Carey Pickard
Vice President
cpickard@therightdirection.com
Carey Pickard has served the nonprofit community for more than 20 years, working with a wide range of organizations including museums, symphonies, theaters, colleges, neighborhood revitalization projects and human service agencies.
Before joining The Compass Group, Mr. Pickard served as director and chief executive officer of the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia for more than 12 years. Under his leadership, the museum grew from a small grassroots organization into one of the largest cultural institutions in Georgia. The budget increased by more than 950 percent and the staff increased 15-fold. While there, he raised over $14 million for construction of a new 49,000-square-foot building.
Mr. Pickard volunteers as a board member to numerous organizations including the Booker T. Washington Center, the Cannonball House and Museum, the Center for Racial Understanding, Douglass Theatre, Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, Georgia Equality, Historic Macon Foundation, the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, Macon Arts Alliance, Macon-Bibb County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Macon Council on World Affairs, Macon Symphony Orchestra, NewTown Macon, Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative and the Regional Youth Development Center.
He has also served on the advisory boards of the American Federation for the Arts Directors Forum, Cherry Blossom Festival, Henry Green Center for the Decorative Arts at the Georgia Museum of Art and the New Georgia Encyclopedia. He was a delegate to the White House Conference on Travel and Tourism, a past panelist for the Georgia Council for the Arts and past chair of the Arts Roundtable of Macon.
A native Georgia, Mr. Pickard graduated from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina and the Getty Leadership Institute in Berkeley, California. He was named one of 40 rising stars in business by Georgia Trend Magazine and one of 10 “visionaries” by Macon Magazine. In 1996, he received the Macon Arts Cultural Award.
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