In turbulent and trying times, inspiring innovative leadership that creates engaged effective teams is the key initiative for you and those you serve. Getting genuinely REAL about relationships and results is the only thing that will enable your organization to weather its storms, meet its challenges, and achieve its full potential.

Brian Fraser and Jazzthink provoke brilliant leadership that creates productive communities. Using the wisdom and workings of jazz to accelerate your awareness and implementation of the essential qualities of great leadership and teamwork, Brian guides you through a process of discovery, design, doing, and delight that increases your organization's health and impact.

INSPIRING

"... great fun, provocative, and inspiring. They got us thinking in a whole new way about the education and training work we do."

Randy Galuzzi
Toyota University
Toronto, ON

INNOVATIVE

"It inspired me to think differently. Some great ideas. Great evening, Brian. I really enjoyed it."

Marlene Norris
Canadian Blood Services
Vancouver, BC

EFFECTIVE

"Great questions and new ways to think about things. It helped me come up with practical ways to address current leadership challenges."

Jade Kuiters
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Vancouver, BC

What can Jazzthink do for you?

We can dramatically improve the positive impact of your leadership and teamwork.

Timid leadership and toxic teamwork rob organizations of their potential. Courageous leadership provokes healthy teamwork. Great leadership weaves together personal integrity, shared vision, and social acumen into relationships that sustain exceptional performance.

Leadership emerges through a network of positive influential relationships carefully aligned to enable everyone to contribute their best to teams that make the world a healthier home. Leadership and teamwork is REAL when people respect each other, empathize with each other, appreciate each other, and laugh with each other. Those qualities of leadership and teamwork, participants in our Jazzthink gigs have told us, are the essentials in weathering your storms, meeting your challenges, and achieving your full potential.

The instrument you use most frequently in leadership and team building is the human voice. Leaders initiate conversations that motivate and mobilize the team's performance. It's the same dynamic in organizations and in jazz.

At Jazzthink, pianist Monty Alexander's words of wisdom have inspired and guided us as our work has evolved:

Jazz, at its best, is a situation in which participants willingly support each other, working together as one, each player bringing virtuosity, optimism, mutual respect, good will, and the desire to make it feel good.

Jazzthink can help you create that kind of culture in your organization.

Book

A great jazz performance provides a provocative model for personal growth and development. Find out how in Dr. Fraser's first Jazzthink book, Jazzthink: Playing with Stuff of Success.

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Video

Getting REAL about your leadership and teamwork in conversation with jazz is a powerful stimulus to creating deeply satisfying organizational and personal success. And there is something special about learning to the swing of great jazz that brings out the best in everyone.

Listen to a sampler of a Jazzthink keynote on teamwork (24.4MB)