Imagination and creativity are vital for understanding and addressing the unprecedented challenges that businesses and society are facing today. Attend in-person or online, to discuss what business leaders can learn from the artist's creative process.

Carol Becker, a prolific writer and speaker on the role of the arts in society and the development of creative leadership, will discuss with Professor Nikos Mylonopoulos, Director of the SEV Center of Excellence in Creative Leadership, and Georgia Kotretsos, Visual Artist, Founder of THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY, Arts & Culture Research Lab Observatorium, Associate Lecturer, Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts, Deree - The American College of Greece. Through the achievements of artists and leaders, this conversation will highlight that the arts are not only a source of beauty and culture, but also a powerful way of learning, problem-solving, and changing organizations and society.

During this discussion Carol Becker will draw on examples from her own career and from the achievements of artists and leaders who have leveraged the arts to create positive change. She will show how the arts are not only a source of beauty and culture, but also a powerful way of learning, problem-solving, and changing organizations and society.

As an academic leader and public intellectual, Carol Becker has transformed arts education, and via arts education she has championed the transformative role of the arts in nearly every aspect of public life, from urban development, to social entrepreneurship and climate change. She has brought the sensibility of the artist to the forefront of every discourse, alongside the scientific/technological mindset and the pragmatism of business management, through her work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Columbia University School of the Arts, and the World Economic Forum.