Matt Lehrman Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Az

Coach leaders of businesses, nonprofit organizations, and cities and towns to strategically address complex and sensitive matters in ways that leave people feeling heard, respected, and empowered.Conduct market research, focus groups, and public input meetings to recognize an organization’s reality from the perspectives of its staff, customers, and stakeholders.Design & facilitate strategic planning processes explore and achieve consensus around an organization’s possibilities in ways securely grounded by its vision, mission, values, and key objectives.Deliver inspiring conference keynotes plus substantive workshops and webinars, including From Conflict to Conversation; How to Sustain Donors in Turbulent Times; How to Ask for $ in Tough Times, and; Return to Revenue/Relevance Produce and host Tell Me More…, a weekly podcast that brings together a diverse group of people to discuss how and why they disagree on matters of public policy – but with the courage to be explicit, respectful, inquisitive, and vulnerable in ways that are too often missing in civic affairs.

Matt Lehrman presents original workshops to CEO’s, business owners and key executives as a national speaker to VISTAGE®, the world’s leading business advisory and executive coaching organization.ENGAGEMENT EVERYWHERE™: HOW TO ELEVATE YOUR CUSTOMERS FROM APATHY TO ZEALDiscover your company's power to inspire truly legendary customer loyalty. Jam-packed with actionable strategies, you and your team will emerge from this training as champions of customer engagement, with the ability to apply a cohesive framework to your responsibilities to attract new customers; deepen their relationships, cultivate business for the future, diversify your clientele and offer a quality of engagement that is both mindful and purposeful.TESTIMONIAL FROM A VISTAGE GROUP LEADER:"True to the title of Matt’s presentation, “Engagement Everywhere”, that is exactly what he did when he brought his subject matter expertise to a Group meeting recently…Everyone Was Engaged. It is immediately obvious that Matt is a domain expert and shares his knowledge base in a manner that will elevate your company’s value proposition. The key is – you have to hear his presentation, participate in the exercises and apply. While the businesses in the Group were all very diverse, Matt’s process and matrix were proven to universally translate to work in a wide range of businesses. Like Project Management, Lean and Six Sigma tools, Matt’s toolkit is applicable to a host of professionals and their varying companies." - Katina Koller, Strategic Advisor & Chair, Tucson, AZ

Herberger Institute For Design And The Arts

Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in arts marketing and entrepreneurship for the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.• Graduate Seminar in Arts Marketing (THP 598), Fall Semester, 2017• Design & Arts Business Management (HDA 420), Spring Semester, 2015• Arts & Cultural Entrepreneurship (THP 452/598), Spring Semesters, 2012, 2013, & 2014• Arts & Public Policy (ARA 498/591), Fall Semester, 2012Presented original half-day workshops on Skills of Public Dialogue, for the Certified Public Manager® program within the School of Public Affairs’ Bob Ramsey Executive Education division.

Arizona

Steered the beloved, 50-year-old, $7 million company through a dire period of financial, governance, and management instability; substantially restored organizational integrity, trust, and operational teamwork.Managed 8 direct reports, 55 full-time staff, and a total team of nearly 200. Led Board of Directors through an intensive 6-month strategic planning process to empower new leadership while healing severely wounded staff, stakeholder, sponsor, subscriber, and community relationships.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Conceived and established an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to pursue collaborative audience development initiatives on behalf of the Arizona’s statewide arts & cultural community. Pioneered new technology-driven approaches to promoting arts & cultural participation, selling discount tickets, and analyzing aggregate cultural participation data.Secured grants, corporate sponsorships and innovated an entrepreneurial business plan that surpassed a $500,000 operating budget operated by a 7-member professional staff. Recognized as “Best Cheerleader for the Arts” by the Arizona Republic which wrote, “For some, arts marketing is a career. For Lehrman, it's a calling … His enthusiasm is genuine and infectious.”Co-organized Project Audience, an international think tank convened by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to originate and advance new technologies for collaborative audience development.Served as a grants review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Arizona Community Foundation.

Directed marketing and communications strategies for the 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency contracted by the City of Scottsdale to manage the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and all the City’s cultural affairs.Managed a staff of 9 professionals with responsibilities for graphic design, public relations, database management, copywriting, group sales, and box office.Achieved $1 million in annual ticket sales for the Center’s first time, as of June 30, 1996. Subsequently surpassed $3.4 million in ticket sales as of June 30, 2001, in support of increasingly ambitious programming.Directed marketing and communications throughout the multi-year preparation for the February 1999 launch of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA).

Initiated a new position to introduce marketing expertise to a 120-attorney law firm, encompassing prospect-identification and cultivation strategies.

Conceived and implemented the strategic marketing plan for a failing community bank contributing to its recovery and achievement of highest possible ratings for financial strength.

Solicited the banking relationships of large corporations, affluent individuals and business executives & professionals; Represented all banking functions, including investment, cash management, commercial lending and international services.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Designed policy options as Federal lobbyist for banking and mortgage finance concerns; Authored testimony and personally lobbied Members of Congress, Congressional staff, and Federal agency staff.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Identified and analyzed Federal legislative and regulatory revisions affecting FHA, VA and conventional mortgage insurance programs and consumer lending law; Represented Association positions to the Federal regulatory agencies.

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