Corinne Zimmermann

Corinne Zimmermann is an expert in experiential learning and museum-based education for health professionals. After decades of experience in higher education, museums and healthcare, she now consults with Hailey Group as well as runs her own consultancy. She regularly leads workshops focused on multidisciplinary team-building, compassionate leadership, and strategies for cultivating well-being, empathy, and resilience. Corinne works with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, Mount Auburn Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. She is co-founder and co-director of the Harvard Macy Fellowship for Art Museum-Based Education for Health Professions Educators. With Hailey Group team members Philip Yenawine and Dabney Hailey Corinne cofounded VTS@Work, the first program to deeply train and certify professionals in VTS facilitation and its application on business and other materials.

As a museum educator, she was most recently Director of Interpretation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and before that, Senior Museum Educator at the Harvard Art Museums, where she worked with the business school, medical school, divinity school, and others. From 2008-2010, she served as New England Regional Director for Visual Understanding in Education, home of the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS).  She also served as a Creativity Consultant for first-year graduate students at the Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College from 2009-15.