Last week, I attended Setting The Tempo, a fabulous event at the Yale School of Music in partnership with Yale’s Cultural Innovation Lab. The event highlighted performances and projects that capture the spirit of experimentation and collaboration, which define the interconnected nature of innovation in the Arts and Humanities at Yale. The evening presented a workshop version of Red Helicopter: …
21st Century Arts Leadership: Vision to Purpose To Mission
My class at the Yale School of Music focuses on how today’s musicians can step into leadership and design ways to make classical music a vital part of our culture. Their learning vehicle is a semester-long collaborative project where like-minded peers explore, design, and test out innovative and creative solutions to this problem. Leadership Models The hands-on experience of creating …
21st Century Arts Leadership: Action Steps to Positive Leadership
In my last blog post, we saw how the students in my class at the Yale School of Music, 21st Century Arts Leadership: Inspiration, Innovation, Collaboration, are learning how to cultivate a positive mindset through three research-based interventions: flow, the growth mindset, and SPIRE. In order to adopt new ways of thinking, it is not enough to know the theories. …
21st Century Arts Leadership: 3 Ways to Cultivate a Positive Mindset
How do today’s arts leaders cultivate the positive mindset in order to lead through challenging times? That’s the question that we are now exploring in my 21st Century Arts Leadership class at the Yale School of Music. In my last post, I shared my model for what today’s arts leaders need for personal leadership-the ability to lead yourself before you …
21st Century Arts Leadership: Embracing Classical Music Today
My class at the Yale School of Music is off to a great start! Entitled, 21st Century Arts Leadership: Inspiration, Innovation, Collaboration, the class explores how today’s artists can take charge to effect change and make classical music a vital part of our culture. Through innovative collaborative projects, students will explore how to lead change in the arts landscape. So …
Entrepreneurial Projects at the Yale School of Music: Why Classical Music Needs Audience Interviews
In our last post, we explored how the students in my collaborative project class at the Yale School of Music (“YSM”) identified their audiences and designed projects to meet the needs of their audience members. The next step was to test out and share prototypes of their projects with the intended audience members to see how well their projects met …
Entrepreneurial Projects at the Yale School of Music: What Today’s Audiences Need from Classical Music:
Each fall, I teach a wonderful class at the Yale School of Music (“YSM”) entitled, Collaborative Leadership To Advance Creativity, Innovation and New Opportunities in the Arts. My class uses the experiential semester-long collaborative project to teach graduate music students how to create innovative solutions to problems in the classical music field. Our focus is on meeting the needs of …
Entrepreneurial Projects at the Yale School of Music: Exploring Through the Lens of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
My project-based class at the Yale School of Music explores how to generate innovative solutions to the problems facing classical music today. This year, our projects focused on how to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classical music field. In my first post on this class, I introduced the wonderful mix of students in my class who were eager …
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Advancing Classical Music Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: My Class at the Yale School of Music
Since 2015, I have been teaching a class on Creativity, Collaboration and Innovation at the Yale School of Music. The focus of my class is how to generate innovative solutions to the problems facing classical music today. The learning vehicle is the semester-long collaborative project. In the past, the projects focused on how to attract younger audiences to classical music, …
What Kind of Creative Thinker Are You?
What kind of creative thinker are you? If that strikes you as an odd question, it stems from my belief that we all have the capacity to creative! In fact, “creativity for all” is the underlying the message of my TEDx talk, Cracking the Code on Creativity: The Secret to Full-Blast Living. Moreover, there are many different ways to be a …