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A Selection of Testimonials from Previous Clients:"Time and time again, an absolute highlight of our leadership development program is the interlude session with you, Dominic. The chance to sit among an orchestra, to experience the interplay, the connection, the artistry of the musicians is an inspiring and unforgettable experience. Even more powerful are the business insights our leaders gather during the session. Through your delicate facilitation and wonderfully eloquent commentary as maestro, our leaders gain new insights into the power of the podium, the impact of their leadership and importance of truly listening. Quite literally Dominic, you are helping us transform leadership here at eBay." Beth Axelrod "Learning about leadership through music is one of the most creative learning experiences I have ever had. The combination of beautiful music and Dominic's excellent ability in translating the orchestra's experience into everyday business leadership experiences is a unique and powerful opportunity for anyone who participates. I have been privileged to be a past participant but I feel equally privileged to bring this to my colleagues at Morgan Stanley. It is a beautiful, moving and educational experience. Bravo!.." Ellen Shedlarz "We were delighted with the very special "Intermezzo" you provided for our executive development program, Maestro: Orchestrating Client Value. Your session had just the impact we wanted, using music as a metaphor to demonstrate key leadership principles. Your creative use of Juilliard students with whom you had no previous history had an added benefit: their fresh talent was truly inspirational and you were able to demonstrate how leaders establish credibility through a shared language and respect for each other's capabilities. An excellent demonstration of the power of effective communications! Your session was amongst the highest rated aspects of our program…" Elaine Holland "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 “Excellent! The theme of music appealed to everyone. Dominic’s presentation was very thought-provoking and relevant at both a personal and organizational level. He was engaging and interactive with the audience and I would recommend his presentation to any organisation…” Liam Keys “Thank you once again for conveying to our group the powerful music/business metaphor. After two days of exploring the theories of leadership, you made it all come together in our Wednesday "interlude." That night at our group dinner, participants couldn't stop talking about the transformative experience you led them through. It was the highlight of their week! Your insight about business organizations was exactly right: we talk a lot. We often talk past each other. One of the great revelations about the orchestra experience is that musicians must listen as well as they play or the performance suffers. This is a leadership lesson that was not lost on anyone attending your session…” Rick Zwern "An important part of the Leadership Development Centre was to stretch our managers' thinking about leadership using music as a metaphor. An important result was that our managers began to shift their mindset, seeing leadership through a jazz lens, as improvisation, collaboration and flexibility, not just through a traditional orchestral lens, as "conducting" a team..." Mark Jenner "It is thanks to Dominic's powerful, yet simple, messages around being 'in tune' with each other while performing that I was able to be crystal clear about my management expectations for my top 50 executives: As Miles Davis said "don't play what you know, play what you hear..." Alfonso Di Ianni "We engaged Dominic Alldis as keynote speaker at one of the company’s Senior Leadership meeting. More than 300 of Booz Allen’s senior leaders from across the United States attended to learn new and innovative ways to collaborate within teams and across the organization. Dominic used music as the metaphor to demonstrate leadership, creativity, innovation, teamwork, collaboration, and improvisation—all key tenets to running a successful organization. Dominic’s presentation and insights made the meeting one of the most successful senior meetings the company has had—we highly recommend Dominic as a speaker for any organization interested in achieving its potential…" Patricia Kennedy ""Dominic Alldis spoke at a plenary session of our 2008 Conference in Cambridge. Dominic used music to inspire over 100 attendees drawn from all parts of the globe on how the high-level skills of players can be managed. There are valuable lessons to be learned and I, for one, will henceforth view conductors of orchestras in a new light..." Meredith Belbin “Dominic's music metaphor has proven to be really effective with our managers; he was just the right person at the right time and has this rare talent to obtain emotional engagement and let the audience discover simple things they will never forget. Highly recommended!” Benedikt Benenati “On behalf of UFl, we would like to thank you very much for the remarkable lecture you displayed during the 74th UFI Congress held last week in Versailles. This event was greatly appreciated by the participants, not only because of its atmosphere and networking opportunities, but also because of its content, for which you played a key and very important role. The entire UFI Team involved in the congress preparation and organization, as well as the congress moderator, join us to share this success with you, as you were among those who made it possible. Thank you again!" Vincent Gérard “We had the pleasure of having Dominic Alldis as part of the executive training programs for Young & Rubicam Brands. He carefully tailored his session to the profile of the group and the objectives of the program, while making sure that the music metaphor "sang out" to the group. With an orchestra or a jazz quintet, he left our leaders with an indelible memory that enhanced their learning experience...” Celia Berk "The time spent with you had an immense impact on all attending and provided us with new concepts, that the universal language of music evokes with simplicity and clarity. Your piano performances giving examples of terms such as dynamics, timing, listening, communication, tone, rhythm and many other fundamental aspects, not only brought home the point of how essential these are to music, but also showed how they touch our everyday professional and personal lives..." Brigitte Galut “From the various comments received so far from our participants, it seems that the Summer Academy was very well appreciated… From my colleagues at the CBA, I'd like to express my heartfelt thanks for having made our first attempt a wonderful success...” Mahan Amarnath “An eye opening experience and a very well structured presentation… Dominic and the string quartet brought us a very refreshing definition of how to perform in a team… An inspiring session and definitely a highlight of the course… Excellent, a fantastic night, the comparisons to music and leadership were relevant, but most importantly the night was fun… It was surprising how well he was able to relate to leadership in business… One of the highlights of the week… A very good experience, we learned how to trust and to lead while keeping the harmony… It was an eye opener, he excelled at getting to the point and highlighting what we have in common…” Feedback from buyers worldwide "Thank you for a most inspiring presentation at our Business Partner Conference earlier this week. The delegates appreciated the comparison between the world of music and the world of business... I am certain that your presentation will prove to be a lasting influence on our conference guests..." Chris Harris “I have to thank you and your colleagues again for an exquisite performance on Tuesday Evening. It was an remarkable event and you were able to open up for the Bishops many new aspects of understanding and overall appreciation of the importance of music, performance, delivery and enjoyment. Yesterday we spend the day with the group in Avilla, and I received so many positive comments and reflections from the group, about your participation, which was stunning. The Cardinal in particular sends his best wishes and wants to thank you, for what you were able to do for his conference. I am sure he will be in touch with you in due course…” Stephen Brenninkmeijer “Dominic connected music creation with business challenges and it helped re-enforce important messages about teamwork and leadership. The musical performances were remarkably good, given the short time and lack of talent, it has given us a motive to talk further about how we work together, and most of all it provided a common language regardless of ability or experience, prompting us to think about listening more. It gave me great confidence in our business challenges going forward…” David Linthwaite "Could not believe how relevant and aligned music was with business… Absolutely wonderful!! It was an unforgettable hour… I will not listen to classical music again in the same way... Fantastic… Outstanding session... Amazing connections to the corporate world. I will not think of an orchestra/band in the same way I had before… Also I don't plan to quit my day job!!! Superb! Never realized how much being a conductor of our orchestra so well relates to leadership and organization... Wow, what an amazing experience... Thank you... The best!! Outstanding! Many lessons to take back... Wish it could have lasted all day! The Senior Executive Program “It was great seeing you again. You did a terrific job and your presentation/training was much appreciated by the participants...” Christie Deydier “The music and management presentation by you was stimulating, thought provoking and very worthwhile. It gave our management team an interesting new framework for looking at management issues...” Andrew Kemble “Thanks very much indeed for your help with our Workshop in South Africa. Your input at the start of the event proved really effective in getting people to gel, to open up and, probably most importantly, to broaden thinking. If you are available, I would like to utilise your skills at our future workshops for our UK and US streams. Once again, thank you very much indeed for your help...” Greg Hunt "I've been very pleased to work with you on the management training program and hope to have new opportunities to ask you for incentive programs. I keep preciously your number, address…" Xavier Molinie "Many thanks for your session last week, it was a resounding success. I think what I most admired was the elegance with which you managed the session - you were gentle but firm with your facilitation - you allowed the guys to interact and challenge but never let us get carried away, always bringing us back to the material and keeping it skilfully on course. You clearly had a skill that was admired by the group - that and your background gave you an instant credibility. You then showed that you are also a professional facilitator, and you had the sense of 'theatre' that is so important..." Gareth Chick "We really found your session very useful and fun. It was tremendously interesting seeing the parallels between the music world and industry thinking especially in relation to working in teams etc. I would strongly recommend your approach as a breath of fresh air to management training…" Jonathan Kendall “Thank you very much for your inspiring presentation earlier this week. I had never thought that learning about music could improve my business performance. The most amazing thing was the "blind" music session which did not end in complete chaos, but proved that people were listening to each other and reacted in their music..." Leen Noordermeer “Dominic, I want you to know that I only heard wonderful feedback about you and the orchestra this week. People loved the fact that the orchestra members spoke up as forcefully and openly as they did. Warm congratulations!..” William F Draper “Thanks very much for your input at the conference, it was great working with you and I hope we get the opportunity to work together again in the future…” Jennifer Driscoll "I thought I would write and say how much I was inspired by Dominic Alldis' presentation at Harewood House. The talk was rich in metaphors and examples and had everyone glued to their seats. Every example given was relevant and there was never a dull moment. This really is the best type of 'management development' - interactive, pertinent, thought provoking and entertaining. I can say it was quite the best professional development event I have attended in many years. Well done and thank you…" Marcus Hill “Thank you for giving us such an inspiring talk about music and management and for your marvellous demonstration of improvisation at the piano. We very much enjoyed your expertise and hope that we may be able to work together again in the near future. Hope to see you again soon at Henley...” Maureen George "Thank you very much for the excellent presentation you did for us earlier this month. Personally I found the session thought-provoking and very enjoyable, and feedback from my colleagues here has been excellent. Everyone loved the jazz! I hope there are opportunities for us to work together again in the future..." Stuart Strachan "Just a short note to thank you very much for your entertaining contribution to our Forum on Friday evening. Everybody I spoke to very much enjoyed hearing some of the musician's trade secrets, and we enjoyed the music too..." Philip Dilley “I found your presentation very interesting. I fell that music has a great deal to add to discussions on management. The idea of using a 'drum group' to provide a management training exercise was particularly interesting. The concept of the conductor as a leader to show how a good leader can make a tremendous difference in any management situation was also very valuable. In many ways musical groups and and businesses are both groups of people that demonstrate all the variety of human behaviour. Thank you for sparking off so many ideas...” John Dempster "Everyone found the experience very valuable and extremely enjoyable. Amongst other things the use of 'music' as a metaphor enabled us to discuss emotive issues in a way which helped us all to look at our organisations in a new light. Your passion for music gave us the impetus to embrace the metaphor and gain new insight into the way we work as managers…" Colin Davies "Dominic Alldis' seminar took us into arenas of the mind that we were visiting for the first time, leaving us asking questions we had not thought of before - this discovery through music was the benchmark of creativity and innovation for us all..." Robin Lent |
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