409 "Love+Live+Life" Podcast - Elliott Masie - Broadway Producer, Learning Innovator, Change Agent

In this episode I invited Elliott Masie. He's a Broadway Producer, Learning Innovator, Change Agent .

We talked about

- Entrepreneurship; Seeing life as a series of Projects and experiments
- Future of Broadway; Improving representation, from writers to the audience, beyond what we see on stage.
- Intersectionality; Learning the language of people with different world views

Guest Bio

Elliott Masie is a Broadway Producer, Learning Innovator and Change Agent. Over the past 50 years, Elliott has provided leadership, facilitation and support for Theater, Learning Technology and Social Change.

Elliott Masie is a provocative, engaging, and entertaining researcher, educator, analyst, and speaker - focused on the changing world of the workplace, learning, and technology. Elliott is acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term eLearning and has advocated for a sane deployment of learning and collaboration technology as a means of supporting the effectiveness and profitability of enterprises.

He leads the Learning COLLABORATIVE, a coalition of 75 global organizations cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies. Members include Amazon, Zoom, Bank of America, Subway, The Hartford, and others.

He is the editor of e-NOTES & Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie (Internet newsletters read by business executives worldwide), and a regular columnist in professional publications, including CLO Magazine. He is the author of 12 books, including the ASTD/MASIE Center’s Big Learning Data and recent eBooks on “Learning Pivots” and “Empathy”.

His Broadway and Theater Focus includes roles as producers for over 29 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows including Kinky Boots, The Prom, Allegiance, Seared, Anastasia, American Son and a wide range of socially focused productions.

In the past year, Telly Leung (Star of Aladdin, Glee and Allegiance) and Elliott have produced 34 Empathy Concerts for the business world, presenting leading Broadway entertainers and business leaders – to explore and advocate the role of Empathy in these changing and challenging times. The have donated over $30,000 to the Actors Fund as an outgrowth of the Empathy Concerts.

Website www.Masie.com

Show Note

00:32 What is a fun fact that most people don’t know about you?

02:12 You are a serial innovator. How did it all begin?

03:25 *Quote* - I always see my life as projects.

06:12 You started working with people such as Bill Gates, Michelle Obama..what was that like for you?

11:15 Broadway is reopening, and people are talking, what are the changes that you want to see?

18:05 Future of Broadway; Exploring Poli-media Storytelling

21:42 *Quote* - Stories have life.

22:19 What is an Empathy Concert?

26:00 Integration of Arts and storytelling, do you think that’s going to happen more?

32:32 Learning about the languages of different worlds.

36:13 Can you share about your upcoming event “Learning Festival”?

39:03 How can you share how people can learn more about your work?

40:08 What is a message/call to action that you want to share with the world?

CALL TO ACTION

Have conversations with people who are different from us.

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