Arts-based learning and development for leaders, managers, and teams
How to Make Your Life and Work a Work of Art
What would your life and work look like, be like, feel like, if it were a work of art? How we choose what we [...]
How budget cuts could kick-start creativity in the public sector
From the The Creativity Gap Series in the Globe and Mail BY ERIN MILLAR PUBLISHED MAY 16, 2012 The signs were clear. A staggering [...]
Reflections on Working with Centres of Excellence
A Visual Dialogue created by workshop participants Over the past couple of years, I have been invited by some of the most successful companies [...]
Improvisation May Be the Key to Successfully Managing Change, Says MIT
Jazz-inspired Improvisation It's great to see organizations taking arts-based learning seriously. In the case of MIT, the Leadership Center has published an article [...]
Adventures in Learning Through Art and Creativity
I have three stories about adventures in learning about creativity through direct experience. Embodied learning is experience-based learning that occurs by interacting with [...]
4 ways studying the arts will develop your business skills
"Business has much to learn from the arts." — From the Schumpeter Blog As a pioneer in arts-based learning I'm happy to see this [...]
Brain Jazz: A new view of the brain’s inner workings
From the Salk Institute for Biological Studies Jan. 2002 According to accepted dogma, the brain responds to sensory experiences somewhat like an electronic bucket [...]
An interview with John Seely Brown about Xerox PARC’s Artist in Residence Program
One of the most enjoyable aspects of co-authoring of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, was interviewing some of the leading researchers and pioneers in [...]
Arts-based Learning for Business
Arts-based learning for business: Creatively Intelligent companies The growing use of arts-based learning reflects a dramatic shift in the boundaries that previously defined the [...]
Jorge Luis Borges: What is the task of Art?
This excerpt is from the autobiographical documentary Buenos Aires, meine Geschichte (1998) by German Kral, an Argentinian filmmaker. As he neared the end of [...]
Corporate Alchemy: Arts-based learning as a catalyst for transformation
Corporate arts-based learning as a catalyst for Creativity, Collaboration, and Transformational Leadership in Organizations Watch excerpts from a webinar I first presented to organizational development professionals [...]
Ten Things You Can Do to Support Local Art & Culture
Art and Culture contribute to building lively cities and communities—creating a sense of belonging, where people want to live, work, and visit. It plays [...]
The Dance of Leadership: The Art of Leading in Business, Government, And Society
The theme for the this month is arts-based learning and development
What is the connection between leaders and artists? Take the quiz
Arts-based dialogue Quiz yourself on the connection between leaders and artists How many, if any, from each list are a mirror image [...]
Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater By Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin A stage production and the development of your next product have [...]
Painting Music Live at a Symphonic Performance in Slovenia
This summer I lived a dream that wasn't even my own dream; it was better than anything I could have imagined. I was invited by [...]