Harvey Seifter

The founder and President of a consulting firm that uses arts-based and creative learning to strengthen innovation, improve employee performance and boost revenues at global corporations, Harvey Seifter brings more than two decades of experience in arts management and a record of success to his clients. Since launching Seifter Associates in 1995, Harvey Seifter has partnered with industry-leading firms such as IBM, Morgan Stanley, Johnson and Johnson and General Electric. In addition, he has served on the senior executive faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and guest lectured as such prominent institutions of higher education as New York University; the University of California, Berkeley; and Hitotsubashi University Tokyo. Harvey Seifter has accumulated a number of industry awards over the course of his career, including a designation as a Peter F. Drucker Foundation Thought Leader. He also holds the title of Fellow of the Royal Society for Art.

In addition to his work at Seifter Associates, Harvey Seifter directs and serves as Principal Investigator for The Art of Science Learning, which examines ways of developing an innovative and scientifically literate 21st Century American workforce through creative learning. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach to STEM education and breaking new ground in the application of arts-based inquiry to non-artistic fields, he and his associates seek to improve strengthen the United States' competitiveness performance in global innovation, business, and manufacturing.

The author of Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World's Only Conductorless Orchestra, Harvey Seifter also participates on the Banff Leadership Centre's International Advisory Council. He formerly served as Principal Artistic Advisor for the National Music Center & Museum in Washington, D.C., and Executive Director of the world-renowned Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which performs at New York City's Carnegie Hall.