Ron Schiller
Founding Partner & Senior Consultant
Anne Johnson
Vice President & Senior Consultant
Aspen Leadership Group
Interview date: July 29, 2021
With our industry’s baby-boomer generation entering retirement and the Musical America job listings at their highest number ever, we wanted to take a closer look. In this One to One, we turn to the experts: Ron Schiller and Anne Johnson at the Aspen Leadership Group, one of top executive search firms specializing in the non-profit realm and the arts.
Their take: Turnover is high across all sectors and at all levels, partly because of a backlog built up during the pandemic, and partly because prospective employees, having learned to work successfully on their own and out of the office over the last 16 months, are demanding more flexibility. The one trend particular to classical music, they said, is the need for increased diversity in hiring practices, on all sides of the equation.
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