Last week, I was honored to lead a discussion with Yale University faculty on how to build an online classroom community. The discussion was sponsored by Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. The Center provides a host of resources to students and faculty. When Yale had to convert its classes to online learning last spring, the Center was instrumental …
Today’s Audience For Classical Music: How to Make Classical Music Relevant and Accessible
Every fall, I have the privilege of teaching a project-based seminar to a group of budding music entrepreneurs at the Yale School of Music. The class, Creating Value Through Innovative Collaborative Projects (Music 621a), addresses the problem of how to keep classical music alive and vital in our culture. My goal is to equip my students with leadership and innovation …
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Write Your Life Purpose Statement: Four Steps to Fulfillment and Direction in Your Life and Career
In our last blog post, we explored how students at Yale University tapped into their passion and purpose in order to ignite their search for a creative career. A great way to ignite that search is to write a Life Purpose Statement. The Importance of A Life Purpose Statement Purpose is key to creative success and fulfillment. Your purpose is …
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Tap into Passion and Purpose: How to Ignite Your Creative Career
This past week, I had the privilege of speaking on Creative Success Now: How to Ignite Your Passion and Purpose for Successful Creative Careers” to students at Yale University. My talk attracted a variety of students who were intrigued about creativity and turning their passion and purpose into a successful career. These included singers, composers, performers, an aspiring novelist, several …
Ideas into Action: How Music Entrepreneurs Create and Innovate
One of my favorite aspects of teaching my Innovation and Collaboration class at Yale is the project whereby the students take on a critical problem in the classical music field and work in collaborative groups to create and implement new solutions to these problems. It was fascinating to see how we were able to take the spark of an idea …
Flow Passion and Purpose: The Keys to Inspired Leadership
Last spring, I was honored to have been selected by the students of the Yale School of Music to speak at Inspiring Yale, a one-day campus-wide event showcasing the work of thought leaders from the 13 graduate and professional schools at Yale. While my work at Yale centers on launching the brilliant and talented musicians and arts leaders at the …