Arts and Nonprofit Consultant, Coach, and More.
“How can I help you do your work?”
That’s the driving question behind my all of my work.
I’m an enabler. I’m a facilitator. I’m an ally in your work to change the world for the better.
I want to learn about your work and do my best to help you achieve your mission and goals.
And I can support you in the following ways…
Consulting
I work with arts and nonprofit organizations, established leaders, and emerging leaders to help to clarify your mission/values and ensure that you can create meaningful social change through your work. I’m particularly interested in issues in the arts and culture field around program design/management, organizational change and innovation, community engagement, impact, and team effectiveness.
I bring decades of experience and expertise in the arts and culture sector as a leader, designer, and implementer and can provide research services, technical advice, or share a dual outsider-insider perspective on how organizations and leaders can break through and make progress towards your goals.
As a consultant, I have an independent practice and also work on other projects in partnership with other consulting professionals.
Coaching
My mission as a coach is to partner with individuals in building fulfilling purpose-driven careers, businesses, and lives. Through a generative inquiry process, we work together to maximize your personal and professional potential. We look at how you can be more effective, be more efficient, and truly embody your values through your work. Whatever your professional goals, we will work together as a team to make them a reality.
While I provide expertise in the coaching process, you are the expert in creating meaningful change. I will be there at your side as a thought partner and guide supporting you every step of the way.
As a coach, I work independently and with NAS’ Leadership Coaching program.
And More
I am also a convener, facilitator, speaker/trainer, and community builder. I have experience planning national conferences as well as smaller custom-built trainings, both in-person and online, on a wide variety of arts and nonprofit topics.
If you are thinking about how to work through a certain issue, please reach out for an initial conversation. I enjoy thinking through possible ways to address sticky and persistent issues and designing appropriate interventions that get organizations moving forward. Let’s get you out of your state of uncertainty and indecisiveness and find a way to actively address this issue.
I believe in the simple power of conversations with colleagues. If you’re interested in having an experienced arts and nonprofit leader serve as a thought partner, a strategy/tactics advisor, a sounding board, a compassionate colleague, or a sympathetic ear for you… I’m happy to chat and facilitate a way to for you to move forward!
A little mantra that is behind my work:
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.” — Dolly Parton
About Jonas
With nearly two decades of experience working with arts and culture and nonprofits, Jonas Cartano is consultant, coach, program designer/manager, and facilitator based in New York City. Most importantly, Jonas is an arts and culture and nonprofit geek and an experienced leader with a genuine desire to serve the field and help arts leaders achieve their goals.
Jonas was a partner and co-founder of Third Eye Cultural Collaborative, a boutique consulting firm dedicated to strengthening our cultural ecosystem by enhancing the impact of small to mid-size organizations by providing strategy, organizational development, and innovation support services that enrich arts and culture organizations and leaders. Third Eye Cultural Collaborative disbanded as a business entity in late 2022 after seven years of work in the arts and culture sector. As an executive and leadership coach, he has an independent practice and also works with clients through NAS’ Leadership Coaching program.
His own work is grounded in arts education, program design and development, and organizational change. He has designed and produced education programs for students, teachers, adults, and arts professionals and has a genuine interest in organizational innovation and adaptive leadership development. He has held staff positions at The Metropolitan Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and EmcArts and worked on projects with Opera America, The New York Philharmonic, and Project Zero at Harvard University. Mixing business with pleasure, Jonas is lifelong choral singer was the Director of Programs at Chorus America and has performed, served in board and administrative positions with a wide range of choruses in New York City, Boston, and Washington DC.
A believer in contributing through thoughtful nonprofit boards, Jonas has served as a board member for a variety of small and startup arts nonprofit organizations. He is especially interested in supporting emerging organizations with an emphasis on arts and social impact. He currently serves on the board of Broken Box Mime Theater in NYC. He recently served on the board of Carleton College’s Alumni Admissions Representatives program and its Alumni Annual Fund, which are widely recognized models of alumni volunteer programs in college admissions and fundraising, respectively. Jonas has a Certificate of Nonprofit Board Consulting from BoardSource.
Jonas earned his BA in Music from Carleton College, his EdM in Arts in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and was a member of the inaugural class to receive an Executive Diploma in Arts and Culture Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania and National Arts Strategies. He was a member of the inaugural class of National Arts Strategies’ Leadership Coaching Training Program and is accredited as an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation.
Jonas is based in New York City and is trying to learn bass guitar player and Portuguese and is currently barely tolerable at both.