NEILL ARCHER ROAN leads The Roan Group, a cultural strategy consulting company based in Washington, DC. The firm's clientele includes state and federal agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and private sector firms throughout North America. Roan has consulted in healthcare, the environment, publishing, entertainment, arts, charitable foundation, association management, education, and architectural sectors. .

Mr. Roan is a gold- and silver-medal-winning art director and creative director whose national and international awards for marketing, branding, communications, and fundraising number in the hundreds. He is an avid amateur photographer and enjoys travel, literature, fine arts press, and art collecting.

He is a published poet, author, lecturer, keynote speaker, and former university professor who has lectured or taught at Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Oregon, the University of Nebraska, the University of Rhode Island, American University, and others.

Mr. Roan is most recently published in   nationally renown artist Cathie Bleck’s book, Open Spaces, where his essay - Discovering Cathie Bleck - appears.

Mr. Roan’s book, Scale + Timbre, an architecture book about the Canadian architect, Bing Thom, and the development of Vancouver’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts was released in November 2002 by British publisher Black Dog Press in hard cover.

Well-known for his reasoned and passionate advocacy of the arts, Mr. Roan served as a Director and Treasurer of the American Arts Alliance. He is a former 2 two-term President of Oregon Advocates for the Arts and a former Director of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and the Western Arts Alliance.

Mr. Roan speaks extensively about the role of the arts in shaping communities, impacting economies and influencing public policy.

In 1993, he chaired the National Endowment for the Arts' Presenting and Commissioning Large Institution’s panel, and has also served as a panelist in the Arts Education and Music Recording programs of the NEA.

Mr. Roan’s artistic vision was shaped by a fifteen-year career as a professional, internationally known performing artist with performances in Europe, South America, Asia, and Canada. He was described as an “excellent master of his craft” by John Rockwell of The New York Times after his final Carnegie Hall appearance in March 1986.