Navigating Digital Change

All sessions held on Zoom, unless stated otherwise.

Cohort induction session Tues 13 May (morning)

A half-day online workshop to introduce you to the programme and target outcomes, for you to get to know each other and to set your organisational and individual priorities.

Individual welcome call between Weds 14 and Fri 16 May

A one-hour call with the programme facilitators to find out more about you and your organisation. This will help us to tailor future content to topics that are most useful to you.

Deep Dive 1: Adapting business models and ways of working

Tues 24 June (afternoon) and Weds 25 June (morning)

Across two half-day sessions you will hear from a diverse range of expert speakers, with time for discussion and facilitated activities to share peer learning. Topics will include:

• Where are you now? Understanding digital maturity using the Digital Culture Compass
• Aligning digital strategy with your organisation’s values and mission
• Encouraging and sustaining effective innovation
• Using frameworks to set and track strategic goals
• Skills for leadership and change management
• Healthy and inclusive ways of working digitally
• Data and evaluation: understanding analytics and frameworks for tracking digital outcomes

Deep Dive 2: Growing and engaging audiences

Weds 8 October, all-day in person session, central London venue (travel costs covered)

An opportunity to meet the other leaders in your cohort in person and explore how digital technology can help grow audience or visitor engagement with your organisation.

Topics will include:

• Creative digital content formats and programming
• Overview of digital production processes
• Content distribution strategies that build value
• Gaining insights from audience data: key metrics to track

Cohort masterclasses

Three two-hour sessions: Weds 16 Sep (morning), Weds 12 Nov (morning), Tues 13 Jan (morning)

Topics will be programmed based on cohort priorities identified during the induction session and individual welcome calls. This might include:

• Understanding and developing audiences for digital content
• Managing digital IP and rights licencing in cultural projects
• Digital business models and revenue generation
• Change management in a digital context
• Uses and ethics of Artificial Intelligence in cultural organisations
• Approaches to data management and reporting
• Protecting your organisation and staff from online abuse
• Ensuring accessible and inclusive digital experiences
• Using digital technology in an environmentally responsible way

Mentoring: three 1-hour sessions, Oct 2025 to Feb 2026

Participants will receive three confidential mentoring sessions. You will be matched with a mentor following the completion of the second deep-dive session in September, to ensure your mentor is well placed to offer expert advice and guidance on an area of need specific to you.

Reflections Session Tues 10 Feb 2026 (morning)

The formal part of the programme will end with a half-day workshop to identify key learnings and next steps for you and your organisation and to inform The Space’s thinking about future support for cultural leaders.

Ongoing Peer Learning

You will be invited to join informal quarterly peer learning sessions with your cohort in 2026-27 to help extend and embed your learning from the programme.