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ABOUT US
Creating Futures That Work is the world's leading provider of experiential learning that uses the arts to help organizations and their leaders develop the skills and mindsets they need to flourish in an increasingly complex, demanding and rapidly changing world.
Our training improves business performance by preparing leaders and their teams to thrive in the Age of AI.
Our Art of Future Ready Leadership and Voyage of Discovery programs help leaders and coaches heighten their impact by seeing what others miss and connecting in ways others don't.
Our unique ABEL (Arts-Based Experiential Learning) System grew out of a 10-year National Science Foundation-funded research project. Its impact has been validated by successful use with clients all over the world, ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and non-profits to the Fortune 100.
We are passionate about driving client outcomes through cutting edge experiential learning that transforms organizations, leaders and teams.
WHAT WE DO
DEVELOP FUTURE READY LEADERS
DEVELOP FUTURE READY LEADERS
DEVELOP FUTURE READY LEADERS
At Creating Futures that Work, we prepare leaders to spark innovation, overcome disengagement, foster collaboration and inspire transformational business outcomes. Learn more.
STRENGTHEN ORGANIZATIONS
DEVELOP FUTURE READY LEADERS
DEVELOP FUTURE READY LEADERS
Our training delivers powerful and measurable business results. We use techniques from a decade of NSF-funded research to solve difficult problems and strengthen team engagement. Learn more.
BRING INNOVATIONS TO MARKET
BRING INNOVATIONS TO MARKET
BRING INNOVATIONS TO MARKET
From ideas to impact, Creating Futures that Work training improves the go to market rate of innovation teams by up to 60%. Learn more.
BUILD HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS
BRING INNOVATIONS TO MARKET
BRING INNOVATIONS TO MARKET
We help teams achieve game-changing outcomes through ensemble collaboration grounded in trust, mutual respect, empathy and resilience. Learn more.
ABOUT HARVEY AND FRED
Harvey Seifter, Founder and Director
Harvey Seifter, Founder and Director
Harvey Seifter, Founder and Director
Harvey Seifter has helped develop the leadership mindsets and innovation skills of more than 25,000 leaders at GE’s Corotonville Global Leadership Development Center. A classically trained musician, he’s also led arts organizations that garnered 5 Grammys and the Kennedy Center Award. In 2008, Harvey founded the Art of Science Learning, a
Harvey Seifter has helped develop the leadership mindsets and innovation skills of more than 25,000 leaders at GE’s Corotonville Global Leadership Development Center. A classically trained musician, he’s also led arts organizations that garnered 5 Grammys and the Kennedy Center Award. In 2008, Harvey founded the Art of Science Learning, a National Science Foundation-funded research center that uses the arts to spark innovation in science, technology and education.
Fred Mandell, Founder
Harvey Seifter, Founder and Director
Harvey Seifter, Founder and Director
Fred Mandell PhD is a former award-winning senior executive and business model innovator, visual artist, writer, teacher, social entrepreneur and transformation provocateur. He has developed emotionally resonant ways to teach individual and team skills, techniques and processes which accelerate innovative outcomes through arts-based learn
Fred Mandell PhD is a former award-winning senior executive and business model innovator, visual artist, writer, teacher, social entrepreneur and transformation provocateur. He has developed emotionally resonant ways to teach individual and team skills, techniques and processes which accelerate innovative outcomes through arts-based learning. His series The Leader as Artist has earned the number one rated course at MIT’s Sloan Innovation Period program.
NEWS
Creating Futures that Work at ICF Converge 2025 in San Diego
Creating Futures that Work at ICF Converge 2025 in San Diego
Creating Futures that Work at ICF Converge 2025 in San Diego
On October 23rd,
Incubator for Healthcare Innovation in Brazil
Creating Futures that Work at ICF Converge 2025 in San Diego
Creating Futures that Work at ICF Converge 2025 in San Diego
This is the third year of Art of Science Learning's international collaboration with Instituto Oswaldo Cruz of the Brazilian National Health Authority. In 2023, Harvey Seifter and his colleague Todd Siler traveled to Rio de Janeiro to launch an AOSL Incubator for Healthcare Innovation, which used arts-based experiential learning to help advance vital new innovations in public health and to strengthen the innovative skills of its cross disciplinary innovation teams. Several innovations growing out of the incubator have now gone successfully to market, and the project won Brazil's prestigious 2024 Convergence Award for Innovation Learning. Next year, the Incubator will be featured in Eric McNulty's upcoming book "Communities of Leading: Building the World we Need and Deserve" published my MIT Press
"Advancing in Innovation" at the University of Texas
Creating Futures that Work at ICF Converge 2025 in San Diego
"Advancing in Innovation" at the University of Texas
Harvey Seifter and a small group of teaching artists brought a two-day Art of Science Learning "Advancing Innovation" Program to 80 faculty members at the School of Nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch campus in Galveston. Participants told us that the workshops provided them with "tools for developing and refining ideas", helped them "enhance student learning through different approaches to teaching" and "created opportunities to engage and connect with colleagues in a more meaningful way."
Leadership Development for Frontline Caregivers
Leadership Development for Frontline Caregivers
"Advancing in Innovation" at the University of Texas
The Art of High Performance Caregiving is a groundbreaking new leadership development program for frontline caregivers we developed in partnership with Esteam Health.
Pre-post data from pilots shows striking correlations between participation in the program and increased:
Openness to New Information and Diverse Perspectives, Curiosity and Inquiry, Tolerance for Uncertainty, Cognitive Agility, Idea Range, Behavioral Flexibility, Resilience, Collaboration, Behavioral Empathy, Team Leadership, Innovation, Problem Solving and Decision Making.
In December 2024, we completed our final round of pilots at Retreat Healthcare in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Esteam will bring the program to market in January 2026.
Creating Futures that Work at FSU
Leadership Development for Frontline Caregivers
Creating Futures that Work at FSU
Harvey spent a week in residency at Florida State University, hosted by the FSU College of Business and its Center for Human Resource Management. While there, he led a half-day workshop for local entrepreneurs, innovators and community leaders at the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship; a roundtable discussion at the FSU Innovation Hub; and spent a day at the National High Magnetic Lab. He also gave an interactive guest lecture about social innovation to MBA students titled "Thinking with Hands" (see above).