Hi AACORN’ers
I would like to invite Michael Gold into
the AACORN community. I met him at Banff Centre some years ago where he
spontaneously joined a session with Margaret Wheatley on a seminar with our
LAICS (Leadership and innovation) executive Master students. It was a
wonderful experience, showing the power of
improvisation.
I was recently contacted by Michael who
was looking for people with similar interests. So I offered to introduce him
to AACORN.
Please receive him wellJ
Below is a short bio on
Michael:
Michael Gold is the principle of Jazz
Impact, an arts-based
organizational development consultancy founded in 1999. His work is based in
dual interests in the arts and business. He holds a
Ph.D. in jazz performance and created and ran Vassar College’s first jazz
program. He spent two decades as a jazz bassist in New York having performed
with such greats as Lee Konitz, Al Cohn, Tal Farlow, Sheila Jordan, and
Warne Marsh. His business experience includes senior management positions
held in both the real estate and financial services industries. Over the past decade has delivered seminars
and workshops using the jazz ensemble to build and stimulate teamwork,
leadership and innovation for businesses and organizations worldwide.
Gold is an ongoing lecturer for The
Executive MBA and Leadership Development Programs at the Kellogg School of
Management at Northwestern University where he uses the dynamics of jazz to
enhance executive leadership development and The University of Minnesota
School of Public Health where he works with online learning cohorts using
improvisation to build connectivity during their two year Master’s Degree
Program. He was The Paul D. Fleck Fellow for 2008 at The Banff Centre for
Leadership for his outstanding work in the field of Arts Based Learning for
Business. He currently lives in Minneapolis.
The Jazz Impact website is www.jazz-impact.com and he can be
reached at [log in to unmask]
Have a great summerJ
Lotte
Lotte
Darsø
Associate
Professor of Innovation
Department
of Education // Aarhus University (Copenhagen Campus)
Tuborgvej
164
DK - 2400
Copenhagen NV
mail:
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also: www.laics.net
Phone: +45
871 63756; Cell: +45 2632 0432
