When:
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Where:
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis North
2200 Freeway Blvd.
Brooklyn Center, MN 55441
763-566-8000
To Register: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=224619
Or leave a voicemail at 651-779-9820 following the instructions. Please make sure that your member number is provided so you get charged member rates. Guests are welcome!
Registration closes Friday, December 9th at noon! Due to the interactive nature of this program, seating is limited to the first 60 registrations.
**IMPORTANT** Note: Please register before deadline to avoid a late fee and guarantee a meal. Only personal checks or cash will be accepted at the time of registration.
Cost
- $35 Members/ $40 Non-Members **Note the increased cost of this program
- Late Registration/Walk-Ins: Add $5
- Due to the nature of this program, the ‘No Meal’ option has been suspended for this meeting only
Agenda
5:00 P.M. Registration & Networking
5:45 P.M. Welcome & Announcements
6:00 P.M. Connectivity & Innovation through the Experience of Jazz
7:00 P.M. Dinner
8:00 P.M. Networking to the sounds of Jazz Impact
Connectivity and Innovation Through Jazz
Who would have thought that two seemingly disparate worlds—the world of Jazz and the business world—would have so much in common? The elements that create a successful jazz quartet are the same components critical for sustaining a highly effective business team.
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
About Jazz Impact
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.
Learn more about the musicians of Jazz Impact.
Meeting Location & Directions
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis North
2200 Freeway Blvd.
Brooklyn Center, MN 55441
763-566-8000
From the North:
Head south on MN-252. Turn right on N Humboldt Ave. Turn right at Freeway Blvd.
From the South:
Head north on I-35W. Exit 16A west toward downtown/I-94W. Take ramp onto I-94W. Exit 34 for Shingle Creek Parkway N. Turn left on Shingle Creek Parkway. Turn left at Freeway Blvd.
From the East:
Go east on I-694/I-94. Take exit 34 toward MN-100. Merge onto Shingle Creek Blvd. Turn left on Freeway Blvd.
From the West:
Go west on I-694. Take exit 34 for Shingle Creek Blvd N. Turn left at Shingle Creek Blvd. Turn left at Freeway Blvd.