ABOUT OUR COMPANY
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 they need to succeed 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 Voyages of Discovery 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.
HOW WE HELP OUR CLIENTS
WE DEVELOP LEADERS
WE SPARK INNOVATION, AGILITY AND RESILIENCE
WE STRENGTHEN TEAMS
Clients have discovered that our proprietary ABEL System helps transform their leaders at all levels. Our powerful and emotionally connected learning strengthens innovation skills and cultivates future ready mindsets.
WE STRENGTHEN TEAMS
WE SPARK INNOVATION, AGILITY AND RESILIENCE
WE STRENGTHEN TEAMS
Drawing on decades of experience, we help teams achieve high-performance outcomes by building high performance cultures. Ensemble collaboration grounded in trust, mutual respect, empathy and resilience is the key.
WE SPARK INNOVATION, AGILITY AND RESILIENCE
WE SPARK INNOVATION, AGILITY AND RESILIENCE
WE SPARK INNOVATION, AGILITY AND RESILIENCE
Our game-changing short learning experiences are high impact - they spark creativity, innovation, collaboration, empathy and resilience in leaders and teams. We use techniques we pioneered in a decade of NSF-funded R&D to achieve powerful and measurable results.
ABOUT HARVEY AND FRED
Harvey Seifter, Founder and Managing Director
Harvey Seifter, Founder and Managing Director
Harvey Seifter, Founder and Managing 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 Managing Director
Harvey Seifter, Founder and Managing 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
Leadership Development for Frontline Caregivers
Incubator for Healthcare Innovation at Fiocruz in Rio
Incubator for Healthcare Innovation at Fiocruz in Rio
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 2025.
Incubator for Healthcare Innovation at Fiocruz in Rio
Incubator for Healthcare Innovation at Fiocruz in Rio
Incubator for Healthcare Innovation at Fiocruz in Rio
In a major new international collaboration between Art of Science Learning and Fiocruz (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz) Harvey Seifter and his colleague Todd Siler traveled to Rio de Janeiro to launch a new AOSL Incubator for Healthcare Innovation in June 2023. The 6 month pilot used arts-based experiential learning to help Fiocruz advance vital new innovations in public health and to strengthen the innovative skills of its cross disciplinary innovation teams. By early 2024, several innovations had already successfully gone to market, and in April 2024, the project won Brazil's prestigious 2024 Convergence Award for Innovation Learning.
"Advancing in Innovation" at the University of Texas
"Advancing in Innovation" at the University of Texas
"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."
Creating Futures that Work at FSU
"Advancing in Innovation" at the University of Texas
"Advancing in Innovation" at the University of Texas
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).