Jerry Yoshitomi is one of America’s foremost authorities on audience development and leadership strategies for the arts. He is the former Chair of the National Task Force on Presenting and Touring the Performing Arts that resulted in the 1989 seminal report, An American Dialogue. He has shared his expertise with arts organizations and government agencies throughout the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He was even involved in the preparation of the Ontario Arts Council’s latest Strategic Plan. We will help him lead a workshop in Banff (AB) for performance arts network executives. We’re hoping this first collaboration will lead to others and that the knowledge we will share will be made to good use by our IAD customers.

Denis Bertrand