SEA Conference Lecture: Creating Value in Life and From Art – Full Session
Lisa Canning
Lisa Canning is an accomplished clarinetist and entrepreneur who created four multi-million dollar ventures and has performed with members of the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Florida Symphony Orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony. Canning spent ten years as a faculty staff member at DePaul University in Chicago, where she developed a Career Development Course for Artistic Disciplines. She frequently speaks at events and gives workshops on entrepreneurship in the arts.
Musician and entrepreneur Lisa Canning shares her interpretation of social entrepreneurship as it applies to the arts, encouraging audience members to identify their own personal missions and the ways in which they can achieve them through artistic means for the greater good as well as financial gain.