The Change Leader Program is a professional development course with an active network of course graduates. Participants attend a three-day immersive institute with instruction on assessing environments and the communication and facilitation skills necessary to implement change. Following the institute, Change Leaders practice these skills by completing a certification project. These certified Change Leaders form a network of leaders that share a common language, mentor each other, and convene through leadership circles and conferences.

Spring Conference
Wednesday May 1st, 2019
11:30 am – 4:30 pm
Location – Utah Cultural Celebration Center
Registration – Coming Soon

The Change Leader Institute is a professional development course that addresses leadership issues in relation to leading change. Our goal is to better equip arts and cultural leaders to deal with environmental and organizational change, and also to create a statewide mentoring network in the arts and cultural community.

You can access the Institute Application here.

**Please note that there is currently a wait-list for the Change Leader Institute. Submit an application to be placed on the wait-list.

To complete their training, Change Leaders design a project, applying the concepts they learned in the Institute. After examining their environment to identify a need, they plan a response, engage others, identify resources, negotiate, honor resistance, adjust plans as necessary and implement change.  Each certification project is unique.

• Certification projects
• Steps in Certification Process

For certified Change Leaders, click HERE to see the complete Change Leader roster.

Change Leader Random Acts of Art encourage creative engagement in communities, spearheaded by Change Leaders. RAAs can range from art projects to targeted community-based activities. This program provides funding for the following purposes:

• Support local civic engagement using arts as a medium and/or artists as active participants.
• Illustrate the impact of arts and artists in meeting social or community needs/opportunities through small projects that are not part of regular programming.
• Assist Change Leaders in building value and increasing connections within their respective communities.
• Strengthen and raise awareness of the arts and the Change Leader network through media and public relations.

Click HERE to view the guidelines.

Final Reports are now online! Access them HERE.

To log in to the online application for this funding, Change Leaders can visit uamgrants.utah.gov.
Please note: The online grants system works best if viewed in Chrome or Firefox web browsers.