Experience the Impact of Jazz on 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. In 1995, Gold received a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts to teach the skills of jazz improvisation to professional orchestral musicians, a first step towards forming Jazz Impact.
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. Gold is currently completing his first authored book detailing the work he has been conducting with Jazz Impact in keynotes and seminars nationally and internationally since 1999.
Gold received a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College, a Master’s of Arts in African American Studies from The New England Conservatory of Music, and a Ph.D. in Performance from the School of Education at New York University. He resides with his family in Minneapolis.
ROI/Tangible Program Benefits:
- Learn the skills are needed for improvisation
- Acknowledge the risks improvisers encounter
- Discover why improvisation is critical
- Understand how these principles relate to the interactive dynamics of your corporation
Testimonials/Client List:
Jazz Impact was a hit! You and your group did a terrific job at providing just the right balance, making your session educational, in terms of the relationship between jazz and our organization, and offering attendees something that was also entertaining and unique. I did not expect my CEO and CFO to stand up and participate in your interactive sessions; it was gratifying to see that they too enjoyed your program.-IMS Health
Michael, everyone is still talking about our Forum and your presentation!!!! My many thanks to you and your ensemble for a meaningful and insightful session. The group loved it! You really helped bring our theme together and your music and your message resonated with the group. It was a huge success.-Aetna Insurance
I want to thank you for bringing Jazz Impact to our Northwest Zone Managers Conference in April. I found the seminar to be an astounding combination of entertainment, learning and inspiration. It transformed our meeting into an experience that will resonate with our company for a long time.-Starbucks North America
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