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description: Russell has held a variety of senior jobs including Managing Director of the English National Opera in London, President and CEO of National Arts Strategies in Washington DC, and Interim Vice President of Leadership and Arts at the Banff Centre in Canada. Currently working as a strategic consultant, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and serves on the Alyth Development Trust, Hospitalfield Trust, and as Chair of Fractured Atlas. Russell was honored with the International Citation of Merit by the International Society for the Performing Arts, presented in recognition of her lifetime achievement and her distinguished service to the performing arts. She has written a number of articles on arts and nonprofit management and policy issues in arts, society and culture, as well as a book on fundraising for museums commissioned by the British Government. She and her husband have recently moved to Alyth in Perthshire, Scotland and are restoring a Victorian house and its gardens.
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### Russell Willis Taylor
Russell has held a variety of senior jobs including Managing Director of the English National Opera in London, President and CEO of National Arts Strategies in Washington DC, and Interim Vice President of Leadership and Arts at the Banff Centre in Canada. Currently working as a strategic consultant, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and serves on the Alyth Development Trust, Hospitalfield Trust, and as Chair of Fractured Atlas. Russell was honored with the International Citation of Merit by the International Society for the Performing Arts, presented in recognition of her lifetime achievement and her distinguished service to the performing arts. She has written a number of articles on arts and nonprofit management and policy issues in arts, society and culture, as well as a book on fundraising for museums commissioned by the British Government. She and her husband have recently moved to Alyth in Perthshire, Scotland and are restoring a Victorian house and its gardens.
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## [Entering Into Interim Leadership](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/entering-interim-leadership)
By [Russell Willis Taylor](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/russell-willis-taylor)
August 24th, 2021
As we close out our summer and head into fall, we are entering a new phase at Fractured Atlas.
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## [Gratitude & Leadership Transitions](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/gratitude-leadership-transitions)
By [Russell Willis Taylor](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/russell-willis-taylor)
March 22nd, 2021
As an organization, Fractured Atlas understands that change is not only inevitable, it’s often a good thing. This past year has required all of us to deeply rethink how we work, how we communicate, and how we can better align our skills and our vision in service of what matters. While we acknowledge the deep losses we as individuals and as a whole sector have faced, we also embrace the chance to plan for and create a more equitable future.
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## [Thoughts on Co-Leadership: What Still Needs Doing?](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/shared-co-leadership-part-4)
By [Russell Willis Taylor](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/russell-willis-taylor)
July 15th, 2020
This is the final of four posts. Each tackles a piece of the elephant that is the recent Fractured Atlas move to a four-person “Chiefs Executive.”
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## [Update from the Fractured Atlas Board](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/update-fractured-atlas-board-black-lives-matter)
By [Russell Willis Taylor](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/russell-willis-taylor)
June 3rd, 2020
The Board of Fractured Atlas strongly condemns the structures of racism and bias that perpetuate inequities in the lives of people of color in communities across our country. Today we are reminded once again of the far-reaching and malignant impacts on the health, safety and economic opportunity of Black Americans. We re-commit now to eliminating structures of bias and oppression in our work. As we work to increase the economic, political, and social power of artists and creatives we join with others who see creative expression as part of a just society.
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## [New Metrics for New Models: Measuring the Success of Shared Leadership](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/measuring-success-shared-leadership)
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December 5th, 2019
Since we embarked on our new leadership journey, I (in my role as Chair of the Fractured Atlas Board) have been asked a number of times “Why take the risk?” As Fractured Atlas is in the risk business with regard to innovation and services for our members, the better question to me is why not take the risk – it's what we do. This brief post is an outline of the benefits thus far, as well as an honest admission about what we still haven’t figured out. (My fellow board member Chris Mackie will be writing on the detailed list of what we have yet to resolve and design – this will be a quick pass in anticipation of his contribution which is coming soon.)
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