Janet Bailey

Lecturer

Janet M. Bailey (AR700-Leadership in the Arts and AR804 Advanced Management and Consulting) has an extensive career spanning both strategic consulting and direct line management in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors.

She is currently an independent consultant, providing marketing, strategic, development, organizational, and communications consulting services to arts and cultural organizations and other nonprofits. Recent and current clients include organizations of all sizes that are engaged in theater, classical music, opera, dance, and visual arts, along with several educational institutions, collaborative arts consortiums, funding organizations, performing arts facilities, arts service institutions, and other nonprofit organizations.

Prior to starting her own practice in 1997, Janet served for five years as General Manager and Director of Marketing for the Handel & Haydn Society. Earlier in her career she spent five years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in their New York office and in several locations in Latin America, advising major corporations in a variety of industries on matters of organization and strategy. She subsequently served in several line-management positions with the Times Mirror Corporation, working as Operations Director and General Manager in two of Times Mirror’s cable-television subsidiaries.

Janet has been deeply involved in the leadership of professional associations and volunteer activities throughout her career, and has served in the past as President of the Boston Arts Marketing Alliance, the Boston Ballet Volunteer Association, and the Boston chapter of Women in Cable. She currently serves on the Board of the Community Music Center of Boston.

She holds B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Boston University. She has been on the Arts Administration faculty since 2000, and is the recipient of the 2007 Deveau Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.