Harvey Seifter

Harvey Seifter, one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity, is founder and director of The Art of Science Learning (AOSL), a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that uses the arts to spark creativity and innovation in science, technology, engineering and education. As Principal Investigator of AOSL’s two NSF grants, Harvey developed world’s first arts-based STEM innovation curriculum; created incubators for innovation across the country; and spearheaded groundbreaking experimental research that found evidence of a causal relationship between arts-based learning and improved creativity skills, collaborative behaviors and innovation outcomes. At GE’s Crotonville Global Leadership Development Center, Harvey teaches innovation and helps senior leaders collaborate more effectively, adapt to complex environments and accelerate change. Harvey is also a classically trained musician with a 20-year career at the helm of distinguished arts organizations including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and New York’s Circle in the Square Theater on Broadway; during his tenure, these organizations garnered 5 Grammy Awards, 24 Obie and Critics Circle Awards and the Kennedy Center Award while bringing innovative programming to millions of viewers and listeners worldwide. Author of Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World’s Only Conductorless Orchestra (Holt/Times Books), and editor of Arts Based Learning for Business and Creatively Intelligent Companies and Leaders (both special issues of the Journal of Business Strategy), Harvey participated in the White House Global Cultural Initiative and has served as a panelist for both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts