NEW EPISODE: CONVERSATION FROM THE CROSSROADS "Stop overthinking and hit the note" The Beatles, the Allman Brothers, and music as a metaphor for leadership

Sean Gaillard discovered the Beatles in fifth grade when his British teacher demanded he listen to them as penance for foul language. When he first found the Allman Brothers, seeing Jaimoe front and center in the Brothers and Sisters gatefold made him feel he belonged.

These entry points were invitations, and Sean has spent a lifetime of practice around the idea that the music we love isn’t just soundtrack. It’s also instruction.

Sean is a teacher, school administrator, author, a podcaster, and music lover. He’s one of those people who moves seamlessly from Billy Preston to Butch Trucks to Booker T. and back again to John Lennon.

Sean’s framework—music as metaphor, music as leadership lesson, music as shared humanity—intersects so closely with my own, we often ride in parallel.