Roberts Consulting guides nonprofit organizations in creating sound, compelling and exciting strategic plans and developing strong organizations capable of implementing those plans. Our goal is to help cultural organizations, regardless of their size, be valued public assets, relevant to their communities’ needs and challenges.
When Laura B. Roberts began Roberts Consulting, she brought with her 20 years of experience in nonprofit cultural and educational organizations. Her work as an executive director, senior staff, board member, and grant maker gave her multiple perspectives on the assets and challenges of the cultural community.
As a consultant, she has worked with more than 180 museums, historical organizations, preservation organizations, arts centers, performing arts organizations, and schools. Through strategic planning, organizational development services and facilitation, she helps organizations move forward in ways that reflect strategic thinking and decision making, mindful of the organization’s mission and capacity and its audience’s priorities and needs. Her work has one over-riding goal: to help boards and staff create an organization that is an asset to its community.
In November 2021, the New England Museum Association honored Laura with its Lifetime Achievement Award which recognizes "individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the museum field over the course of a distinguished career. [The] Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a professional’s commitment to excellence, leadership in the field, service to others, and support of NEMA."
Laura is on the board and executive committee of History Cambridge. The photograph above is from a public art project on the lawn of their headquarters, created by the artists of Black Coral, “Forgotten Souls of Tory Row: Remembering the Enslaved People of Brattle Street,” honored the enslaved adults and children who lived and worked on that land as well as those whose labor on Caribbean plantations helped finance the grand homes of white Tory Row elites.
Laura recently joined the board of Environment & Culture Partners as its treasurer. It is a great organization committed to helping the cultural sector become more responsible and sustainable environmental actors. She is also on the board of the Cambridge Public Library Foundation and Central Square Theater, also in Cambridge.
Learn more about Laura's teaching at Harvard's Museum Studies program in this faculty spotlight.
Laura was a founding member and past president of The Museum Group (TMG), a nationwide consortium of senior museum professionals working as independent consultants. She was also part of the organizing steering committee of Independent Museum Professionals.
Laura is on the board and executive committee of History Cambridge. The photograph above is from a public art project on the lawn of their headquarters, created by the artists of Black Coral, “Forgotten Souls of Tory Row: Remembering the Enslaved People of Brattle Street,” honored the enslaved adults and children who lived and worked on that land as well as those whose labor on Caribbean plantations helped finance the grand homes of white Tory Row elites.
Laura recently joined the board of Environment & Culture Partners as its treasurer. It is a great organization committed to helping the cultural sector become more responsible and sustainable environmental actors. She is also on the board of the Cambridge Public Library Foundation and Central Square Theater, also in Cambridge.
Learn more about Laura's teaching at Harvard's Museum Studies program in this faculty spotlight.
Laura was a founding member and past president of The Museum Group (TMG), a nationwide consortium of senior museum professionals working as independent consultants. She was also part of the organizing steering committee of Independent Museum Professionals.