Josh Seidenfeld and James C. Kaufman

Founder, Messier & Psychology Professor

Josh founded Messier, a "Headspace for creativity", to help busy people make space in their day for a little creativity. He's had day jobs at places like Apple and Meta, and is the songwriter behind the band Boy in the Bubble.

James C. Kaufman leads Messier's Science Advisory Board. He is the author/editor of more than 50 books, including Creativity 101 (2nd Edition, 2016) and the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (2nd Edition, 2019; with Robert Sternberg). He has published more than 300 papers, including the study that spawned the “Sylvia Plath Effect,” and three well-known theories of creativity, including (with Ron Beghetto) the Four-C Model of Creativity. He is a past president of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association.