Astrid Baumgardner
I strive to inspire and empower my students to be leaders in the world of the arts in order to ensure that the arts are vital, essential and alive in our culture. I help my students explore and embrace their unique gifts and show them how to deepen and grow their talents in the service of the arts. I encourage proactive experimentation, risk-taking and learning from mistakes. I provide my students with entrepreneurial, social and psychological skills and tools so that they may embrace the challenges in the world of the arts and create successful lives.
Astrid Baumgardner
Astrid Baumgardner, JD, PCC, brings her experience as a career and executive coach, lawyer, non-profit executive and consultant, and music board chair to help musicians, arts leaders, lawyers and creative professionals achieve creative success. She is the author of Creative Success Now: How Creatives Can Thrive in the 21st Century.
At the Yale School of Music, Baumgardner heads the Office of Career Strategies. She provides individual and group career coaching to students and teaches a graduate-level class in career strategies. Baumgardner also guest lectures widely at other conservatories and arts leadership programs and enjoys speaking on topics including creative success and inspired leadership.
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the Rutgers University Newark School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review, Baumgardner practiced law in New York City for twenty-five years. Combining her professional skills with her love of the arts, she then served as the Deputy Executive Director of the French Institute Alliance Française of New York and later as an independent consultant to nonprofit arts boards before starting her coaching business.
