The Orchestral Experience for Executives

Ever thought of your CEO as a conductor?

How would you define a successful leader?

What makes a high performance organisation work?

Sounds of Leadership is a unique corporate training workshop designed for Upper Management and C-Level Executives to explore how the lessons of orchestral performance can epitomise leadership and management principles.

Sit amongst a professional orchestra to realise the importance of collaboration, communication and innovation to achieve high performance results in a dynamic team.

This real-time analogy provides an inspiring and valuable experience from which participants can reassess their capabilities and personal leadership style.

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Professor Ian Woodward

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Sounds of Leadership is led by Professor Ian Woodward who is an Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Programme Director of the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD - The Business School for the World. Ian is also the Associate Conductor of the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra.

Before academia, he served as a chief executive, senior executive and board member of major public and private organisations, particularly in the energy utility and financial services sectors.

His musical background includes classical music broadcasting, record production and conducting of choirs and orchestras worldwide. He has created a series of special leadership and music sessions to bring classical music and contemporary business together in a way which is relevant for today's business climate. 

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Read more about Ian here.

A fully-professional orchestra at your fingertips

No other leadership experience is quite like the interactive involvement of working with a live orchestra. It is memorable. It is high performance.

Be captivated by the recognisable music of great orchestral composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart while examining the conductor's role and how musicians lead and collaborate within an orchestra as a precision-based team of professionals. The experience will allow business leaders to:

·       Sit within the orchestra, to discuss and interact directly with skilled musicians

·       Be selected to conduct the orchestra

·       Perform within a chorus, accompanied by the orchestra

In this way Sounds of Leadership introduces a dynamic vocabulary for discussing and developing three crucial dimensions of successful leadership:

·       Achieving High Performance, Results and Commitment

·       Leading for Collaboration and Engagement

·       Effective Leadership Communication 

Every Sounds of Leadership workshop is individually customised to achieve each organisation's specific training objectives.