Testimonials

The jazz metaphor really works. It aligned strongly with our three day working session in Paris, touching on relevant topics for our marketing organization. Your workshop also challenged our thinking on how we collaborate as a team of professionals from across Europe. At the same time you demonstrated remarkable knowledge of marketing and organizational strategies. The combination of live music, business examples and practical training is a surprising combination. I can recommend  Jazz in Business to anyone. Todd Wheatland - Director - Marketing, EMEA - Kelly Services

I have gained more interest in jazz music and I also see how I can apply insights from jazz to the business context.
Arie Heerschap - segment manager private clients, Van Lanschot Bankiers

The jazz workshop provides the opportunity to discuss current trends and developments in business in a 'musical' way. Sietse Overbeek - PhD student, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

I think the explicit focus on tensions between standards en creativitity provides space for learning and errors. Jonnet Galle - oprichter en trainer, Lifetune

The Jazzinbusiness workshop at the Henley Knowledge Management Forum on the 11th June was a great success. It exceeded my expectations in terms of effectively using the metaphor of jazz to explore some real and practical KM and business issues. We expected this workshop to be enjoyable (which it was) and hoped it would also be useful. The KM Forum members confirmed that this was definitely the case with reflections about the insights that had been generated continuing in our online discussion areas for some weeks afterward. Christine van Winkelen - director - Henley Knowledge Management Forum

De combinatie van verantwoordelijkheid, vrijheid, professioneel gedrag, gevoel, passie en persoonlijke inbreng zou in 'werk' net zoals in de jazz terug te vinden moeten zijn. Derk Remmelink - innovatiemanager, DA drogisterijen

I like it that managers and musicians start a dialogue about how they deal with events and how they discover that doing business actually is an art. That's what I found most valuable personally. Marco Mossinkoff - docent, World Fashion Institute Amsterdam

For the communication curriculum at our University for Professional Education in The Hague the 'Jazz in Business Experience' was a wonderful finish. Based on situations you could run into as a comunication specialist, the workshop provided us with ways to think about the role of people in the organization. Especially how improvisation works through in your practice as a subject matter expert was clear. Ranging from theoretical, abstract to very pragmatic and practivcal. Supported by the musical examples, the workshop provided us with a great view on what we could do with the knowledge and skills, gained in the program. Quirijn Menken - docent opleiding Communicatie,  Haagse Hogeschool