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Coaching for Leaders · 2025-08-18 · 39 min · 6,673 words

745: How Music Can Help Us Lead, with Mort Sherman

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So many of us love music and it's often at the soul of a lot of our personal lives and celebrations and, of course, emotions, but we don't often think about how we can leverage its power at work. In this episode, how music can help us set the tone for better leadership. This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 745. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave. Stahoviak, leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. So many of us enjoy the arts in our lives and in our work, and so many of us enjoy music, but we don't often think about how music can actually enhance our work and how it can actually help us to lead. better.

Today, a conversation looking at some of the intersections of what we often think about in the personal domain, but the opportunity that we have to bring music into leadership in a way that helps us to lead more effectively, brings joy and movement into our organizations. I'm so pleased to welcome Mort Sherman to the show. Mort is the retired Senior Associate Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators, known for his visionary leadership as a superintendent, dedicated to elevating academic standards and promoting equitable education. Throughout his career, he championed initiatives that addressed achievement gaps and empowered communities to foster inclusive, impactful learning environments.

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