ABOUT
Founded in 2017 by Beau Kenyon, Oakley Collective takes a holistic and collaborative approach to supporting organizations to grow, connect, and flourish. According to the 2023 Nonprofit Workforce Survey, nearly 75% of nonprofits report vacant positions, listing staffing shortages, budget constraints, and burnout as the greatest threats. We present a new approach to arts leadership consulting — joining your team for the long term, but with targeted, part-time hours. Our clients embed our experts into their leadership team as in-house strategic and action-oriented collaborators, building a bridge between your current and future selves.
Functioning at the intersection of tactical support, strategic planning, and professional development, we join organizations to simultaneously support vision and tactics, while building and piloting culturally responsive programs, cross institutional partnerships, and advancement strategies. We also build staffing plans, strategic plans, and professional development workshops to ensure sustainable impact. Throughout our process, Oakley Collective generates collaborative systems across all departments of your organization while forging regional partnerships across disciplines, industries, and communities. Each client invests in an affordable, multi-year contract with us to research, build, pilot, measure, and fully implement new departments, initiatives, and programs.
Oakley —
a meadow of oak trees
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Guiding Principles and Values
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Partnership takes time, skill, and care — they are essential to generating and sustaining vibrant arts ecosystems. Oakley Collective forges a diverse portfolio of values-aligned partners to build reciprocal support, expand audience, and deepen mission.
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Programming, engagement, and outreach activates organizational mission while building trust among current and future audiences. Oakley Collective employs a multi-systems approach to engagement, constructing an authentic network of bridges with audiences and communities.
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Arts and creativity thrive in emotionally and physically safe environments. Oakley Collective implements systems, tools, and workshops for teams to build and sustain trust within the organization and across communities.
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Burnout is a systemic issue, caused by funding scarcity, underdeveloped advocacy strategies, and exploitative management tactics. Oakley Collective simultaneously supports organizations while building opportunities for collective in-sourcing and documenting programs to tangibly build value in communities.