NASAA extends a warm welcome to new state arts agency executive directors!
To support your success, NASAA is convening a special preconference session tailored to your needs. This event complements the 2025 Executive Forum. It offers a chance to connect with a smaller cohort of leaders to explore the distinctive roles of state arts agencies, change leadership, transition dynamics and priority issues for recent appointees.
This is an invitation-only event. Executive directors appointed since November 2024 (or those appointed in 2024 who could not make the 2024 New Executive Directors’ Roundtable) are eligible to participate.
Participants should plan to arrive in Omaha on Monday evening, November 10, 2025. The New Executive Directors’ Roundtable will take place all day on Tuesday, November 11. This is an in-person session taking place at the Embassy Suites Omaha Downtown Old Market, not a virtual or hybrid event.
No fee is charged for this Wednesday roundtable. (A registration fee is required for the main Executive Forum taking place Wednesday and Thursday.)
NASAA will contact eligible individuals to provide further information. In the meantime, if you have any questions about the New Executive Directors Roundtable—or about NASAA’s onboarding and orientation support services for new leaders—please contact NASAA Executive Advisor Kelly Barsdate.