IMPACT CONSULTING FOR ARTS-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES
With the Wisconsin Idea as our guidepost, emphasis placed on learning and practicing the conceptual frameworks and skills related to creating lasting and sustainable impact in Wisconsin communities. Through classroom discussions, guest speakers, site visits, and field-consulting project(s), acquire and practice skills needed in designing, facilitating and developing key relationships and strategies that promote community vibrancy, revitalization, and create (or keep) the essence of what makes our Wisconsin towns and organizations special. Examples of the types of projects that will be conducted include the development of cultural plans, strategic/comprehensive community planning, program evaluations, change management, bench-marking, data collection and analysis, hosting public convenings (focus groups, town halls and forums), and business modeling.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply knowledge of management consulting practices. Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate use of consulting practices in active learning with community clients through interviews, focus group/survey design and delivery for discovery, data acquisition, analysis and reporting, which lead to strategic planning and change management. Audience: Graduate 3. Practice in a variety of processes and interventions inherent in the management consulting field, specifically those techniques used in service to create equity, building diverse stakeholder groups, and being inclusive of all members of a community. Audience: Graduate 4. Recognize individual strengths, non-strengths, likes, dislikes, personality and goals with consulting opportunities, demands and behaviors so as to help enhance their placement and career opportunities in the future. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply knowledge of management consulting practices. Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate use of consulting practices in active learning with community clients through interviews, focus group/survey design and delivery for discovery, data acquisition, analysis and reporting, which lead to strategic planning and change management. Audience: Graduate 3. Practice in a variety of processes and interventions inherent in the management consulting field, specifically those techniques used in service to create equity, building diverse stakeholder groups, and being inclusive of all members of a community. Audience: Graduate 4. Recognize individual strengths, non-strengths, likes, dislikes, personality and goals with consulting opportunities, demands and behaviors so as to help enhance their placement and career opportunities in the future. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027