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Sound Leadership
Leadership Training Curriculum for Music Students
Let your students take ownership of their own learning and leading through Sound Leadership, a leadership method book for band, choir, and orchestra students. This book is designed to help facilitate an engaging and collaborative process between both student leaders and program directors that allows for self-discovery, goal-setting, and defining roles and responsibilities.
The book guides students through a personal leadership inventory, task assessment and job creation, situational discussions, full-team evaluations, leadership contracts, performance reviews, and goal-setting activities.
Less about delivering answers and more about asking the right questions, Sound Leadership empowers students to reflect, lead with intention, and discover their own “aha!” moments along the way.
Leadership Travel Guide
Interactive Leadership Training for Music Students
Empower your students to lead with purpose through The Leadership Travel Guide, a leadership resource designed for student leaders in band, choir, and orchestra programs. This book provides a structured and interactive journey that helps students grow as individuals and as a team—while strengthening your entire program.
Built around a clear, collaborative framework, the guide includes two student workbooks and walks students through reflection activities, leadership exercises, real-world applications, and meaningful team-building moments.
Like all of my resources, The Leadership Travel Guide isn’t about giving students all the answers - it’s about helping them ask better questions, take ownership, and discover what it really means to lead from within.
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.
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.
Real Talk for the Real World of Music Education
Leadership feels lighter when your’e not carrying it alone.
Get weekly leadership insights built for your podium life, access to a private director community, quarterly Zoom sessions, coaching support, student-ready tools, and just enough humor to survive the Tuesday-after-a-Monday. $5.99/month—and worth every penny of your peace of mind.
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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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