{"id":733,"date":"2014-08-26T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T03:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=733"},"modified":"2014-08-26T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T03:08:44","slug":"ace-wellington-adds-creative-flavour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2014\/08\/26\/ace-wellington-adds-creative-flavour\/","title":{"rendered":"ACE Wellington adds creative flavour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clockwise from top: Creative leaders Jo Randerson and Deirdre Tarrant joined organisational leader Lana Simmons-Donaldson to share leadership insights at this year’s Wellington ACE program.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Wellington \u2018creative campus\u2019 ACE (Achieving Career Excellence) women students\u2019 leadership program had a special twist this year by collaborating with Arts on Wednesday to bring\u00a0creative women entrepreneurs from the arts sector to\u00a0the speaker line-up.
\nDame Deirdre Tarrant (Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit) kicked the program off with an incredibly frank and entertaining talk about her life and work as a dancer, choreographer, business owner and mentor.
\nThe following week featured a visit from Jo Randerson, artistic director of Barbarian Theatre and award-winning New Zealand playwright. Jo talked about building a successful arts company from the ground up and generating new project opportunities through crowdfunding.
\nThe third speaker was Massey University\u2019s own communication leader, Lana Simmons-Donaldson, who is Massey\u2019s Account Manager – M\u0101ori, Pasifika and New Migrants. She shared moving personal insights into leadership and perseverance, and particularly issues for M\u0101ori women leaders.
\nOriginally developed by Professor Sarah Leberman at Manawatu, and delivered at Wellington by Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley (College of Humanities & Social Sciences) and Anna Brown (College of Creative Arts), ACE is a five-week programme for specially selected final-year women students. It explores issues for women in the workforce, such as assertiveness and gender-pay equity, and gives women students some insights into and positive strategies for handling gender-related challenges they might encounter.
\n\u201cWe tune the program carefully every year in response to participant feedback,\u201d Dr Tilley said. \u201cLast year our business students were very well catered for with fantastic organisation-based speakers, so this year we wanted to add something responsive\u00a0to the needs expressed by creative arts and humanities students about work models that are not necessarily organisation-based.\u201d
\nDr Tilley said the focus for graduating students was often on employability, but it was important, particularly in the creative industries, to also foster what she called \u201cemployerability\u201d, that is, the ability to generate projects and companies that employ others.
\n\u201cOur speakers were so inspiring \u2013 they have taken risks, made sacrifices, and contributed to our culture and society in completely novel ways. Creative entrepreneurship has a set of challenges all its own, and it was great to balance that this year with the traditional organisation focus.\u201d
\nThe ACE program also includes exercises and activities on life-planning, assertiveness, work\/life balance and managing workplace situations. Students are selected for the second-semester program based on both academic and extracurricular leadership, and receive a letter of invitation at the end of first semester. \u00a0This year, the speaker portions of the program were also open to members of the public and the Wellington campus community. “These speakers are so great, we didn’t want to keep them all to ourselves,” Dr Tilley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wellington \u2018creative campus\u2019 ACE (Achieving Career Excellence) women students\u2019 leadership program had a special twist this year by collaborating with Arts on Wednesday to bring\u00a0creative women entrepreneurs from the arts sector to\u00a0the speaker line-up. Dame Deirdre Tarrant (Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit) kicked the program off with an incredibly frank and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,1,66],"tags":[112,114,59,16,115,71,113],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-expressive-arts-subject","category-wellington-campus-campus","tag-achieving-career-excellence","tag-arts-leadership","tag-arts-on-wednesday","tag-creative-communication","tag-gender","tag-wellington","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}