Position Your Creative Organisation in a Strategic, Collaborative, Digital & International Context
My consulting will help you to:
Identify problems and find creative solutions
Manage effectively your creative organisation in the digital realm
Explore hidden resources and opportunities in a strategic and digital context
Fundraise successfully from diverse sources
Elaborate your strategic or business plan
Find collaborators, partners & supporters globally and locally
Improve your international visibility & expand beyond borders
Elaborate the cultural strategy for your city or region
My consulting will help you to:
Identify problems and find creative solutions
Manage effectively your creative organisation
Explore hidden resources and opportunities in a strategic context
Fundraise successfully from diverse sources
Elaborate your strategic or business plan
Find collaborators, partners & supporters
Improve your international visibility & expand beyond borders
Elaborate the cultural strategy for your city or region
Key Consulting Areas
Organisational Development & Change
Strategic Plans
Entrepreneurial Business Plans
Grant Applications & Project Management
Cultural Policy
Entrepreneurial Start-ups
Financing & Fundraising
Capacity Building
Digitalization in the Arts
Environmental Management in the Arts
Types of Clients and Examples
Organisations & start-up companies
– Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg
– Mojito Music, Montreal
Foundations
Educational institutions
– MA Program in Arts Management, Open Society Assistance Foundation Tajikistan
Government authorities
Intergovernmental organisations
Online portals & collaboration tools
– Platform for Intercultural, Europe
– MAXguide, Metro Vancouver
Happy Stories
“As always, Lidia demonstrated academic and conceptual excellence, great capacity for analysis and synthesis and sublime professional vigor. It is always a great pleasure to collaborate with Dr. Varbanova and I am looking forward to working with her again soon.”
Annamari Laaksonen
Research Manager
International Federation of Arts councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA)
August 2016
“Lidia has always impressed me with her strong competence to build diverse partnerships schemes, abilities to analyse a situation, to identify and formulate objectives, to develop a work plan, and implement it efficiently, even in situation of tight deadlines and multiple demands. Her multicultural experience and profound educational background, professional competence and creativity and strong teaching capacity are an asset to our external working team!” (August 2016)
Giannalia Cogliandro Beyens
Secretary General
European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centers (ENCATC)
Brussels, Belgium
knowledge for cultural management and economics, as well as being an excellent researcher, trainer and expert in strategy, management, entrepreneurship and fundraising, but also a recognized art specialist, Lidia Varbanova is one of the few professors and consultants capable of mixing the proactive capacities with a rigorously scientific based approach. Her dedication, passion and professionalism are stunning, and her witty presence is always both a delight and a learning opportunity.” (June 2010)
Corina Suteu
Minister of Culture
Romania
“Lidia was integral in the development and implementation of Metro Vancouver’s regional arts and culture website MAXguide.org. She produced an outstanding Feasibility Study and Business Plan, using well thought research methods. Her “outsider view” was invaluable to the development and implementation of the project and to its longer term success.”
Judy Robertson
Outreach Coordinator,
Stakeholder Engagement,
External Relations
Metro Vancouver
“Lidia Varbanova has taken part in several events, as well as in research and analytical work connected to our major European project SEAS (2003-2010). Her deep experience with cultural policy and management issues, combined with her professional qualities as a researcher, speaker and mentor, made her an essential part of the SEAS program through the years.” (July, 2010)
Chris Torch
Senior Associate
Intercult
Stockholm, Sweden
Program Director
Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture
“As a key consultant and trainer, Dr. Varbanova shows strong abilities to build coalitions of partners, profound competence in cultural management matters and excellent motivational skills. Under her expertise and leadership, top four Tajik universities agreed to cooperate in running a new joint MA program in Arts Management and we believe that this new type of partnership will strengthen the quality of the higher education in the country.”
Ilhom Abdulloev
Executive Director
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation Tajikistan
Happy Stories
“As always, Lidia demonstrated academic and conceptual excellence, great capacity for analysis and synthesis and sublime professional vigor. It is always a great pleasure to collaborate with Dr. Varbanova and I am looking forward to working with her again soon.”
Annamari Laaksonen
Research Manager
International Federation of Arts councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA)
August 2016
“Lidia has always impressed me with her strong competence to build diverse partnerships schemes, abilities to analyse a situation, to identify and formulate objectives, to develop a work plan, and implement it efficiently, even in situation of tight deadlines and multiple demands. Her multicultural experience and profound educational background, professional competence and creativity and strong teaching capacity are an asset to our external working team!” (August 2016)
Giannalia Cogliandro Beyens
Secretary General
European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centers (ENCATC)
Brussels, Belgium
knowledge for cultural management and economics, as well as being an excellent researcher, trainer and expert in strategy, management, entrepreneurship and fundraising, but also a recognized art specialist, Lidia Varbanova is one of the few professors and consultants capable of mixing the proactive capacities with a rigorously scientific based approach. Her dedication, passion and professionalism are stunning, and her witty presence is always both a delight and a learning opportunity.” (June 2010)
Corina Suteu
Minister of Culture
Romania
“Lidia was integral in the development and implementation of Metro Vancouver’s regional arts and culture website MAXguide.org. She produced an outstanding Feasibility Study and Business Plan, using well thought research methods. Her “outsider view” was invaluable to the development and implementation of the project and to its longer term success.”
Judy Robertson
Outreach Coordinator,
Stakeholder Engagement,
External Relations
Metro Vancouver
“Lidia Varbanova has taken part in several events, as well as in research and analytical work connected to our major European project SEAS (2003-2010). Her deep experience with cultural policy and management issues, combined with her professional qualities as a researcher, speaker and mentor, made her an essential part of the SEAS program through the years.” (July, 2010)
Chris Torch
Senior Associate
Intercult
Stockholm, Sweden
Program Director
Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture
“As a key consultant and trainer, Dr. Varbanova shows strong abilities to build coalitions of partners, profound competence in cultural management matters and excellent motivational skills. Under her expertise and leadership, top four Tajik universities agreed to cooperate in running a new joint MA program in Arts Management and we believe that this new type of partnership will strengthen the quality of the higher education in the country.”
Ilhom Abdulloev
Executive Director
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation Tajikistan