Helping museums do better work together.

I help museum professionals create clearer, healthier, and more effective ways of working through facilitated learning, speaking, and strategic advisory grounded in the realities of museum projects and organizations today.

Museum work is project work.

Exhibitions. Conservation. Digitization initiatives. Technology implementations.

Museums deliver projects, yet few have practices or structures for how that work should happen.

Projects make the organization visible. They reveal how priorities are set, decisions are made, resources are allocated, and departments work together.

I help museum professionals see patterns and improve how they plan, communicate, decide, collaborate, and learn.

Better project management is not about incorporating rigid systems. It is about making ambitious work more possible—and less unnecessarily difficult.

The Museum Project Circle

A Different Way to Learn

The Museum Project Circle is a free monthly space for museum professionals to examine real project challenges together.

Participants bring the questions, tensions, and situations they are navigating. I facilitate the conversation, connect recurring patterns, and introduce practical frameworks when they are useful.

It is not another webinar or a place to collect more advice. It is a place to think more clearly, learn from peers, and strengthen how museum work gets done well together.

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Real challenges from real museum professionals

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Facilitated, structured conversations

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Practical tools without the jargon

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Leave with ideas, solutions, or new connections

Ways to Work With Me

Speaking engagements, workshops, and retreats that help museum professionals understand why projects strain, what those difficulties reveal, and how shared practices can create greater clarity, collaboration, and organizational alignment—without importing a generic corporate playbook across your institution.

Focused advisory for museum leaders and teams navigating complex projects, organizational change, digital transformation, or recurring collaboration problems. Together, we clarify the system, strengthen decisions, identify patterns of strain, and build an approach your team can confidently carry forward.

Ideas, frameworks, and practical tools for people managing museum work. My forthcoming book, articles, and future resources connect project methods with organizational culture, leadership, governance, collaboration, and value delivery—without adding unnecessary complexity or bureaucracy for the realities of museums.

Museums do meaningful work.

The way that work happens matters too.

Let’s create project practices that support the people, ideas, and institutions behind it.

  • Consistently exceeding my expectations, Uma played a key role in developing a strategic plan that considered various factors such as capacity, resources, advancing DEAI initiatives, and gaining senior leadership buy-in.

    Michele Ciaccio

    Managing Editor, Getty Research Institute

  • Uma has the initiative to see what needs to happen, what she wants to happen, and makes it happen.

    Angela Williamson

    Volunteer Manager, Hagley Museum and Library