Confed Centre CEO leaving for family, school and travel

The CEO of the Confederation Centre of the Arts is resigning to spend more time with family, travel the world and pursue a masters degree.

The centre announced on Monday thatits CEO, Jessie Inman, would be stepping down from the position July 25 after seven years at the helm.On Tuesday,Inman detailed her resignation plans withMainstreetP.E.I.

• Confederation Centre CEO resigning this summer

The whole program touched me deeply and ittouched everyone who saw it. Jessie Inman

The idea to resign came up after celebrating her husband's70thbirthday in Chile in January, she said. Sherealized she wanted more time to explore the world,spend time with family as well as pursue a master's degree from home.

"We do a lot of adventure travel and have done that for the past 20 years and we want to do a lot more and we have to stay fit to do that," she said.

"And also I'm a lifelong learner, I'm going to apply to go back to school next year."

Dreamcatchers one of her fondest memories

Though Inman will leave the Confederation Centre in July at the time of the centre's AGM she saidthe Charlottetown Festival will be in full swing and it should make for an easier handoff to the new CEO.

It should also give the board sufficient time to find a new CEO, she added.

Looking back on her time at the Confederation Centre so far, Inman said her proudest accomplishments include the theatre's renovations, arts education initiative, the world premiere of theEvangelinemusical as well as 2017's TheDreamcatchers which Inman called "the most powerful project" she'sever been involved with.

"The whole program touched me deeply and it touched everyone who saw it," she said.

"I am very proud we were able to contribute to the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Report."

The centre said the search for a new CEObegins immediately so that someone is in place when Inman's resignation takes effect.

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