The Director’s Hub
For the ones keeping the wheels turning and the kids inspired.
Teaching music is a soul-sucking,
life-draining profession, because music is a soul-enriching, life-changing activity.
- Scott Lang
Stronger Leaders.
Stronger Programs.
Assess Your Team
This quick (and uncomfortably honest) assessment gives you a clear picture of your student leadership team - what’s working, what’s not, and what to do next.
Our aim is to make better musicians by making better people. Leadership University is a sequential and scalable five-week leadership training program designed to be delivered to your students every other day, with one actionable item for the next rehearsal. Set aside five minutes of rehearsal time and talk about that day’s lesson.
Overview
Week 1 Sample:
Rethinking Music
Week 2 Sample:
Being You
Week 3 Sample:
Working With Others
What’s Inside, How It Works, and Why It’ll Change the Way Your Team Leads.
A Kickstart for Your Culture.
Student workshops, staff trainings, DIY resources, or keynotes that cut through the noise - I I bring the kind of message that will get you nodding, your students thinking, and your team moving.
Weekly Wisdom, Real-World Tools, and the Occasional
Kick in the Pants
Give yourself the gift of not figuring it out alone.
Weekly leadership insights, private community access, quarterly live Zooms, student resources, coaching, and enough humor to get you through the hard days. $5.99 a month, and probably worth way more in saved sanity.
Free Resources That Actually Help
No paywalls. No catch. Just tools to help you lead better and stress less.
Explore interactive leadership quizzes, downloadable PDFs, and sneak peeks of Scott’s books - all designed to make your life a little easier and your leadership a lot stronger.
Because sometimes the best things in life are free.
Interactive Quizzes
What Kind of Leader Are You?
(For Directors, Students & Parents)
Leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. It’s a mix of your mindset, habits, and how you show up when things get real. Find out what kind of leader you’re being today, and what to do next.
Step Up, Step Back Leadership Reflection
(For Students)
Look inward, lead outward. This interactive quiz will help you better understand how you naturally lead, and give you next steps to grow.
Leadership Team Assessment
(For Directors)
This quick (and uncomfortably honest) assessment gives you a clear picture of your student leadership team - what’s working, what’s not, and what to do next.
Blessings, Curses & Chaos
(For Students)
You’ve got some superpowers and a few habits that could blow up the rehearsal. This quiz helps you understand them both and gives you a game plan to serve where you shine the best.
PDF Downloads
Leadership Self Assessment
(For Students)
Leadership doesn’t come with instructions—this self-assessment helps you align how you lead with what you believe.
Music Advocacy Data
A mic-drop collection of research, stats, and straight-up proof that music education isn’t extra—it’s essential.
25 Discussion Starters
25 real-world leadership dilemmas to spark honest conversations and challenge how students think, act, and lead.
Book Samples
Sound Leadership
Leadership curriculum for Music Students - band, orchestra and choir.
Leader of the Band
Lessons for the Young Teacher in All of Us
Leadership Travel Guide
A hands-on leadership guide to grow student leaders and strengthen your music program from the inside out.
Music FUNdations
A revolutionary and radically fun approach to music learning
For the Podium, Not the Bookshelf
Our aim is to make better musicians by making better people. Leadership University is a sequential and scalable five-week leadership training program designed to be delivered to your students every other day, with one actionable item for the next rehearsal. Set aside five minutes of rehearsal time and talk about that day’s lesson.
Music FUNdations
Innovative Musical Activity Book for Students
Let’s be honest—most method books are about as exciting as a metronome at 40 bpm. That’s why Music FUNdations flips the script. Packed with games, activities, reflection prompts, and laugh-out-loud moments, this isn’t just about making better musicians (though it does that). It’s about making better humans—and having a blast along the way.
Co-created by Robert Sheldon (legend) and Scott Lang (chaos enthusiast), this radically fun workbook turns music learning into something students look forward to. And when it’s done? You’ve got a keepsake journal full of growth, grit, and doodles. Your students will remember how they felt while learning—and that’s the kind of education that sticks.
High Fives & Honest Words
Got questions? Good.
That means you’re paying attention.
Even better?
You’ve got backup.
Leadership is messy, loud, and complicated. If you’ve got questions, good—you’re paying attention. I’ve got answers, straight from someone who’s seen it all and somehow still loves it. I read and respond to every email (after a little coffee, of course), because leadership’s too hard to figure out alone - and you shouldn’t have to.
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