Good jazz and high performance business depend on creativity,
agility, empathy and flexibility. The similarities don't end there. The
business lessons of jazz focus on high performance teamwork,
multitasking, cross-functional awareness, innovation and responsiveness
to change. Jazz translates seamlessly across cultures and serves as a social model that can be leveraged to teach business the skills of collaboration.
Jazz Impact
is a fusion of insights and parallels drawn from the world of business
illustrated through the experience of jazz. Through live music and
interactive engagement, Jazz Impact delivers perspectives and techniques
that will have an IMMEDIATE effect on your people and your business.
Jazz is an art form unique to the modern world. Jazz isn't about
producing an object of art like a painting or a sculpture. Jazz is
actually a social process that results in the constant creation of new
ideas and innovative musical interaction.
The members of the high performance team called the jazz ensemble
possess and practice a set of shared behaviors that we call the Five
Dynamics of Jazz. These five dynamics captured in the acronym APRIL are:
- Autonomy
- Passion
- Risk
- Innovation
- Listening
Through hands-on interaction and the compelling performance of a World Class Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Impact demonstrates:
- What skills are needed for improvisation
- How jazz musicians mitigate risk
- Why improvisation is critical
- How these principles relate to the interactive dynamics of your business
Michael Gold is the
founder and principal of Jazz Impact. Gold's extensive background in
music, academia and business has been essential in developing Jazz
Impact. He held various senior management positions in the real estate
and financial services industries, holds a Ph.D. in music and created
and ran Vassar College's first jazz program. He has spent nearly two
decades as a jazz bassist in New York having performed with such greats
as Lee Konitz, Al Cohn, Tal Farlow, Sheila Jordan, Jon Hendricks and
Warne Marsh.
Gold has lectured at the University Of Chicago Graduate School of
Business and is currently working on the development of arts-based
learning modules for The Executive MBA and Leadership Development
Programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He was recently selected as a Paul D. Fleck Fellow by The Banff Centre
for Leadership for his outstanding work in the field of Arts Based
Learning for Business.
Jazz Impact ensembles are comprised of the finest jazz musicians
working on the global jazz scene today. Musicians are drawn from New
York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. When performing in Europe
and Asia we engage musicians from Germany, Switzerland, and Holland.
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