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Laura and her colleague Daryl Fischer have just finished updating Templates for Trustees, a series of publications for the Museum Trustee Association: Building Museum Boards, The Leadership Partnership, Executive Transitions and Strategic Thinking and Planning.

To see how we approach our work, click on the titles below to download articles and other resources.
The Deaccessioning Dilemma: How can we support standards AND museums in crisis?
published in New England Museums Now, Fall/Winter 2017/2018
Laura facilitated this timely Think Tank session at the NEMA annual conference in November 2017


The Winds of Opportunity

published in History News, Spring 2010
A revision was in Making Public History in the 21st-Century in 2017
Nonprofit and Loss: The crisis of public confidence in museums
published in Museum News, March/April 1993
Outcomes and Experience: New Priorities for Museums
published in Curator, The Museum Journal, January 2001
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​What Keeps Strategic Plans From Being Useful?

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Elements of Successful Planning
​So you have a consent agenda… now how do you fill a board meeting?
published in New England Museums Now, Winter 2015

Monitoring Performance with a Dashboard

Museums as Catalysts for Change
published in Nema News, Winter 2011

Assessment and Planning Using Portfolio Analysis
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published in Journal of Museum Education, Summer 2010

Closing Thoughts on the Future of Leadership in Museum Education
page 12 in Leading the Future of Museum Education, May 2015

Case study on organizational change: Changing the Story
Seminar in Historical Administration, 2011

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Case Studies in Museum Governance
Museum Trustee Association, 2006

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