Michael Gold

Founder and Principal of Jazz Impact

Michael Gold Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$10,001 - $20,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
New York, Minnesota, USA

Michael Gold Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$10,001 - $20,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
New York, Minnesota, USA

Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

The Jazz Impact Experience

Good jazz and high performance business depend on creativity, agility, empathy and flexibility, and the similarities don’t end there: the business lessons of jazz focus on high performance teamwork, multitasking, cross-functional awareness, innovation, and responsiveness...

Good jazz and high performance business depend on creativity, agility, empathy and flexibility, and 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.

The Jazz Impact Experience will stimulate your company to create and imagine new possibilities, through a live, interactive experience. 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.

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Collaborative Innovation: A Technology for Creative Productivity in the Workplace

Balanced Growth: The Power of Incremental Innovation

Now's the Time for Leadership: Transforming Legacy Value & Leading in the Moment

Listening for Change: Connecting with the Flow of Market Change

The Improvisation of Business

Leading the Arc of Creative Strategy

The Art of Empathetic Communication

Leadership, Jazz, and the Art of Sustaining Innovation

About Keynote Speaker Michael Gold

Michael Gold is the founder and principal of Jazz Impact. Michael Gold is a compelling speaker and the founder of Jazz Impact, where he uses live jazz performance to foster deeper understanding of the dynamics that sustain life and the spark of creative energy in businesses and organizations.

His keynote programs are highly engaging and build capabilities in leadership, team dynamics, innovation, and appreciative inquiry for companies like: Accenture, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN, The Bush Foundation, Cargill, IBM, The Mayo Clinic, McGraw-? Hill, Credit Suisse, General Dynamics, General Mills, The Hay Group International, and Siemens, The United Nations, and many others.

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Michael played a key role in helping IBM executives understand how to use the concepts of jazz to their identity as a collaborative consulting entity. From 2007-?2013 he used a jazz a quartet to teach Aesthetic Intelligence for The Executive Education Program at the Kellogg School of Management’s Program. His jazz concept has been the capstone of The Mayo Clinic’s Fresh Eyes Leadership Development Programs since 2013. In 2008, he received The Paul D. Fleck Fellow Award from The Banff Centre for Creative Leadership for his outstanding work in the emerging field of Arts-?Based Learning for Business. It is fair to say that Michael Gold and Jazz Impact pioneered the use of jazz as a powerful tool for accelerating the positive transformation in organizations.

Michael holds a Ph.D. in music and is an accredited facilitator of Appreciative Inquiry. He is a world-?class jazz bassist who spent two decades in New York performing with such greats as Lee Konitz, Al Cohn, Tal Farlow, Sheila Jordan, Jon Hendricks, and Warne Marsh.

Testimonials

To say “thank you” for what you delivered to the Fresh Eyes Leadership Program seems woefully inadequate. More specifically, I am deeply appreciative of the value you brought to our new program. I am in awe of your talent and passion for the music. The amount of work, rehearsal and effort you invested in this program brings new definition to “going above and beyond.”

Grace Gorringe

Office of Leadership and Organization Development, Mayo Clinic

The music was phenomenal; the presentation was dead on and you received the only standing ovation the entire conference. Bravo!”

Chris Otto

Group IT Communications HSBC