Senior Executive Roundtables & Leadership Lectures
About Our Next Roundtable
Jazz & the Art of Leadership: Using the Tools of Improvisation to Lead in Unscripted Moments
April 1, 2016 – 1:30 pm to 5 pm
How do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work? Here’s what the world’s best leaders do: they improvise.
Improvisation in business is not so different from a jazz musician, who produces a new tune on the fly, drawing from experience and context, collaborating with fellow musicians to draw out the most interesting notes and turning mistakes into part of the music.
We’ll turn our attention to
Jazz and the Art of Leadership at our next Senior Executive
Roundtable, to develop the tools of improvisation and experimentation.
At the piano and the podium will be organizational leadership guru Dr. Frank Barrett, also an accomplished jazz pianist who toured the globe with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
Together, we’ll develop our ability to improvise through:
- Learning to identify and say yes to the best of what exists
- Embracing errors as a source of learning
- Balancing freedom and constraint
- Taking turns soloing and supporting
- Strategically experimenting to produce innovative results
Walk away better equipped to lead in unscripted moments and to collaborate with your team. Take home leadership lessons from the geniuses of jazz.
Friday, April 1, 2016 | 1:30 to 5 pm
Benedictine University | Lisle, IL
$175/pp – discounts available for groups
Barrett is a globally
recognized management expert and the author of Yes
to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz, published by
Harvard Business Review Press. He is Professor of Management and Global Public
Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and holds a
Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.
Special Offer for Prospective Doctoral Students
On the morning of April 1, before the Roundtable, we will host our first on-campus open house for prospective students of the Ph.D./D.B.A. Program in Values-Driven Leadership. Visit www.cvdl.org/openhouse to register, and to receive a discount code for Roundtable registration.
About the Senior Executive Roundtables
The Senior Executive Roundtables are an ongoing series designed to inform and inspire senior executives who are committed to leading at the intersection of ethics, sustainability and business results.
These invitation-only events are for senior executives – Presidents, CEOs, C-level Executives, and others – who are committed to strategic, values-driven leadership. They are ‘roll-up your sleeves’ learning experiences that utilize a dynamic mix of presentation and interaction, giving you and your senior team a new perspective on the leadership and direction of your company.
Upcoming Dates
- November 11, 2016 – speaker to be announced in 2016
- March 31, 2017 – speaker to be announced in 2016
Previous Events
Find a photo gallery of our most recent event at this link.
For more information contact Amber Johnson at amberjohnson@ben.edu.
