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The Music
of Business
What business leaders can learn about collaboration, creativity, and performance under pressure from the mysterious world of jazz.
The Big Idea
What business leaders can learn about agility, collaboration, creativity, and performance under pressure from the mysterious world of jazz. Inject artistry and agility into your business.
Keynote Description
The mysterious and dangerous world of jazz is a cauldron of spontaneous creativity. And in times of radical change and uncertainty, it serves as the perfect model for modern leadership.
Professional jazz guitarist and prolific entrepreneur Josh Linkner connects the dots between jazz and business, helping to unlock the secrets of some of the world’s most creative geniuses. Using live jazz as a metaphor for collaborative innovation, this session is entertaining, inspiring, and directly applicable to the daily challenges we face in business.
A fusion of live musical performance and keynote presentation, the session’s finale includes audience members “joining the band” to compose and perform a song in real time to the delight of the audience. Cameras will flash as the entire group is dazzled by their colleagues' improvisation and spontaneous invention.
Outcomes & Experiences
Audience
This Keynote Serves Leaders & Teams Who Are:
- Looking for an elevated experience beyond a typical keynote.
- Craving deeper collaboration, creativity, and performance.
- Seeking a way to stand out from the pack and lead in a fresh, creative manner.
Outcomes
The Audience Will Leave With:
- The mindset and perspective of a jazz musician serving as a creative new model for business growth and results.
- A deeper understanding of collaborative creativity and specific tools to harness inventive thinking and artistic expression.
- A memorable and inspiring sense of what’s possible and how to push boundaries and barriers to achieve remarkable outcomes.
- The creative confidence to pursue our highest calling and never let the music inside us die.
Suggested Event Formats
While Josh carefully customizes this keynote for every event type, The Music of Business has proven to be highly effective in the following formats:
- Strategy kick-offs
- R&D meetings
- Sales kick-offs
- Client events
Josh Linkner delivers a roadmap to help future generations of entrepreneurs and innovators push boundaries and explore the art of the possible.
He provides a clear path to help you build an army of everyday innovators and turn ideas into action."
Steve Case
Co-Founder and Former CEO, AOL
Chairman, Revolution Partners
“Josh Linkner made a huge impact on our organization.
His message on creativity and innovation was spot-on and his work has had a lasting effect. His keynote was high-energy, interactive, and left us with specific tools and techniques to improve our creative output.”
Juergen Rochert
CEO, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Australia
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Frequently Asked Questions
About Josh
In addition to having delivered over 1,300 keynotes worldwide, Josh is the Chairman and co-founder of Platypus Labs, an innovation consulting firm, and the Managing Partner of Muditā Venture Partners, a venture capital firm investing in startups at the cutting edge of innovation. He's also the proud dad to four amazing kiddos.
Josh is a passionate advocate for the superpower already inside each of us - human creativity and ingenuity. He feels called to help individuals, leaders, and organizations unlock their dormant creative capacity and thrive through uncertainty and volatility.
YES! One of Josh's most requested keynotes is the Business of Music keynote. It's a memorable experience with a fusion of a live musical performance and keynote presentation. The finale includes audience members
"joining the band" to compose and perform a song in real-time to the audience's delight. Cameras will flash as the entire group is dazzled by their colleagues' improvisation and spontaneous invention.
About Josh's Keynotes
Absolutely! In fact, in the 1,300+ keynote he's delivered worldwide, Josh never given the same keynote twice. Through a proven framework of pre-event calls, stakeholder interviews, and AI & human-powered industry research, Josh handcrafts every keynote for every organization— no "canned" talks.
Yes! Josh has extensive experience in curating the content and the format of keynotes to meet his client's needs.
After every keynote, audience members often walk up to Josh to share they're inspired to tap into their creative and innovative potential. Through live and virtual solutions, Josh helps organizations translate this inspiration into transformative results.
- Facilitated leadership sessions/fireside chats with executive leaders.
- Customized interactive team leader workshops to introduce and practice innovation mindsets & techniques.
- Customized In-Person & Virtual Consulting Solutions to help organizations drive a culture of innovation.
Booking Josh
Josh is always available for discovery calls to explore fit and customized programming options. Nothing is more important to Josh than finding the best fit for your event— even if it means a different speaker.
Yes! Josh has extensive experience in curating the content and the format of keynotes to meet his client’s needs.
Josh lives & practices his message of finding a way. Regardless of lead time, please fill out the Book Josh Form, and he'll do his best to make it work or help you find another speaker who'll be a great fit for your event.