Harvey Seifter is one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity and arts-based learning. Through Seifter Associates, the New York City-based consulting firm he founded in 1995, Harvey designs and teaches arts-based leadership and innovation programs for General Electric at GE’s Crotonville Global Leadership Development Center. Seifter Associates has also implemented innovation, collaboration and leadership development and culture change projects at IBM, AstraZeneca, Real Networks, Takeda, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, Siemens, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs and BMW.
Harvey is also Director and Principal Investigator of The Art of Science Learning, a $3 million National Science Foundation-funded initiative that uses the arts to spark creativity in science education and technology innovation, and the author of Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World’s Only Conductor-less Orchestra.
He served on the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Senior Executive Faculty (2002-05); lectured at Université de Paris, Hitotsubashi University, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the National Academy of Science; and keynoted at the International Leadership Association Global Conference, Transatlantic Forum and the China Global Innovation Conference.
A Fellow of the Royal Society for Art and a member of the Banff Leadership Center International Advisory Board, Harvey has participated in the White House Global Cultural Initiative and been honored as a Peter Drucker Foundation Thought Leader.
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