Creativity, Leadership & the Arts
Dr. Isaacson delivers talks for arts leaders, educators, and nonprofit professionals wrestling with how to honor tradition while making room for what's next. Drawing on her experience founding and leading Classical Uprising, she brings a practitioner's perspective to questions of creative leadership, audience engagement, and cultural evolution — moving fluidly between the artistic and the organizational, the visionary and the practical, and translating the lessons of the stage into frameworks for real change.
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RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE:
This Is Not a Concert: How Choirs Can Compete in the Attention Economy featured speaker at Chorus America
Taking classical music off the stage and into the mud on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley
How to Make A Classical Uprising featured speaker at the Association of California Orchestras
Breaking Out of the Box on Arts. Work. Life. podcast hosted by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals
Arts and Sustainability panel discussion at St. Katherine University
The Art of Gathering: Rethinking Tradition with Classical Uprising guest on the podcast Pivot by Culture for Hire
“How to build a career in entertainment and the performing arts with a liberal arts degree” panel discussion with Andrew Gould, Executive Vice President of Publishing at Roc Nation
“Expanding Your Reach: Artistic and Community Collaborations” featured speaker at American Choral Directors Association
Guest Speaker at Williams, Wellesley, and Bowdoin Colleges and the Universities of Oregon and Southern, Maine
