Professor Towner brings more than four decades of senior-level leadership across higher education, museums, conservation organizations, and healthcare-based arts programs; making him exceptionally well suited to advise institutions navigating complexity and change. His career includes long-term service as Dean and Professor at Endicott College, where he oversaw multi-program academic units, managed faculty and staff, chaired core curriculum initiatives, guided accreditation-related processes, and contributed to institutional planning and governance. Complementing this academic leadership, he has held executive roles in museum and nonprofit settings, including Acting Director and Assistant Director of an accredited art museum and Assistant Director of the Northeast Document Conservation Center, where he managed operations, budgets, audits, grants, facilities, contracts, and personnel across departments. Towner began his career in the Archives/Photography Studio at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

As an arts consultant, Towner offers rare breadth and deep knowledge of governance and board relations, financial oversight and grant administration, collection stewardship, exhibition and facilities management, and cross-sector collaboration. He has successfully worked with trustees, federal and private granting agencies, city officials, donors, healthcare administrators, faculty, and accrediting bodies. He consistently translated artistic missions into sustainable operational structures. Clients benefit from his ability to assess organizational needs holistically, align vision with policy and resources, and implement practical, mission-driven solutions grounded in decades of real-world leadership. His experience positions him not merely as an advisor, but as a trusted strategic partner capable of strengthening institutions at moments of transition, growth, or reinvention.