Imagine if you could make effective progress with no clear plan or destination in view, achieve excellence without sacrificing creativity, and invest passion even as you apply reason and intelligence.

Artistry Unleashed is about working and living at the edge of what you know and beyond. Surprise, uncertainty, ambiguity, intensity, and change are all disruptive forces that we often avoid or fear. Yet they are the essential origin of both creativity and great performance.

Learn how artistry, when allowed to escape studio walls, can motivate painters, CEOs, athletes, scientists, chefs, and you to achieve these powerful capabilities. Artistry Unleashed provides original and practical tools to transform what we think about artistry's role in professions, in organizations, in education, and, most importantly, in everyday life.

Dr. Hilary Austen was an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and sat on the dean’s advisory board. Co-founder of Catalyst Consulting Team and the Brain Integration Center, she holds a PhD in Education from Stanford University, and an MA in Cybernetic Systems. Her consulting business, Artistry Unleashed, is based in Sonoma County, California, where she lives with her husband on a 25-acre organic farm. @backyardterroir

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Roger Martin is Dean, Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness, and Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

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"No one ever marveled at the 'science of leadership'; great leadership is about developing great judgment. Hilary Austen's brilliant book helped me to see that it is the 'art of leadership' that will lead in the 21st century."

Chip Conley, CEO Joie De Vivre Hotels and author of 'PEAK'

‘Here is the big idea: The new MBA is an MFA. Artistry Unleashed could be the most important business book you’ll ever read."

Alan M. Webber, co-founder, <em>Fast Company</em> magazine; author of <em>Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Your Self</em>

"We’re all artists now. That’s the urgent aspiration at the heart of this provocative, rigorous, and profoundly important exploration of work as art. This is not a liberal arts extracurricular. It goes right to the heart of the most vital ambitions of leaders today."

Polly LaBarre, co-author of <em>Mavericks at Work</em>; editorial director, Management Innovation eXchange

"When artists create art, it is usually perceived as a kind of sorcery that a more left-brained person might appreciate, dismissing their own ability to make the same kind of magic. To remedy this divide, Austen has produced an elegant volume that connects the quantitative world of business with the qualitative world of artists. Not the usual "7 secrets of a leader" you'd normally find in the business section, this book provides important new tools in an incredibly digestible form."

John Maeda, President, Rhode Island School of Design

"In a world suffocating in data, Artistry Unleashed is a breath of fresh air. Hilary Austen shows how mastery in the arts depends on connoisseurship, judgment, and "feel."

Sir Ken Robinson, educator; <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything</em>