About Anne

Anne Palmer, DMA, is a musician, neuroarts practitioner, and consultant who helps people and organizations navigate change—using creative and research-informed approaches to 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 the loss—and retraining—of her musical perception and professional identity. Navigating that period of disruption and adaptation fundamentally changed how she understands listening, attention, and growth.

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, perceptual, 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 career transitions, organizational change, and complex human challenges. Her work brings together neuroarts research, creative practice, and lived experience to help insight move into practice with clarity and intention.

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.