A few months ago, Rebekah “Becky” Beaulieu never dreamed that she would become the president and CEO of the Taft Museum of Art. She was happily working as the director of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Conn., which, like the Taft Museum, is a house museum and a National Historic Landmark.
A recruiter approached Beaulieu during a nationwide search for a successor to Deborah Emont Scott, who announced she would retire in summer 2022 as president and CEO. Initially skeptical, Beaulieu…
