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Harvey Seifter, founder and director of Art of Science Learning (www.artofsciencelearning) and Principal Investigator of its two National Science Foundation grants, is one of the world's leading authorities on organizational creativity and arts‐based learning. Through Seifter Associates (www.seifterassociates.com), the consulting firm he founded in

This episode is about art, innovation and leadership.  What is the relationship between art-based learning, innovation and co-creation? How do you lead an ensemble of leaders? And why do people often use the metaphor of a conductor when discussing leadership? Or, is a conductor actually just a middle manager? So, today we are in New York and talking with Harvey Seifter. Harvey is the founder of The Art of Science Learning, a US National Science Foundation-funded initiative that uses the arts to spark innovation in science, technology, engineering and education. And Harvey is also a classically trained musician and formerly served as Executive Director of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The only orchestra in the world that rehearses and performs without a conductor.  Harvey shares with us insights on giving directions as a ‘decision maker of last resort' - as he calls it -   stimulating co-creation and what this means for the innovative power of the organisation.  Well, you can say we have learnings here for any organisation. By the way: we recorded this episode via Zoom when Harvey returned just a few days from his Ted talk in Madrid; before the talk, he lost his voice and finally did the TED talk without repetition.  To spare his voice and energy, we stopped the recording at a certain point and agreed to have a second conversation in the very near future. So listen to Part One with Harvey Seifter and how you lead an orchestra of leaders. Show Notes Connect with Harvey via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hseifter/  Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: https://open.spotify.com/artist/35pZsti1RSA5Zv98jAm8kX?si=FIjGn4yeTPKzZvD46PTdVA Art of Science Learning: https://www.artofsciencelearning.org/ Like this show? Subscribe to the podcast. Leave us a review — even one sentence helps! I appreciate your support; it helps the show! There is more about Music Thinking: a book, a blog and many more podcast episodes. The Power of Music Thinking is brought to you by CREATIVE COMPANION specialised in facilitating leaders, teams and organisations in customer experience, change and innovation. Support us Tell your friends about musicthinking.com and consider buying the book and/or the Jam Cards.  

Roads Taken is less a map than a meandering, less a history than a reflection, less a presentation than a prism, less a how-to guide than a journey.Fred Mandell will review his work journey as an outgrowth of a series of animating questions. He will share what motivated him to launch The Global Institute for the Arts and Leadership as a response to the world in which we live. He will reflect on his current arts-based leadership consulting to enliven organizational culture and unlock innovation. Through these reflections, he will provide the opportunity to hold up a mirror to each of our own personal journeys.   Fred will share his mistakes, vulnerabilities, insights, and surprises in a search for wholeness.  In the spirit of Max Beckmann, the great 20th-century German artist, Fred sees art as a paradigm through which we pursue "the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make." In this episode, participants will understand and appreciate:The connection between work/life choices and what matters in our lives and those of our clientsWork in the second half as a Creative ChoiceThe role of animating questions in making work/life decisionsThe creative power of choiceAbout Fred Mandell:Fred Mandell is a founder and principal with Creating Futures That Work, a consultancy that draws on the precision and focus of science and the insights and skills of the arts to elevate leader effectiveness in the areas of collaboration, innovation, organizational culture, and professional development.Before establishing CFTW with Harvey Seifter, Fred served as a senior executive with American Express, building leading marketing and sales businesses and running a multi-billion-dollar investment company. During his tenure, he introduced new business models for fee-based financial planning in a large financial services institution.In 2014 Fred launched The Global Institute for the Arts and Leadership, a not-for-profit entity whose mission is to build a more peaceful, sustainable, and beautiful world by using the arts to catalyze social change. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board.What to do next: Click to grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition Please leave a review at Apple Podcasts. Join our Revolutionize Your Retirement group on Facebook.

The world has changed dramatically over the past year and a half.  For Fred Mandell, this is only the beginning of constant, dramatic, and unpredictable changes.   Fred will share his journey from using the creative process of the arts as a model for navigating life transitions (Becoming a Life Change Artist) to his deep exploration of how the arts can prepare us to thrive in our new, rapidly changing world.In this episode you'll discover:The implications of living in a constant state of changeHow the arts can serve as a deep and practical learning process The theory and science behind arts-based experiential learningHow Creating Futures That Work is pioneering arts-based experiential learning to help individuals, leaders, and teams navigate the new state of unending changeYou will walk away with an understanding of how integrating the arts into leadership development, innovative thinking, and collaborative team dynamics can change both you and the world.About Fred Mandell:Fred Mandell is a founder and principal with Creating Futures That Work, a consultancy that draws on the precision and focus of science and the insights and skills of the arts to elevate leader effectiveness in the areas of collaboration, innovation, organizational culture, and professional development.Prior to establishing CFTW with Harvey Seifter, Fred served as a senior executive with American Express where he built leading marketing and sales businesses and ran a multi-billion-dollar investment company. During his tenure, he introduced new business models for the practice of fee-based financial planning in a large financial services institution.In 2014 Fred launched The Global Institute for the Arts and Leadership, a not-for-profit entity, whose mission is to build a more peaceful, sustainable, and beautiful world by using the arts to catalyze social change. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board.Fred is the author of Can Art Save Us? and the co-author with Kathleen Jordan of Becoming a Life Change Artist; 7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Your Life at Any Stage.  He has been teaching the number one rated leadership series at MIT Sloan School of Management called The Leader as Artist since 2013. The Leader as Artist series is unique in the way it demonstrates the application of the art-making process to innovative leadership and organizational vitality. As an artist, Fred has been featured in the national publication Gallery Guide. Most recently his bronze self-portrait has been commissioned for the international conference on "The Self/Le Soi" co-sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne.Fred holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and an Ed.M. in psychology from Boston University. He has three grown children, and six grandchildren, and lives in Lynnfield, Massachusetts with his wife Karen, a writer and teacher. Get in touch with Fred Mandell:Fred's artist website: https://www.fredmandell.com/ Fred's corporate website: https://futuresthatwork.com/ Buy Fred's book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/lifechangeartist Download Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/mandellslides Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/ 

Harvey Seifter & Fred Mandell are the founders of Creating Futures That Work, a company that uses teaching creative arts to people as a way to foster and develop the ability to innovate and collaborate with others. Harvey and Fred share each of their unique leadership journeys and lessons and insights they gleaned along the way. Harvey speaks to his experience working with Orpheus, an orchestra made famous because it's a conductor-less orchestra. Fred shares his experience working in the Financial Services industry and how it has shifted to focus more on the consumer. They both discuss the parallels they observed between the creative process and how it impacts organizations and organizational decisions. Finally, they provide advice to executives on how to implement successful conflict resolution strategies across their organizations.  Key Takeaways: 01:38 – Today, we have a two-part episode where I'm speaking with Harvey Seifter & Fred Mandell, founders of Creating Futures That Work  08:45 – Seminal moments from Harvey and Fred's leadership journey  12:07 – Ensuring missions and shared visions get communicated to the team  16:53 – Insights gleaned from working in the conductor-less orchestra, Orpheus  24:03 – Fred speaks to how the Financial Services industry has evolved throughout the years  28:36 – Advice Harvey and Fred would give to executives on implementing conflict resolution strategies   Tweetable Quotes: “For me, theatre was an incredible laboratory into all kinds of things, but especially into leadership. The whole process of bringing a bunch of people together and taking a script and exploring it and understanding the motivations of different characters, that was a constant set of opportunities and challenges and learning experiences.” (09:03) (Harvey) “What I tried to do at the beginning of my relationship with the team, whether it was a newly formed team or an intact existing team, was share with them my aspiration that the work that we do together as a team would be the very best work experience they'd ever had.” (10:44) (Fred) “One of the hardest things is overcoming something that we've tended to culturally learn as a business society. And that is that you actually are helping people when you give them clear and direct feedback. And the best way to give feedback is to answer questions honestly, sincerely, directly and as helpfully as you can.” (20:03) (Harvey) “There has been, I believe, a positive shift in the relationship between the Financial Services providers and the consumer. The consumer today is much more empowered.” (25:25) (Fred) “Every time that you present an idea, you have tremendous opportunities to learn more and ultimately to make it better. And that's where feedback comes in.” (30:51) (Harvey) “It is harder to be a leader today than at any other time that I've been around. And that's because the general context within which leaders operate has become so disruptive, uncertain and complex. And the impulse in that environment too often, that I've been able to observe, is that leaders take the ‘ready, fire, aim' approach. In other words they jump to action. One of the things I would encourage would be not to act right away but to reflect.” (31:44) (Fred)  Links Mentioned:  Dino's Email – dino@al4ep.com  Dino's Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/al4edp/ (https://www.instagram.com/al4edp/)  Dino's Twitter – https://twitter.com/al4edp (https://twitter.com/al4edp)  Authentic Leadership for Everyday People Website – https://authenticleadershipforeverydaypeople.com/ (https://authenticleadershipforeverydaypeople.com/)  Authentic Leadership for Everyday People Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/al4ep/?ref=page_internal (https://www.facebook.com/al4ep/?ref=page_internal)  Creating Futures That Work Website –...

We continue the discussion with Harvey Seifter & Fred Mandell. Harvey & Fred are the founders of Creating Futures That Work, a company that uses creative arts and teaching specifically creative arts to people as a way to foster and develop innovation and the ability to work with others.  In this Part 2, Harvey and Fred share the story of how they met and what inspired them to launch Creating Futures That Work. They talk about creating an arts-based learning program and the lessons and insights they learned through the process. Harvey and Fred highlights each other's strengths and why they were integral in starting their company. Finally, Harvey and Fred speak to the importance of reflection and provide some food for your body and soul.  Key Takeaways: 03:19 – Harvey Seifter & Fred Mandell speak to the journey that led them both to launch Creating Futures That Work 07:39 – Fred's initial interest in the Arts and the moment he realized he wanted to experiment with bringing the Arts into leadership  13:53 – Trial and error in Arts-based learning and lessons learned through the process  18:09 – Bringing their unique strengths to achieve a common goal  20:06 – The power of reflection  23:11 – Harvey and Fred share some food for your body and food for your soul  31:06 – And now here's ‘Love Alone,' a song written and performed by Honest Mechanik  Tweetable Quotes: “The Arts can be powerful, resonant, immersive learning experiences that are fully transferable into the secular role of leadership in organizations.” (09:37) (Fred)  “It's a very deep, powerful kind of learning that people go through when they work with the arts. And one of the reasons is because it's kind of a universal alphabet of creative expression. We all know how to speak this language. We all belong in this. Once we bring ourselves to it, it changes us.” (12:32) (Harvey) “Fred has always had a really powerful and wonderful focus on the power of reflection.” (20:06) (Harvey) “For my whole life the most powerful artistic food for my soul has been Mozart. And it has been throughout this time and I'm sure will be tomorrow as well.” (25:49) (Harvey)  Links Mentioned:  Dino's Email – dino@al4ep.com  Dino's Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/al4edp/ (https://www.instagram.com/al4edp/)  Dino's Twitter – https://twitter.com/al4edp (https://twitter.com/al4edp)  Authentic Leadership for Everyday People Website – https://authenticleadershipforeverydaypeople.com/ (https://authenticleadershipforeverydaypeople.com/)  Authentic Leadership for Everyday People Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/al4ep/?ref=page_internal (https://www.facebook.com/al4ep/?ref=page_internal)  Creating Futures That Work Website – https://futuresthatwork.com/ (https://futuresthatwork.com/)  Harvey's LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/hseifter/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hseifter/)  Fred's LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredmandell/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredmandell/)  Harvey's Email – hseifter@futuresthatwork.com  Fred's Email – fred.mandell@futuresthatwork.com  Link to ‘Love Alone' by Honest Mechanik – https://honestmechanik.bandcamp.com/track/love-alone (https://honestmechanik.bandcamp.com/track/love-alone)   This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Can you teach collaboration, empathy, creativity and transparency in the virtual world? Sure, you can teach it but it won't change behavior. To change your behavior you and your team must immerse yourselves in creative experiences. On today's podcast, Dr. Fred Mandell and Harvey Seifter, founders of Futures that Work, demonstrate how to build the competencies required to succeed in the two dimensional zoom world by engaging our team in the three dimensional worlds of art and science.Many people were waiting to get to the other side of this pandemic, hoping the virtual world would become less relevant and that we would get back to “normal.” But the reality is, we're not going to get back to that ever again. Because of that, there is a premium in developing the kinds of skills and communication to be effective in a virtual world. Because we're moving toward a hybrid world, we don't exactly know what the balance is going to be. And we have found that the arts continue to be a incredibly engaging, three dimensional experience in a two dimensional medium,One downside to the virtual world is that it is 2-dimensional. The 3-dimensional world is where the art experience thrives. But is it possible to bring the richness of the 3D of the arts into virtual team building? Bringing the arts into virtual team building is very powerful, because it begins to help people appreciate that the world that we're entering into, is going to be an interplay between three dimensions in two dimensions.What is Art-Based Learning?When teams engage in arts-based learning they begin to change the way they collaborate. The teams that spent a few hours of arts based learning exhibited dramatically more emotionally intelligent behaviors like try mutual respect, transparency, openness to new ideas, all of these kind of key elements for collaboration. Results in innovationBenefits of Arts-Based Learning Through experimental research, Fredd & Harvey discovered that the Arts have a very powerful and unique impact on creativity, collaboration, emotionally intelligent behavior, innovation and resilience. Arts based learning taps into the creative expression and potential that every human has. When people experience art, it triggers the same neural circuitry that triggers empathy. Additionally, Arts based learning can change a culture, organization and language. 6 Arts-Based Virtual Team Building ActivitiesSuminagashi - The Japanese term refers to “floating ink.” Suminagashi is the process of marbling plain paper with water and ink to transform it into something vibrant and colorful.A Music Experience- Put your team inside the music, teach them to perform and have them perform a musical experience. Learn the connection between music performance and collaboration.Poetry - Have your team work together to write poems. Tap into their creative writing skills. Drawing - Have your team members draw a picture together.Theatre - Have your team act out a scene in a play or perform improv. Dance/ Movement - Have your team participate in a dance or other movement such as a Yoga or Tai Chi class. Tips for Leaders for 2021Visit a museumCompose a poemDraw a self-portrait Walk in the woods without your cell phone and breathe deeply. Ask yourself, What is different about today? And why does that matter? Every morning ask yourself, What am I grateful for today?In the evening before going to bed, repeat and reflect. Listen to a different kind of music. Observe a child 18 months or younger playing Eat a slice of pizza beginning with the crust and working toward the tip.  

Harvey Seifter is Director and Principal Investigator at Art of Science Learning and the Founder and Managing Director at Creating Futures That Work. In this week's episode, Mark and Harvey discuss a range of topics related to how the arts can spark creativity in science education and the development of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce, including: The investigative nature of science and the arts and the potential of ABL to foster passion for exploration and discovery in young learners. What first led Harvey to the hypothesis that incorporating arts-based learning could spark interest in science, spur innovation, and encourage collaboration in adults What Harvey's work found in terms of how the integration of ABL into science education can spur greater interest in the study of science and inspire students to want to learn more about, and potential pursue, careers in STEM fields Whether his work includes in its scope what may be happening neurologically to trigger this behavior, and if he has any theories at this point Details about the symposia and roundtables he's held at places like the Smithsonian, Illinois Institute of Technology, and California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology What fascinates him about his work What are the implications, in his view, of the connection between ABL and innovation Is art - which appeals to perhaps a different dimension than fact - an example of connection with students through emotion Resources mentioned in the episode artofsciencelearning.org

Harvey Seifter, founder of Art of Science Learning, joins Dr. Kathryn Evans to discuss an experimental section of ARTS 1301 that will incorporate findings and practices from his organization, Art of Science Learning. 

Join Roger Malina for a conversation with AoSL founder Harvey Seifter as the two discuss the impact of artistic skills and experiences on the processes of learning and innovation. 

How does arts-based learning rapidly transform culture and performance in teams and organizations? What is the relationship between creative thinking, collaboration and innovation? What research evidence exists to support incorporating arts-based learning in teams? How can these processes be scaled up in organizations? Tune in to this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews special guest Harvey Seifter to explore these and other compelling topics.  Harvey Seifter is Founder and Director of Art of Science Learning (www.artofsciencelearning.org) and Principal Investigator of its two National Science Foundation grants and is one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity and arts‐based learning. Themes explored in the podcast include: Harvey’s journey from classically trained musician to author to Founder of the Art of Science Learning Harvey’s experience at the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and his 2001 book Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World’s Only Conductorless Orchestra Convening the field of arts-based learning in business Metaforming (symbolic modelling) 2012 $2.8 million grant from National Science Foundation exploring arts-based learning, innovation and business -The development of an arts-based innovation process and curriculum The creation of 3 innovation incubators: San Diego, Chicago, Worcester Teaching innovation through doing it: research on 29 cross-disciplinary teams; 22 teams after 1 year went to market (products, processes, services) The core skills of innovation as well as phases Approaches to infusing arts-based approaches: music, improv, movement, conducting, drawing, sketching Wicked problems as failures of imagination Experimental research: randomized and controlled study of arts-based learning and innovation in teams: 2 phases of innovation: 1) what is the problem and 2) how do we solve it: each with a converge and diverge component The linkage between divergent thinking, convergent thinking, business results and culture change Using research and data to bring arts from the fringes into the center of business processes A story of applying arts-based learning to foster creativity with 22 startups within a Fortune 500 organization The future of innovation, arts-based learning and wicked problems This is an episode that truly all teams, team leaders, and team coaches cannot afford to miss!  For show notes and more great information and resources on team coaching go to: http://www.teamcoachingzone.com/

The Art of Science Learning (AoSL) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that explores innovation at the intersection of art, science and learning, using the arts to spark creativity in science education and foster the development of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce. AoSL’s current project, “Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation”, has developed a new curriculum for adolescent and adult STEM learners that uses the arts to teach the innovation process, and has launched three year-long arts-based incubators for innovations in STEM products, processes or services, as well as in learning programs and initiatives, to test the new methodologies and approaches embodied in the curriculum. Series: "STEAM Channel" [Humanities] [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 30491]

The Art of Science Learning (AoSL) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that explores innovation at the intersection of art, science and learning, using the arts to spark creativity in science education and foster the development of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce. AoSL’s current project, “Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation”, has developed a new curriculum for adolescent and adult STEM learners that uses the arts to teach the innovation process, and has launched three year-long arts-based incubators for innovations in STEM products, processes or services, as well as in learning programs and initiatives, to test the new methodologies and approaches embodied in the curriculum. Series: "STEAM: Adding Arts to STEM Education" [Humanities] [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 30491]

The Art of Science Learning (AoSL) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that explores innovation at the intersection of art, science and learning, using the arts to spark creativity in science education and foster the development of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce. AoSL’s current project, “Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation”, has developed a new curriculum for adolescent and adult STEM learners that uses the arts to teach the innovation process, and has launched three year-long arts-based incubators for innovations in STEM products, processes or services, as well as in learning programs and initiatives, to test the new methodologies and approaches embodied in the curriculum. Series: "STEAM: Adding Arts to STEM Education" [Humanities] [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 30491]

The Art of Science Learning (AoSL) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that explores innovation at the intersection of art, science and learning, using the arts to spark creativity in science education and foster the development of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce. AoSL’s current project, “Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation”, has developed a new curriculum for adolescent and adult STEM learners that uses the arts to teach the innovation process, and has launched three year-long arts-based incubators for innovations in STEM products, processes or services, as well as in learning programs and initiatives, to test the new methodologies and approaches embodied in the curriculum. Series: "STEAM Channel" [Humanities] [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 30491]

The Art of Science Learning (AoSL) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that explores innovation at the intersection of art, science and learning, using the arts to spark creativity in science education and foster the development of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce. AoSL's current project, “Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation”, has developed a new curriculum for adolescent and adult STEM learners that uses the arts to teach the innovation process, and has launched three year-long arts-based incubators for innovations in STEM products, processes or services, as well as in learning programs and initiatives, to test the new methodologies and approaches embodied in the curriculum. Series: "STEAM: Adding Arts to STEM Education" [Humanities] [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 30491]

There's more to creativity than problem solving, says Harvey Seifter, director of the Art of Science Learning Project, a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that uses the arts to spark creativity in science education and the development of an innovative 21st century STEM workforce. So what does this have to do with museums? This initiative highlights the importance of creativity, collaboration and communication—subjects that are at the heart of best museum practice—and provides a new way of describing the essential role that museums play in society. Listen this week as Harvey Seifter describes this project as well as his innovative arts-based approach to innovation and leadership that has many applications to the museum world.