Orchestra Experience

For their LEAP Summit 2024 in Dallas, Microsoft invited Dominic Alldis and Plano Symphony Orchestra to open the event for 700 delegates with a 90-minute immersive experience with a 50-piece orchestra. It explored musical leadership, collaboration and creativity, and the importance of trust, integrity and excellence.

“Your session was the absolute highlight of the week. Every person in my organisation understood their role in the “greater orchestra”.  It was the best metaphor for leadership I have experienced, and my teams felt the same. A huge thank you for your amazing presentation!...” 

Tracy Galloway, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft America

WPP has included the Orchestra Experience is a key component of their senior learning & development program since 2005. It has been delivered over 150 times in 40 global locations and explores the importance of active listening, diversity and inclusive leadership.

"After two intensive days of self-discovery and expanding their leadership mindset and skills, participants arrive at the orchestral interlude -- always, the program's crescendo. You bring to life what leadership embodies, inspiring our leaders to stretch to their fullest potential. Your insights about collaboration and trust resonate powerfully with our leaders in the context of their teams and the business. In their words, "transformative and empowering" - elevating their sense of purpose and a shared responsibility for the work and for their teams.  Simply magical..."   

Lynne Mueller, Director of Worldwide Training, WPP

Between 2007 and 2020 Columbia Business School in New York engaged Music & Management to provide The Orchestra Experience for their Advanced Management Program. Participants listened to the Chelsea Symphony play a classical symphony and engaged in an interactive discussion about leadership, teamwork and creativity within the workplace.

"A large part of the beauty of the Orchestra Experience is that it allows participants to really feel the difference that leaders can make. It is one thing to tell executives that they have to be a step ahead of those they lead, or that micromanaging strangles motivation and creativity. But it is immensely more powerful to show them, and indeed allow them to hear, the disappointing product of the reactive leader or the micromanager…"

Paul Ingram, Kravis Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

In May 2016 Kimberly-Clark Corporation invited Music & Management to provide The Orchestra Experience to 650 of their senior executives in Dallas, Texas. The delegates heard The Plano Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven’s First symphony and a keynote about musical leadership, cooperation and performance.

"Dominic Alldis's command of his profession rivals that of any senior business leader. His ability to connect key business principles like trust, respect, and execution was brought to life through the Orchestra Expeirence. Respectfully, one of the most unique and enjoyable presentations your team will ever witness and be sure to remember..." 

John K Millis, Vice President, Kimberly Clark Corporation