Dinner Presentation (with option of live musicians)

During a dinner presentation, courses are interspersed with musical interludes illustrating two very different musical cultures: classical and jazz.

Following the first course, Dominic Alldis discusses the role of the orchestral conductor or ‘maestro’ and shows film footage of an orchestra in performance. He explains how the conductor builds trust, provides vision and creates a framework for exceptional performance.

After the second course, Dominic introduces the contrasting world of jazz. Showing film clips or bringing on stage a live jazz band, he explains how jazz musicians innovate within minimal structures, embrace errors as a source of learning, alternate between leading and supporting roles, rotate leadership responsibilities and build on each other’s ideas in performance.

The evening concludes with a group interactive activity using percussion instruments.

Case Study
LOUIS VUITTON MOËT HENNESSEY asked Dominic to prepare a series of dinner presentations about music for senior managers, to take place during dinner in luxury hotels in London & Paris.

Testimonial
"By using the conductor of an orchestra as a metaphor for leadership of an organization, Dominic Alldis delivers a brilliant elaboration on the notion of "organized chaos", an oxymoron shared by both the business and the musical world. Indeed, these two fields need the right balance of rationality and imagination. In addition, Dominic provides a superb illustration of this concept by reconciling structure and creativity in the elegant pieces of jazz music he performs during his presentation."
Concetta Lanciaux, Vice President of Organisational Development, LVMH