've heard the analogy. The water heats so gradually that the frog never registers the threat. By the time it's obvious, it's too late to jump…
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