Designing Power: How Organizations Can Examine Shared Leadership Models with Devon Berkshire and Miranda Gonzalez

09/10/2025 39 min
Designing Power: How Organizations Can Examine Shared Leadership Models with Devon Berkshire and Miranda Gonzalez

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What if adding more leaders isn’t the solution—and sometimes makes things worse? We dig into the real work behind shared leadership in nonprofit arts with guests Devon Berkshire and Miranda Gonzalez, tracing why so many theaters moved beyond the traditional AD/MD model and what it actually takes to decentralize power without breaking your culture. We follow the arc of this conversation in organizations from trend to practice, unpacking the difference between shared leadership and shared responsibility, and how “move fast and break things” becomes “move slow and build trust.”Go read the Howlround series here: The Evolution of Shared Leadership - https://howlround.com/series/evolution-shared-leadership-theatre

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