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As we welcome 2025, we would like to celebrate all that happened in 2024.

This past year, we celebrated the groundbreakings of the Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay, in Wisconsin, and the University of New Mexico’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology.  We also were thrilled to cheer the unveiling of the new Baker Theatre and Education Center at Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, Florida.  Other facility projects underway include The Center for Arts and Innovation in Boca Raton, Florida, a new arts center in Woodlands, Texas, and renovations for the Starlight Bowl in Burbank, California.

We were also fortunate to partner with strategic planning clients from the San Francisco Arts Commission to the Miami Children’s Museum and the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York City.

AMS welcomed Lesly Ceballos and LaSaundra Belcher, Ed. D as new members to our team, and grew our Lynette A. Turner Pathways to Consulting Fellowship cohort with three excellent Fellows: Ava Lockamy, James Young, and Twi McCallum.  Speaking of Lynette, we celebrated her well-deserved retirement in February and wished her all the best as she continues the next exciting chapter in her story!

Closer to home, this fall AMS announced that Jon Faris would transition into the role of Managing Director.  Michele Walter, who joined AMS in 2006 and has served as AMS’s Managing Director for more than a decade, continues as a Director at AMS, helping to lead the company alongside Principal Steven A. Wolff and West Coast Director Bill Blake.  We are excited about this transition for our team and its leadership.

As we look to the future, we recognize that the ‘Great Reset’ is still affecting our field; our colleagues are navigating both generational and organizational change with intricate problems and few easy solutions.  We’d love to hear from you about your experience over the last year.  Please drop us a line and tell us how you’re doing.

For those of you who have been clients and collaborators – we thank you! Your commitment, dedication, and resilience continue to motivate us to always do more.  For those we have yet to work with, we look forward to supporting your goals and dreams in 2025 and beyond.

Onward,
The AMS Team

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