About Anne

Anne Palmer, DMA, is a musician, neuroarts practitioner, and consultant who helps people and organizations navigate change using creative, research-informed approaches that support leadership, culture, and wellbeing.

Her work is shaped by lived experience with significant transition.

As a professional singer who later experienced profound hearing loss and became a bilateral cochlear implant recipient, Anne faced both the loss and retraining of her musical perception and professional identity.

Navigating that period of disruption and adaptation fundamentally reshaped how she understands listening, attention, and growth. What began as a personal process of relearning perception became the foundation for a new way of approaching change through curiosity, creativity, and care.

That experience became the foundation for Rewriting the Score™, a five-movement framework grounded in listening, reimagining, practice, reintegration, and becoming. The framework informs Anne’s speaking, consulting, coaching, and collaborative work, offering a practical and deeply human approach to change, particularly when familiar ways of working, leading, or being no longer fit.

Today, Anne works across sectors with individuals, teams, and organizations navigating transition, organizational change, and complex human challenges. Her work brings together neuroarts research, creative practice, and lived experience to help people move insight into action.

That same listening-centered approach also shapes Anne’s private listening sessions and creative voice practice, where individuals explore expression, perception, and change through sound, conversation, and artistic exploration.

Alongside her independent work through the Center for Arts & Wellbeing, Anne collaborates with research and practice initiatives including the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Across all contexts, her work is guided by a commitment to accessibility, belonging, and the belief that creativity is a vital resource for individual and collective wellbeing.

Anne holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) and is a nationally recognized speaker and consultant working at the intersection of the arts, neuroscience, and wellbeing, translating research and creative practice into meaningful human experience.