Dr. Javier Clavere

Artist, Brainstormer, Business adviser, Business mentor, Care taker, Change Agent, Christian, Concerned citizen, Consultant, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Event planner, Idea generator, Life mentor, Musician, Parent, Performer, Philanthropist, Project manager, Promoter, Scientist, Social entrepreneur, Student, Technologist, Writer/Editor

Javier Clavere is an award-winning polymath scholar and performer. His research interests include systems theory, entrepreneurship, Stoicism, Pragmatism, Christianity, sacred music, popular music, Foucauldian studies, semiotics, semioethics, semiotics and globalization, multi-modality and the semiotics of educational processes. His research in educational leadership includes peace and conflict resolution-transformation through the arts, as well as leadership in systemic change, higher education administration, assessment in higher education and strategic program design. His training and expertise in technology have expanded into music production, audio engineering, recording, live streaming, e-media, video production, and instructional technologies and pedagogies. Dr. Clavere was invited as a keynote speaker at International Conferences in Semiotics, Pragmatism and Music. In 2019 he was invited to deliver a keynote address at the “XIX International Meeting on Pragmatism,” organized by the Philosophy Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. That same year, the city of Rosario, in conjunction with the National University of Rosario Argentina, granted Dr. Clavere by Decree No. 56.784 the lifetime achievement award and title of “Distinguished Musician.” Dr. Clavere is the executive director of the philosophical society—The Semiotic Society of America—where he is the legal representative overseeing the financial and operational responsibilities of the Society, leading the scholarly and research documentation of the Society, including the production and distribution of the peer-reviewed journal, and supervising the editorial boards of The American Journal of Semiotics (ISSN 0277 - 7126) and the Yearbook of the Semiotic Society of America. Fellow of the New Leadership Academy, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, University of Michigan; a Fellow, Salzburg Global Seminar, “Conflict Transformation Through Culture: Peace-building and the Arts,” in Salzburg, Austria. In his work with diversity with Dr. Valeria Watkins he was registered as a business consultant providing solutions in the state of Kentucky providing training and strategic planning in team development, organizational advancement, safety and human interaction, safety, trauma, and adverse childhood experience, institutional assessment, bias and incident response, internet safety, cyber-bullying, and social media safety, protocol design for safety response and crisis intervention, and financial literacy, while providing tools for human flourishing. His company, LDSolutions, won the second prize at the Gatton College of Business and Economics, Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2021 Competition at the University of Kentucky with the project “Financial Literacy for Equity and Access.” Dr. Clavere's research includes business models, entrepreneurship for the arts, and arts for social change. As an artist, Javier has performed in many prestigious concert series across the United States, South America and Europe performing with orchestras, in solo recitals and chamber music. In 1994 he was privileged to perform on Vladimir Horowitz’s piano featuring the famed pianist’s instrument, organized by Steinway and Sons. He was an artist in residence of the Utah Arts Council Performing Arts Tour. Dr. Clavere was born in Rosario, Argentina, and was invited to the United States on a full scholarship to attend Brigham Young University. His graduate studies followed at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati.

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