About PMDLI
Public media leaders across the country are grappling with the systems changes necessary to build workplaces, boards, content, and audiences in a new and shifting national landscape. Today’s heightened levels of division in American institutions have increased the importance of these organizations fulfilling their mission and reaching broader audiences.
Program Overview
At this critical moment, National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) is partnering with the Riley Institute at Furman University to offer PMDLI. Launched in 2021, the PMDLI has become an important element of the ongoing professional development pathway that supports public media leadership in this work.
PMDLI is a highly interactive virtual program designed with the unique needs of public media in mind. The curriculum incorporates collaborative problem solving, scenario exercises, case studies and audio/video analyses to introduce leadership frameworks and tools to build engaged, high performing teams. Participants will explore selected best practices already in place within public media and new content tailored to examine challenges, themes, and topics identified by the group. Cohorts convene virtually in five workshop days over five months.
Participants are selected from applicants across the country to reflect the public media ecosystem—region served, audience, station licensee type, affiliate organizations—as well as various functional and vocational roles, levels, and responsibilities. Graduates of the program are eligible to nominate future participants thus building a growing network of leaders who’ve shared the experience of PMDLI and are equipped to collectively advance the work across the system.
The cost of PMDLI is $2,000 per participant.
For information: Tinia Milhouse-Lazenby, Director of Culture and Learning, NETA, [email protected],or Megan Dodgens, Director for the Center of Diversity Strategies, [email protected].mailto:[email protected]
PMDLI rosters
Meet the PMDLI team
Juan Johnson
Megan Dodgens
