Tom Sturges

Author, Speaker, Mentor, President , Tom Sturges Music

About This Expert

Tom Sturges is an accomplished music industry executive, established author and sought after teacher and speaker. As a senior executive with influential music publishing houses like Chrysalis Music and Universal Music, Tom has signed some of the biggest names in the business such as the Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Outkast & Goodie Mob, Jack Johnson and Chris Brown. Having presented at the Aspen Ideas Festival, The Aspen Challenge, USC, UCLA, Princeton, and NYU, Tom is regularly called upon to speak about creativity and motivation.

Tom has authored two books on parenting, Parking Lot Rules (Ballantine Books, May 2008) and Grow the Tree You Got (Penguin/Tarcher, May 2011). Tom’s new book on creativity, Every Idea is a Good Idea: Be Creative Anytime, Anywhere (Penguin/Tarcher), is currently available for presale now and will be released September 25, 2014