Our Team
WolfBrown is a cross-disciplinary team of professional consultants with experience in fundraising, marketing, planning, research, evaluation, program design, arts education and other areas. Our consultants have had distinguished careers as practitioners prior to becoming consultants. In those roles and later in their roles as advisors they have counseled hundreds of organizations – large and small – in almost every state and in numerous countries. Their publications have had impact on a number of fields. They have developed new methodologies and bodies of work which benefit new clients.
In addition to our full-time staff, we maintain ties with a wide range of individuals and firms across the U.S. and internationally, in order to access specialty expertise and create teams that respond to the unique challenges of each assignment.
Alan Brown
Principal
Alan Brown, principal of WolfBrown, is a leading researcher and management consultant in the arts and culture sector worldwide. His work focuses on understanding consumer demand for cultural experiences, evaluating support structures for the arts, and helping cultural institutions...
Dr. Thomas Wolf
Principal
Dr. Thomas Wolf's career spans over four decades and encompasses the fields of philanthropy, education and the arts. He established the Cambridge office of WolfBrown in 1983 after serving as the founding Director of the New England Foundation for the Arts for seven years. His clients have included ...
John Carnwath
Senior Consultant
John Carnwath's work at WolfBrown primarily focuses on arts funding, cultural policy, and related issues of measurement and evaluation. Past projects have included a literature review for Arts Council England on the impact and value of cultural experiences; an assessment of the needs of artists...
Liam Andrew Dillon
Manager, Audience Research Programs
Starting in 2020, Liam Andrew Dillon joined WolfBrown as Manager of Audience Research Programs. He works with clients to provide the best quality services in data analysis and market research while assisting with the Audience Outlook Monitor and Intrinsic Impact programs...
Alan Kline
Director, Audience Research Program
Alan Kline joined WolfBrown in 2017 to manage our audience research programs such as the Intrinsic Impact audience feedback program and the COVID-19 Audience Outlook Monitor. With WolfBrown, he has worked with over a hundred organizations across the country ...
Joseph H. Kluger
Principal
Joseph H. Kluger, a Principal of WolfBrown, has over 30 years of experience as an arts and culture executive and consultant in strategic planning, organizational collaboration, facilities development, governance, executive coaching, executive compensation and succession planning...
Dr. Steven John Holochwost
Principal and Director of Research for Youth & Families
Dr. Steven John Holochwost is Principal and Director of Research for Youth & Families at WolfBrown, where he works with programs designed to improve the lives of vulnerable children and youth. He also holds appointments at Johns Hopkins...
Jane Culbert
Senior Consultant
Jane Culbert provides WolfBrown with expertise in comparative research and financial analysis. She earned her business acumen first-hand, managing the fiscal and related organizational strategies of three of Boston’s cultural institution. She served as Business Manager for ...
Erin Gold
Office Manager & Research Associate
Erin Gold joined WolfBrown’s Detroit office in 2018 to oversee the office’s day-to-day management and provide additional research and writing support. She is an experienced writer, brand builder, and content marketer. Over the course of her career Erin has worked around the world...
Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf
Principal Researcher
Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf, Principal Researcher at WolfBrown, is one of the leading arts education researchers and evaluators in the United States. She holds a doctorate from Harvard where she served as a researcher at Project Zero for more than a decade and then headed Harvard PACE...
Surale Phillips
Principal
Surale Phillips is a distinguished researcher, having guided countless organizations and agencies through research and consulting projects over the past 20 years. Her work focuses on applied research for assessing market demand, informing community cultural plans, building organizational capacity...
Henry Clapp
Research & Program Associate
Henry Clapp joined the Boston office of WolfBrown in 2019 to support the research and evaluation projects of Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf and Dr. Steven Holochwost. He assists primarily on larger projects, particularly on data collection and analysis. Henry has held multiple positions working at the intersection of...
Kathleen Hill
Senior Associate for Research and Outreach
Kathleen joined the Cambridge office of WolfBrown in 2021 to support clients in research, evaluation, and strategic planning efforts. She is a recent graduate from Carnegie Mellon University. While there, she dedicated her studies to the intersections of culture and policy in the hopes of empowering data-driven...