Description
True leadership is about seeing potential in people and spaces, then creating conditions where that potential can flourish.
In this session, we’ll explore what it means to lead creatively in any context: managing a team, building an organization, teaching, mentoring, or championing ideas in your community. We’ll examine how mindfulness practices can support psychological safety and trust, help you weave purpose and authenticity into your vision, and deepen how you connect with others.
Through real examples and interactive exercises, you’ll engage with frameworks for creative problem-solving, techniques for amplifying the voices and gifts of others, and explore mindset shifts that support leading with clarity and heart.
This session is for anyone who believes that the best organizations, teams, and communities are built on genuine connection, shared purpose, and the belief that people are capable of extraordinary things.
Because leadership, at its core, is about elevating others. And that’s creative work.
Speaker:
Erin Provencher
Erin Provencher is the Lead Story Marketer at Grid Collective, where she channels her passion for elevating people and amplifying impactful stories into meaningful work for the community. A singer-songwriter, yoga teacher, and voiceover artist with In Your Ear Studios, Erin brings creative depth to everything she does, and in December 2024, was recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 Honoree by Style Weekly.
Beyond her professional work, Erin is deeply committed to bringing hope and healing to communities worldwide through accessible music and wellness experiences. Her volunteer work as a musician has taken her to orphanages, refugee camps, and juvenile detention centers across Africa, Europe, and North America… places where music becomes medicine and connection becomes transformation.
Locally, she channels this mission through founding Gals for a Cause RVA, serving as a Teaching Artist with FreeHorse Arts, and previously mentoring as a Big Sister through BBBS and as a Teaching Artist/Performer with SPARC’s inclusive LIVE ART program. Her dedication to community impact has been recognized with the Crisis Response Philanthropy Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), honors including Gallery 5 Movers and Shakers and James Madison University’s 100 Years, 100 Days, 100 Dukes ‘One World’ Program, and an induction into JMU’s ‘Be The Change’ Hall of Fame.
