TOC Arts Partners (formerly Tom O’Connor Consulting Group) is a national consultancy aligning strategies, structures, and leadership toward a thriving cultural sector. The team at TOC Arts Partners brings a rigorous practice of field-leading executive search methods along with a depth of experience in the not-for-profit arts field as direct practitioners.

Founded in 2015 to offer executive search and strategy to the arts and culture field, we’ve had the privilege of working alongside more than 150 arts and culture client partners in 25 states and across 11 unique genres, from stages to screens, museums to municipalities. These include both our strategy and executive search clients—including over 100 searches for executive and senior leaders.

We believe in the role of cultural organizations as leaders in community connection and the expansion of empathy and understanding. As a firm, TOC Arts Partners prioritizes listening to the needs of our client organizations’ communities and crafting processes that meet them, all while maintaining a clear focus on candidate care.

We believe that the arts have a transformative effect on individuals and communities in both the short and long term, and that meaningful impact isn’t possible without healthy and equitable systems in place. Those systems require the right strategy, resources, and people. We focus on all three—to help realize an arts industry that gives organizations the support to grow and engage diverse audiences and