Cathryn Mattson
Executive Director & CEO
Cathryn Mattson is a seasoned executive who has worked domestically and globally across various industries and sectors. She has held senior leadership positions in Fortune 100 companies and leading nonprofits throughout her career.
In 2013, she launched Mattson Coaching, an executive coaching and strategy consulting practice serving corporate, nonprofit and government clients. Through this practice, Cathryn has guided clients in developing their full leadership potential, strengthening their communication and interpersonal skills, and building effective strategies to achieve desired business outcomes.
Before founding her own business, Cathryn was a Partner and Chief Administrative Officer for the Bridgespan Group, a leading social impact consultant and advisor to nonprofits, NGOs, philanthropists, and investors. She led all operating functions of the firm and critical strategic initiatives, including re-branding and improvements to financial systems/reporting and human resources processes. In addition, Cathryn spent twenty years with Bestfoods and Unilever Bestfoods after their merger. During that time, she held the positions of Senior Director of Strategy and Business Intelligence, Corporate Director of Government Relations, Corporate Director of the Values and Policies Office and had P&L responsibility for several businesses.
She has also served as Chief Operating Officer for Tiger21, a premier learning group for high-net-worth investors, and Women’s World Banking, a global network of microfinance institutions dedicated to providing financial services to low-income women for entrepreneurial activity.
She began her career in education and the arts as a Program Director for the South Carolina Arts Commission. Then, she relocated to New York City to become the Artistic Director for NY Young Audiences, which provided concerts and artist residencies for the NYC public schools. She later became the Executive Director of the Theater at St. Peter’s, an off-Broadway theater. In addition, she has provided consulting services and executive coaching to numerous arts organizations.
With her deep love for and commitment to the arts, Cathryn has championed programs that promote equal access to arts experiences in diverse urban and rural communities. She has served on the boards of various arts organizations, most recently the Board of Overseers of the Boston Ballet, where she was a member of the Education/Community Outreach and Finance committees.
Throughout her career, Cathryn has focused on building high-performing teams and fostering a positive, collaborative work environment. In each role, she committed to sharpening strategic focus, ensuring a sustainable economic infrastructure, and
nurturing professional development for staff.
Cathryn’s educational background includes an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from the Columbia Business School and a BA magna cum laude in English/Spanish from Tufts University. Additionally, she has completed leadership programs at the Aspen Institute and the Center for Creative Leadership and received her coaching certification from the Newfield Network.
Cathryn enjoys attending visual and performing arts events in her leisure time as well as pursuing her own music as a singer and pianist.
Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon
Chief Curator
Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon is the Chief Curator at the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL. She received an MA in Visual Culture in 2003 and a BA with Honors in Culture, Media and Communication (2001) both from Lancaster University, UK. She also holds a DEUG (Diplôme d’Etudes Universitaires Générales, Associates equivalent) in Language Sciences and Cultural Mediation (1999) from Université Paul Cézanne/Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Born in France, Coralie was raised in the heart of the Sahara desert in Niger, Africa. She has worked in museums and art galleries across the globe, including 4 years with Folly Gallery in the Lake District, UK; 3 years as a Creative Project Manager and Exhibitions Officer for the contemporary urban art museum URBIS in Manchester, UK; 3 years in the Middle East, as Gallery Director of The Third Line gallery in Doha, Qatar, and as an Independent Art Consultant in Beirut, Lebanon.
In Orlando, she volunteered as an associate curator for Snap! Orlando from 2011-2013; and worked as a Gallery Director for Jai Gallery from 2013-2017. Coralie joined the Orlando Museum of Art in January 2018, as an Associate Curator; was promoted to Curator in September 2022; and then to interim Head of the Collections & Exhibitions department in February 2023.
She has curated many exhibitions including 100 Years of Art (2024), The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art’s 10th Anniversary exhibition (2024), PUSH: J. Grant Brittain 80s Skateboarding Photography (2024), A Mother, Possibly (2023), Visual Conversations (2023), Bill Viola: Moving Stillness (2023), Twentysomethings: Works and NFTs from the Fabio Sandoval Collection (2023), Voices & Conversations: Expressions of Individuality and Community (2020), and The Figurative Continuum (2019); and co-curated five iterations of the annual Florida Prize in Contemporary Art (2018, 2019, 2020/21, 2022 and 2023), A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean: Contemporary Art from the Middle Eastern Diaspora (2021), and Edward Steichen: In Exaltation of Flowers (2019), among many other exhibitions.
She has been an active member of the Orange County Public Arts Review Board since September 2015, helping to develop public art commissions in and around Orlando, and is the current Chair of the Sub-Committee on the expansion of the Orange County Sculptures on the Lawn project, as well as the pro bono curator of the Sub-Committee for the Orange County Convention Center Art Collection.
In 2024, she was named one of the region’s Most Influential People by Winter Park Magazine. Coralie is passionate about contemporary art that focuses on socially-engaged practices, interdisciplinarity, transnationality, mobility and the shifting of borders –perceived or real—through the presentation of compelling exhibitions, site-specific installations, and creative activations that enable museums to stay relevant in the 21st century and act as agents for social change.
