ROSAMND STONE ZANDER, an executive coach and family systems theraphist, develops models for leadership, relationship, and effective action. She proposes a theory of human development that promotes creativity as an essential adult capacity. Ms. Zander has designed programs for corporations as well as government agencies, and has conducted workshops in a variety of settings, including the Aspen Institute, the British Civil Cervice, National Public Radio, and the World Economic Forum. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, her professional studies include a B.A. from Swarthmore College, grauate studies at the Bank Street College of Education, and an M.S.S. from Boston University's School of Social Work. She has held positions as a child therapist at the celebrated Master's Children's Center in New York City and as asupervisor and instrucor in family therapy at the Kantor Family Institute and The Family Center in Somerville, Massachusetts. Ms. Zander is currently in private practice in Cambridge and runs an Accomplishment Program that enables people to complete major projects. A gifted artist, she had her first one-person exhibition as a landscape painter in 1981.

BENJAMIN ZANDER has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic sinceits formation in 1979. He has appeared as guest conductor with orchestra around the world, giving regular oerformances with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, with whom he is recording the complete cycles of Beethovan and Mahler symphonies for Telarc Records. He has taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for more than thirty years, runs a music program for young performing artists at the Walnut Hill School, and conducts and tours with the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. Born in England, Zander began composing at age nine, studied under Benjain Britten and Imogen Holst, and trained as a cellist in Italy and Germany with cello virtuoso Gaspar Cassado. He received a degree from University College, London, and pursued postgraduate studies at Harvard and in New York on a Harkness Fellowship. Over the past ten years, Zander has become a sought-after speaker to major organizations for his presentations on leadership and creativity. In 1999, he received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, for his outstanding contribution to crosscultural understanding.

The dynamic product of and extraordinary partnership, The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for creating innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment.

The author's hormoniously interwoen perspecives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the Zanders invite us all to become passionate communicators, leaders and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world