Episode 13 - Creative Success Now with Astrid Baumgardner

Astrid Baumgardner, JD, PCC, is the lawyer, career coach, speaker, and author of Creative Success Now: How Creatives Thrive in the 21st Century who teaches Creativity and Entrepreneurship at Yale’s University School of Music to musicians and arts leaders on their career path. As a professional speaker, she’s been recently featured in TEDx talk with the topic - Cracking the Code on Creativity: The Secret to Full-Blast Living. Her entire career is built upon the initiative that she loves helping creative people be successful. 

Being the President of her coaching company - Astrid Baumgardner Coaching + Training, Astrid’s main students and clients are musicians, arts leaders, and creative professionals. She also handles guest lectures on creative success at conservatories and summer festivals, including The Juilliard School, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sō Percussion Summer Institute and Idyllwild Arts. She’s even conducted leadership training workshops at Opera America and Ensemble Connect, the teaching artist academy at Carnegie Hall. 

In her early years, Astrid graduated from Mount Holyoke College and Rutgers Newark School of Law where she became a member of the Law Review and practiced law in New York City for 25 years. She later on moved to combine her professional skills with her love for the arts and served as Deputy Executive Director of the French Institute Alliance Française of New York and subsequently became an independent consultant to nonprofit art boards. 

As for her musical career, Astrid is a lifelong amateur pianist and a champion of new music. She is a board member of and was previously the board Chair of the Sō 

Percussion and board member, previous Chair, and Co-Chair of the board of the American Composers Orchestra. 

Astrid’s book, Creative Success Now: How Creatives Thrive in the 21st Century, is available in all major bookstores and her TEDx feature - Cracking the Code on Creativity, can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IAJsmOq6cg

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