About WebbWebb Management Services IncorporatedWMSI_c21ea746-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe8Webb TeamBased in New York City with a network of associates and collaborators around the country, Webb Management Services' team has deep experience and knowledge in both business and the arts and entertainment. Our core staff has professional experience as producers, presenters, performers, finance managers, educators and/or fundraisers as well as training in business and finance, providing a thorough understanding of the creative and operational functions of arts and entertainment organizations.Duncan M. WebbPresident, CMC -- Duncan M. Webb founded Webb Management Services, Inc. to provide management consulting services to the arts and cultural industries. The firm has now successfully completed more than 200 consulting assignments for the development of facilities and districts, and for the advancement of cultural organizations.Webb's career in the arts began onstage as a lovesick maiden in a 1969 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. After college, he became a banker, spending seven years in commercial lending and international finance. In 1986, after many years of volunteer work in the arts, he came into the field as a producer of experimental, industrial and commercial theatre, with such credits as the Canadian premieres of Changing Bodies, Children of a Lesser God, Blood Brothers, Orphans, Marshall Bravestarr and Barbie and the Rockers. He also developed marketing and sponsorship programs for the Canadian premiere of Les Miserables.In 1989, Webb joined Theatre Projects Consultants as a management consultant, writing feasibility studies for a range of performing arts facilities and ultimately becoming the general manager of the North American practice of this theatre consulting firm. He then spent two additional years at AMS Planning and Research, doing similar work before starting Webb Management Services in March 1997.A Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Webb has been an active speaker and published writer on arts management and the development, operation and financing of arts facilities. In January 2005, Webb's book "Running Theaters: Best Practices for Managers and Leaders" was published, the first book ever written on the management of performing arts facilities. He is also a professor in New York University's Graduate Program in Performing Arts Administration, where he teaches Finance and Planning for the Performing Arts and Principles & Practices of Performing Arts Administration.Duncan has a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Toronto. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two children.Carrie BlakeSenior Consultant -- Carrie Blake joined Webb Management Services, Inc. in January 2006. She has gained extensive knowledge on the operation and function of arts organizations through her work with various independent, government-based, and university arts organizations.Before joining the firm, Carrie was the Associate Producer for the Office of Arts & Cultural Programming at Montclair State University (NJ) where she played a pivotal role in the establishment of an ambitious new presenting and producing program. Collaborating with innovative experimental artists from across the nation and around the world, Carrie coordinated state, regional and national and world premieres while working to establish identity, presence, structure and policy for MSU's new venture.Prior to working at MSU, Carrie developed and managed fundraising events and campaigns for both The Drama League, a New York City-based nonprofit committed to developing artists and audiences for the American theatre, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI).Through her Master's Degree in Business at the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carrie completed a venture development business plan for the Wisconsin School Music Association and a marketing research study for the Madison Symphony Orchestra. Her graduate thesis focused on the university arts presenters' multifarious existence within university and community contexts.Carrie earned a dual BA in Music and Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky. A native of Cleveland Ohio, Carrie's commitment to the arts first began at the age of nine, when, after becoming fed up with the antics of her creatively destructive brothers, she picked up her first clarinet.Christina KruiseProject Manager -- Christina's career as a researcher and producer focuses on the use of site and space in live performance.Growing up in Central Pennsylvania, Christina’s only access to a stage was a casket bier in her parents’ funeral home. This experience of working ‘site-responsively’ as a child has continued to impact her career, first as a performer, and now as a practitioner and arts researcher.An avid traveller, Christina’s loves for the unknown and for investigative performance frequently intersect. Working with a Bosnian architect and Croatian theatre producer, she created Unlisted in 2011. A site-based, performance as research project, Unlisted uses performance to engage curators, local and international artists, and community members in conversations about space, its use, and its function within a neighborhood. To date, the project has been produced in Belgrade and Pittsburgh, with future iterations planned for Montreal and Salvador, Brazil. In addition to Unlisted, Christina has worked extensively in Germany researching mixed-language performance and the intersections between language and perceptions of space. Her capstone project, funded by the Network of Ensemble Theatres, was a seven-month, long-distance collaborative project with a Berlin-based theatre ensemble. The project culminated in a weeklong think-tank critically examining collaboration and the fundamental differences that distinguish the German and American theatre models. Essays about Christina’s work have been published in multiple academic and arts journals, on the Art in Odd Places blog, and presented at the 2011 Theatre Communications Group National Conference.Prior to starting at Webb Management Services, Christina was a Communications Consultant for the New York City Department of Education, where she played a key role in assisting 90 elementary and middle schools with the implementation of a new curriculum. She holds masters degrees in Performance Studies and Performance Research from the University of the Arts of Belgrade (Serbia) and the University of Warwick (UK), and bachelor's degrees in Theatre Arts and Urban Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.Sustainable programs and places for arts, culture and creativity that benefit their communities._c21ea8b8-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe8To build creativity with sound and thoughtful planning, consulting, research, facilitation that inform and enable decision-makers to create and sustain programs and places for arts, culture and creativity that benefit their communities._c21ea9bc-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe8StrategyA passion for finding achievable and sustainable strategies for every assignment, organization and communityResearchThe desire to engage in meaningful and relevant researchIntegrityThe integrity to pursue the right answer as opposed to the easy answerCollaborationA commitment to collaboration and partnershipsPartnershipCreativityA belief in the positive and beneficial impacts of the arts and creative industries on people, communities, and societyServicesDeliver effective and efficient services that are comprehensive and collaborative_c21eab7e-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe81ArtistsCreative EntitiesMunicipalitiesCollegesUniversitiesNonprofit Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsPrivate FoundationsCommercial DevelopersEconomic Development AgenciesWebb Management Services is a leading provider of project development, planning and consulting services for arts and creative entities with more than 250 completed assignments. The firm's clients include municipalities, colleges and universities, nonprofit arts organizations, community and private foundations, commercial developers, economic development agencies and other entities.Webb Management Services offers a group of critical and effective services in cultural facility development and operations, planning, facilitation, and counsel and arts industry services. Our work is based on an approach that has been developed and employed successfully in many diverse assignments and communities.Inclusiveness & OpennessEncourage all voices to be heard._c21eac6e-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe81.1Projects and planning efforts must be as inclusive and open as possible, encouraging all voices to be heard.ResearchConduct in-depth research._c21ead68-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe81.2In-depth research is critical to any assignment.PerspectivesInter-relate physical, operating and financial perspectives._c21eae80-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe81.3Physical, operating and financial perspectives are critical and inter-related.InsightProvide insight based upon the experience of other communities and organizations._c21eaf7a-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe81.4The experience of other communities and organizations provides important insight to any question or assignment.FlexibilityMake recommendations flexible enough to encourage and allow for new opportunities as they arise._c21eb074-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe81.5The only certain factor in any initiative is change -- we must be flexible enough in our recommendations to encourage and allow for new opportunities as they arise.DirectionProvide direction._c21eb196-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe81.6Our work is not intended to sit on a bookshelf, but rather to provide direction, a detailed roadmap and oftentimes a fundraising tool for those charged with turning the project into reality.RoadmapProvide a detailed roadmap._c21eb290-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe81.6.1FundraisingProvide a fundraising tool._c21eb39e-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe81.6.2ValueProvide value via creative solutions and realistic tactics to achieve them_c21eb4ac-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe82_c21eb5ba-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe8WorkCreate a body of work that has long-term value to the arts and creative industries_c21eb6f0-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe83ArtistsCreative Industries_c21eb808-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe8Skills & ExperienceAssemble the right combination of skills and experience to suit the needs of each client_c21eb8ee-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe84_c21eb9de-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe8Discussion & InnovationInspire discussion and innovation within the field_c21ebb28-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe85_c21ebc18-fefe-11e6-b1f6-b9df7ee62fe82017-03-01http://webbmgmt.org/mission/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net