About Harvey Seifter
One of the world's leading authorities on organizational creativity, arts-based learning and creative ecosystems, Harvey Seifter is the President of Seifter Associates, a New York City-based consulting firm he founded in 1995.
Harvey is also a classically trained musician with a 25-year career at the helm of distinguished arts organizations including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Magic Theatre of San Francisco. During his tenure these organizations garnered 5 Grammy Awards and the Kennedy Center Award; brought live programming to millions on PBS, National Public Radio and the BBC; and developed new collaborations with Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution.
In 2003, Harvey founded Americans for the Arts' Creativity Connection program, helping corporations foster creative thinking and enhance organizational performance through arts-based learning. During the past decade, he has brought his arts-based approach to innovation and collaboration to General Electric, IBM, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, McGraw-Hill, Real Networks, GlaxoSmithKline, Siemens, Goldman Sachs, the Entrepreneurs Organization and Morgan Stanley.
Harvey is the author of Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World's Only Conductorless Orchestra (published by Holt/Times Books and translated into nine languages). He has guest edited two special issues of the Journal of Business Strategy: "Arts-Based Learning for Business” (2005) and "Creatively Intelligent Companies and Leaders" (2010).
A participant in the White House Global Cultural Initiative, Harvey has created interdisciplinary cultural exchange programs in Europe, Asia and North America. His recent keynotes include the Conference Board Growth and Innovation Conference, the China Innovation Conference, the Taipei International Arts Festival, the Dutch Performing Arts Congress, the Canadian National Management Conference, the Global Conference of the International Leadership Association, and the inauguration of the Baker Idea Institute.
Harvey has served on the Senior Executive Faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and guest lectured at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and the Conservatoire de Paris. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Art (UK), Senior Fellow at the Learning Worlds Institute (US), and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Banff Leadership Centre (Canada).
In 2010, Harvey was awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to demonstrate how arts- based learning can enhance the scientific literacy and innovative capacity of the 21st Century American workforce. In collaboration with the Smithsonian, Illinois Institute of Technology, CALIT2 and the Learning Worlds Institute, he convened a series of conferences on The Art of Science Learning in 2011.
Harvey is also a classically trained musician with a 25-year career at the helm of distinguished arts organizations including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Magic Theatre of San Francisco. During his tenure these organizations garnered 5 Grammy Awards and the Kennedy Center Award; brought live programming to millions on PBS, National Public Radio and the BBC; and developed new collaborations with Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution.
In 2003, Harvey founded Americans for the Arts' Creativity Connection program, helping corporations foster creative thinking and enhance organizational performance through arts-based learning. During the past decade, he has brought his arts-based approach to innovation and collaboration to General Electric, IBM, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, McGraw-Hill, Real Networks, GlaxoSmithKline, Siemens, Goldman Sachs, the Entrepreneurs Organization and Morgan Stanley.
Harvey is the author of Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World's Only Conductorless Orchestra (published by Holt/Times Books and translated into nine languages). He has guest edited two special issues of the Journal of Business Strategy: "Arts-Based Learning for Business” (2005) and "Creatively Intelligent Companies and Leaders" (2010).
A participant in the White House Global Cultural Initiative, Harvey has created interdisciplinary cultural exchange programs in Europe, Asia and North America. His recent keynotes include the Conference Board Growth and Innovation Conference, the China Innovation Conference, the Taipei International Arts Festival, the Dutch Performing Arts Congress, the Canadian National Management Conference, the Global Conference of the International Leadership Association, and the inauguration of the Baker Idea Institute.
Harvey has served on the Senior Executive Faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and guest lectured at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and the Conservatoire de Paris. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Art (UK), Senior Fellow at the Learning Worlds Institute (US), and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Banff Leadership Centre (Canada).
In 2010, Harvey was awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to demonstrate how arts- based learning can enhance the scientific literacy and innovative capacity of the 21st Century American workforce. In collaboration with the Smithsonian, Illinois Institute of Technology, CALIT2 and the Learning Worlds Institute, he convened a series of conferences on The Art of Science Learning in 2011.
