Academy for the Love of Learning Founder and Director, Leader of Core Faculty
Aaron is a composer, teacher, and internationally recognized consultant on learning. He conducts consultancies and seminars throughout the United States and in Europe, and is a board member of the Mind & Life Institute.
Aaron Stern conceived the Academy with famed musician Leonard Bernstein, and serves as its President. As educational leader of the Academy, Stern designed and directs the Academy’s core curriculum and foundational program, Leading by Being®.
The Academy for the Love of Learning was conceived in the middle 1980s and developed over the next decade. The organization was founded formally in 1998 as a non-profit “think and do tank”. The intent of the Academy has been to develop and practice transformative learning methods that reanimate the love of learning in people of all ages while awakening a secular-based moral and ethical framework for human learning and engagement.
During the early 1980s Stern served as Dean of the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. It was there that he began to focus his attention on learning and educational processes, developing creative experiential curricula that won national acclaim. This early work laid the foundation for what is now the Academy for the Love of Learning.