Welcome to Wellness for Leaders!

Each week, I post a video highlighting research-based wellness practices that can enhance your leadership abilities. My first video is about Flow. Flow comes from the research of the late psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi as described his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Csikszentmihalyi researched the conditions under which people experienced Flow and defined it as doing something that: you …

SPIRE for Leaders: Implementing SPIRE into your Life and Leadership

In our last post, we shared how leaders from OPERA America’s Leadership Intensive Class of 2023 are applying the science-based SPIRE wellness framework.  These leaders have learned the value of promoting wellness at work both for themselves and for the staff members. They are also implementing SPIRE into their lives and enhancing the wellness of their staff members and their …

SPIRE For Leaders: One Year Later

Since 2013, I have had the privilege of teaching at OPERA America’s Leadership Intensive Program. This initiative trains mid-career opera executives to take on senior leadership positions at major opera companies. We meet for a week in New York and then I have a series of coaching calls with the leaders throughout the year. For our most recent cohort in …

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 …

Shoutout LA: Meet Astrid Baumgardner

“I feel a renewed sense of excitement as I share the science of happiness with my students and clients.” Shoutout LA published an entire feature on Astrid and her work. Check it out! Meet Astrid Baumgardner | Executive and Career Coach and Teacher to Arts Leaders, Professional Musicians and Creative Entrepreneurs

The Culture File Debate: Missing Audiences

Luke Clancy’s excursion into art, design, music, performance, media, technology and a world of intriguing possibilities. Broadcast weekdays on Lorcan Murray’s Classic Drive on RTÉ Lyric FM. NCH’s Robert Read, audience data specialist, Katy Raines, conductor Mark Wigglesworth and Yale School of Music’s Astrid Baumgardner on what’s happening to audiences in the “post” COVID world.