RESEARCH, PRESENTATIONS, & PUBLICATIONS:

Dr. Sherene Suchy is an independent scholar who marries research and a business mindset with artistic flair. Originally trained as a Social Worker, she has post-graduate qualifications in management and the arts. Sherene researches and writes from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Sherene usually presents one conference paper a year offering creative insights for anyone interested in leadership, change management, organisation development, and heritage.

Dr. Suchy has built unique bridges between management theory, organisational psychology, and the arts that are applicable to nonprofit, public, and private sector organisations.

Families & Museums: Partnerships for Provenance (2009)
Talk about Town Conference. Institute of Public History Monash University. Melbourne.


Leadership Development Through Creative Cross-Disciplinary Sabbaticals (2008).
International Engendering Leadership conference. University of Western Australia. Perth.


Emotional Intelligence, Passion and Museum Leadership (2007).
Chapter 15 in Museum Management and Marketing. (Ed) Richard Sandell & Robert Janes. Taylor & Francis


Family Memory Making: How to Use Family Memories for Provenance Projects. (2006).
Publication pending.


Museum Management: Emotional Value and Community Engagement (2006)
International Committee for Museum Management conference. Taiwan.
Available through ICOM (Paris) or the Chinese Association of Museums (Taiwan).


Connection and Recollection: Museum Missions in the 21st C. (2006)
published in Museum Philosophy for the 21st Century edited by Hugh Genoways

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Family Memory Making: Oral History, Reminiscence, and Sites for Healing. (2006)
International Oral History Association Conference, Sydney.


Cultural Consumers and Emotional Connection: Community Engagement (2005)
Paper presented at Museums Australia National Conference, Sydney.


Leading with Passion - Change Management in the 21st-Century Museum (2004)
‘Leading with Passion’ is a brilliant textbook for all managers.  It is a wonderfully insightful look at what is required to be a successful leader of an art museum – and by extension, a successful manager in general. (click here for review comments)

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Who Comes After Me? Succession Planning (2003)
Paper presented at the Museums and Galleries Foundation Conference. Sydney, Australia.


Personal Change and Leadership Development: Process of Learning How to Learn (2002)
ICOM Studies Series, UNESCO, Paris


Coaching Intercultural Competence: The Global Museologist (2002)
International Committee for Training of Personnel Conference. ICOM. New Delhi, India.


Selling Integrity: The Entrepreneurial Museum (2001)
Paper presented at The New Wave: Entrepreneurship and the Arts Symposium. Bowater School of Management and Marketing. Deakin University. Melbourne, Australia.


Questions of Leadership - Planning Ahead (2001)
Volunteers - Professionalising the Muses (2001)
Museum National, Vol. 9, No. 3. Australia.


Developing Leaders for the 21st Century Museum (2000)
ICOM/Canadian Museum Association Leadership Conference. Canada.


Grooming New Millennium Museum Directors (2000)
Museum International (UNESCO, Paris), No. 206, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 59-64


Emotional Intelligence, Passion and Museum Leadership (1999)
Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 57-71 UK: Elsevier Science Ltd


Professionalizing the Muses (1999)
World Federation of Friends of Museums Conference. Sydney, Australia.


An International Study on the Director's Role in Art Museum Leadership (1998)
Doctoral research mapping change, challenge and the museum director’s role completed at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Papers presented at Museums Australia conferences (1995) and the International Council of Museums conference (1998).