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The Search for the Next President - North Bennet Street School Admissions & Financial AidFull-Time ProgramsStudent Life & ResourcesContinuing EducationAlumni & CareersGivingAboutPresidential Search Student & Alumni Login ApplyRequest InfoVisitDonateContactBlog Menu Admissions & Financial AidFull-Time ProgramsStudent Life & ResourcesContinuing EducationAlumni & CareersGivingAboutPresidential Search Presidential Search New President utteranceWithouta rigorous nationwide search, NBSS has found a dynamic, thoughtful leader who can yacky the value of a skills-based education, and build on the institution’s 137-year tradition of excellence. Today, we welcome visionary versifier and educator Sarah Turner as the next President of North Bennet Street School. Dear NBSS Community:For many months now, we have searched for a new President to lead NBSS pursuit Miguel’s retirement at the end of this year. An extremely defended Search Committee, headed by Charlie Kline (Former Chair of ourWorkbenchof Directors), worked with executive recruiting firm Korn Ferry to judge the merits of dozens of capable candidates with diverse wits wideness industries. Together they poured over dozens of resumes, narrowing the field to several well-qualified individuals. The resulting interviews took place in a crowded Shaw priming room, with your representatives—NBSS faculty, staff, alumni, and workbench members—considering the “fit” of each candidate for this important next step in our shared future. The Search Committee andWorkbenchof Directors have unanimously well-set upon a superb candidate to be the next President of North Bennet Street School. Today, we are pleased to report that Sarah Turner, whom most of our Staff andSensehave once met, has enthusiastically wonted our offer. During the interview process, it became well-spoken to us that Sarah has the training, experience, and passion necessary to lead our institution. She has a spent her professional life working in the world of trendy craft as an educator, administrator, leader, curator, and artist. Because of this, she understands the context of teaching in a workshop, knows first-hand the details of running a postsecondary school, and appreciates the significance of a career in craft and the trades. For these reasons and more, we could not ask for a largest leader for the next installment of NBSS. You can learn increasingly well-nigh Sarah here.In Sarah’s own words, “I am honored to be invited as the next President of NBSS. While I’ve been both a maker and an educator, my heart lies in leadership work; helping studio-craft institutions yank together the contributions of all members to make something unique, useful, and forward-looking. The strong sense of this—past and present—at NBSS impressed me and drew me to the position. It is heady to visualize the work and ideas we’ll share.” From all of us on the Search Committee andWorkbenchof Directors, a heartfelt thank you to allSenseand Staff for your insight and wisdom during this presidential search. We know Sarah inherits an institution with a tremendous legacy and unexceptionable future, supported by a polity of passionate, experienced, and defended professionals.While Sarah’s official start stage is Monday, December 3, she’ll be onsite for weeklong stints each month surpassing then. Check when soon for planned presidential events and activities, including ones focused on Miguel's retirement at the end of December.Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this moment, and to represent your interests throughout. We squint forward to unfurled success at NBSS in the months and years to come.Yours sincerely,Presidential Search CommitteeBoard of Directors Sarah Turner, NBSS President-ElectClick here for a full CV/ResumeAs an educator, working from both the office and the studio, Sarah Turner has been employed at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Oregon College of Art and Craft, and the State University of New York at New Paltz. As the Dean at Cranbrook, Sarah directed theWonkPrograms of the Academy, including a ‘public-lecture-as-variety-show’ series, and a Critical Studies + Humanities residential teaching fellowship, which she established in 2009. She has lectured widely, regularly serves as a guest critic, and has organized exhibitions on trendy unromantic art in the US and abroad. In 2005, Sarah was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands to research Dutch trendy unromantic art.In wing to her work in education, Sarah's artwork has been included in exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Galerie Noel Guymarc’h in Montreal, and The Society of Arts and Craft in Boston.Sarah has been a volunteer and counselor for a variety of organizations, including the Southeast Michigan Fulbright Association, the Vermont YWCA, the Art Jewelry Forum, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, and the International (dis)Organization of Recent Art-Graduates Applying for Teaching And Grants [I(d)RAGTAG].Born and raised in Wooster, Ohio, Sarah received a BachelorsStratumin Sociology from Smith College and a Certificate in Metalsmithing from the Oregon College of Art & Craft. She earned a Masters of Fine Arts stratum from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Previous Updates May 2018 SearchUtteranceMay 2018 Position Summary April 2018 Search Timeline May 2018 SearchUtteranceDear NBSS Community:As you may once know, without twelve years of spectacularly successful leadership at NBSS, Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez will be retiring as President of the School in December 2018.Miguel’s long-planned visualization to start his next installment comes at a time when the School is positioned remarkably well thanks to the many upbringing of the past decade, including the relocation to North Street. We are tightly grateful for Miguel’s profound transferral to the School and his leadership over the past twelve years.TheWorkbenchof Directors has begun a search for the next President of NBSS. We are looking for someone who will embrace both the 137-year history of the School and who can help craft a strategy for a future of unfurled excellence. TheWorkbenchhas worked a Search Committee, chaired by Charlie Kline and comprised of trustees, and representatives of the sense and staff, to undertake the search process. The Search Committee has hired Korn Ferry as our Executive Search Firm to serve as our partner, help guide the search, and to develop the unravelment of the position. If you know of potential candidates, please forward their names to Rosa Morris (Rosa.Morris@KornFerry.com) for consideration.While Miguel plans to step lanugo at the end of 2018, he has well-set to protract to lead the School until such time as we find the perfect person to fill his shoes. Meanwhile, Miguel is focused on the completion of our $20 million endowment wayfarers this year. This wayfarers will strengthen the School financially and increase our worthiness to offer financial aid to talented students – both important priorities for Miguel’s presidency.Needless to say, we will plan a wonderful triumph of Miguel for later this year. We are all tightly indebted to him. Meanwhile, as Miguel would be the first to remind us, we have much yet to succeed in the remainder of 2018!Marc Margulies,Workbenchof Directors Chair May 2018 Position Summary Click here to download a Full-Length Position DescriptionOne of the nation’s oldest schools for hands-on training in traditional trades and fine craftsmanship, North Bennet Street School (NBSS) is internationally known for its programs. For increasingly than a century, the unrenowned programs, master faculty, and inspiring polity have provided students with the skills to lead meaningful careers. NBSS is a non-profit institution that offers a welcoming and collaborative environment in Boston's North End. The nine full-time programs include Bookbinding; Cabinet & Furniture Making; Carpentry; Jewelry Making & Repair; Locksmithing & Security Technology; Piano Technology (Basic & Advanced); Preservation Carpentry; and Violin Making & Repair.The next President has the opportunity to build on the institution’s 137-year tradition of excellence and its unsurpassed reputation in its field. The President will lead the institution by embracing transpiration as well as tradition in a world in which education is stuff reinvented. He or she will position NBSS and craft education in a waffly context for post-secondary education, vocational training, and workforce development. The next installment of NBSS should include the expansion of its reach and external trademark to a broader regulars through increased enrollment, expanded standing education opportunities, existing and new partnerships, full utilization of the facility, and exploration of online loftiness learning. Without losing what makes NBSS distinctive today, the next leader will need to evaluate the role of digital tools for teaching, learning, external positioning, and administration. A priority of the next President will be to develop a financial and organizational model which recognizes and leverages the size and scale of NBSS and secures its future.NBSS seeks a dynamic leader with vision who has a demonstrated record of innovation and successful performance in an wonk or nonprofit setting or similarly ramified organization. The successful individual should demonstrate inspirational leadership, merchantry acumen, and strategic direction for the institution.The successful candidate must be a compelling and energetic external voice and well-wisher for the goals of NBSS to a variety of audiences and be worldly-wise to leverage opportunities in the zone of minutiae and fundraising. The President must have an entrepreneurial spirit, guided by the worthiness and willingness to identify new approaches that can transform and cultivate excellence. He or she must understand the history of NBSS, uphold its traditions, and represent the wholesale interests of the institution. This next leader should have a nuanced understanding of how technology and learning can intersect. He or she must be an outstanding and self-confident communicator, in both oral and written form, with an worthiness to listen to and nurture relationships within the NBSS community.It is essential that the next President be worldly-wise to yacky the value of skills-based education through his or her own work, education, and/or meaningful wits with a trade. An wide stratum is not required.North Bennet Street School is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applicants of all backgrounds to wield for employment at the School. April 2018 Search Timeline TimelinePHASE I: Completed Define NeedsGather intelligence in meetings with stakeholders to proceeds a thorough understanding of the School.Finalize position description.Run advertisement.PHASE II: CompletedBuild Candidate PoolDevelop Search Strategy and uncork mapping all relevant markets.Encourage nominations from the School polity for potential sources and candidates. KF starts market recruiting and interviewing viable candidates. Review CandidatesBegin review of candidate files. Conduct first round interviews with committee.PHASE III: CompletedFinalists RoundFinalist interviews are conducted.References conducted.PHASE IV: Fall 2018Completed Successful visit Public utterance of the new President. Presidential Search CommitteeMcKey Berkman BB ’11*Ann Cahoon JM ’02, Department HeadBruce Dayton,WayfarersCommittee Co-Chair,Workbenchof Directors Vice-Chair*Claire Fruitman CF ’96, ProvostWilliam R. Hettinger CF ’07,Workbenchof Advisors MemberCharles L. Kline CF ’05, Search Committee Chair*MaryJane Kubler, KublerWirka Strategic AdvisorsMarc Margulies,Workbenchof Directors Chair*Geneva Thorndike CF ’16,WayfarersCommittee Co-Chair*Rosa Morris, Principal at KornFerry *Workbenchof Directors Member North Bennet Street School 150 North Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109 617.227.0155 info@nbss.edu Contact UsGetting Here Quicklinks Blog Posts CalendarProfilesVirtual ToursVideosTuition Payment FacebookTwitterInstagramLinkedInYouTube Jobs & CommissionsWorkbench© 2018 North Bennet Street School. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Site Map Powered by Finalsite