Harvey Seifter, founder of Seifter Associates and co-founder of the new firm Creating Futures That Work, uses arts-based learning to advance business achievements and enhance workplace creativity. Creating Futures That Work partners artistic and scientific techniques to improve participants' creativity, resilience, empathy, and problem-solving skills. The firm assesses skills gaps, provides targeted training through experiential art activities, and re-assesses participants to measure the impact of the training.

1. Creating Futures That Work Aims
to Enhance Workplace Creativity
By: Harvey Seifter

2. Creating Futures That Work Aims to Enhance
Workplace Creativity
The founder and president of Seifter Associates in New York, NY, Harvey Seifter possesses
extensive experience in arts-based learning programs in the academic and corporate sectors. The
author of the report “Closing the Innovation Gap: How the Arts are Becoming the New Competitive
Advantage,” Harvey Seifter recently co-founded a new firm called Creating Futures That Work.

3. Creating Futures That Work Aims to Enhance
Workplace Creativity
Advancing business achievements with experiential arts-based learning, Creating Futures That
Work is a partnership between Mr. Seifter and Fred Mandell, PhD, who is chairman of the board of
the Global Institute for the Arts and Leadership and the author of “Can Art Save Us?” With a
combination of artistic and scientific techniques, Creating Futures That Work focuses on improving
the creativity, resilience, empathy, and problem-solving skills of participants.

4. Creating Futures That Work Aims to Enhance
Workplace Creativity
In addition to planning high-impact experiential art activities, the experts at Creating Futures That
Work assess existing gaps in staff members’ skills. After targeted training is complete, the
assessment is re-administered to measure the impact of the training.