Why artists must begin seeing themselves as leaders, not just creators.

For years, we've been teaching artists how to make music, distribute music, promote music, and monetize music.

But there's a question I believe we haven't spent nearly enough time asking:

What are you actually building with your music?

Not what are you releasing next.

Not how many streams you're getting.

Not even how many people know your name.

What are you building?

Because those are very different conversations.

And a few years ago, I began…

Why I'm interested in the employee side of workplace learning.

I've been thinking about something as I continue working with U-Music.

We spend a lot of time talking about what organizations need employees to learn.

But how often do we ask employees how they actually want to learn?

Think about starting a new job.

You're motivated. You want to make a good impression. You want to understand what you're doing.

And then you're handed hours of training materials.

Slides. Videos. Quizzes. More slides.

You complete…

The story behind ARTIS OS, creative leadership, and learning that independence doesn't have to mean figuring everything out alone.

There's something strange about spending more than two decades in the music industry and still occasionally asking yourself:

Am I doing this right?

Not because I don't know what I'm doing.

But because there's always something else to learn, another decision to make, another responsibility to manage, and another opportunity that requires figuring out what comes next.

I've been an…