Fred Mandell | Author | Artist | Speaker

Fred Mandell's New Book

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The Artist’s Way meets What Color Is Your Parachute? in an innovative approach to reinventing yourself at any stage of life.

Leonardo Da Vinci, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Berthe Morisot —these are some of the greatest creatives in history. What do these artists have in common with people in the midst of a major life transition? The skills they used to produce their masterpieces are the same skills required to make successful shifts—whether it’s finding a new career or a new purpose or calling in life. In Becoming a Life Change Artist, former business executive, artist and creative catalyst Fred Mandell and Kathleen Jordan, a psychologist, coach and leading authority on organizational change, share the groundbreaking approach made popular in their workshops and presentations across the country. Here, they argue that at its heart, life change is not an orderly step-by-step process. Instead, like all creative processes it is full of stops and starts. However, there are seven key skills that the most creative minds of history shared, and that anyone rethinking their future can cultivate to change their life effectively. They are:

• Preparing the brain to undertake creative work
• Seeing the world and one’s life from new perspectives
• Using context to understand the facets of one’s life
• Embracing uncertainty
• Taking risks
• Applying discipline
• Collaborating

With targeted exercises throughout, this is a book for all ages and stages—from people facing an uncertain job market through Mid-lifers about to embark on their next chapter. Becoming a Life Change Artist sparks the luminous creativity that lies within each of us.

Becoming A Life Change Artist is scheduled for publication by Penguin Putnam under their Avery label on August 3, 2010.

Are you creating what really matters in your life?

Fred invites you to find inspiration, courage and wisdom in an unexpected resource.

The great masters of art can teach you how to transform the way you look at your life and its possibilities.

The great artists can show you how to master the very same creative skills they called upon to
create their remarkable body of work and apply them to your life and your leadership. Whether
you are trying to make changes in your personal life or in your work the great artists can teach
you how to unlock your full creative powers and become a Life Change Artist.

For the past ten years Fred has been on the path to becoming a Life Change Artist.
He has personally embarked on a journey that has taken him from a successful corporate
executive to author, artist, speaker and creative catalyst. He now challenges individuals and
groups large and small to view their lives as opportunities to create a vibrant next chapter by
liberating their inborn creative powers. His provocative challenge to leaders is to become life
change artists for themselves and those they touch. His unique combination of practical savvy
and imaginative daring helps individuals and leaders translate their aspirations into new realities.