The Australia Council CEO explained a radical initiative to measure intangibles when he launched it at the ArtsHub Conference.
11 Nov 2014
Tony Grybowski
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Photo: Bogabilla Project Photographer: Wendy Kimpton Source: Australia Council
In 2009 we realized we had a challenge. We were talking to many arts organisations about business plans, budgets, governance, KPIs, platforms, reserve levels, etc and there was quite some comments that this governance best practice was compromising the arts and it was corporatizing it at the risk of the arts.
Tony Grybowski is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australia Council for the Arts. Since taking on the role in 2013, Tony has led the Council through its most significant period of reform, resulting in a new arts funding model and approach to strategic arts development.
Tony’s long career in the arts has included leadership roles with a broad range of arts organisations, as well as arts policy work in state and federal government bodies.
In the arts sector Tony has held management roles with the Victorian Arts Centre, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva Australia and the Australian Youth Orchestra. With over a decade working in government bodies His experience includes arts policy development and program delivery in the Victorian Government and five years as Executive Director Arts Organisations with the Australia Council, before taking on the role of Chief Executive.
Tony’s undergraduate studies were in music and education at the University of Melbourne, followed by a Masters of Arts Administration from the University of Technology Sydney and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Prior to working in Government, Tony served on a range of arts Boards and Committees, including the contemporary music ensemble Elision, Youth Music Australia, Arts NSW Music Committee and the advisory Board for the Australian National University Institute for the Arts.
