Testimonials

Thank you so much for coming to our summit and delivering the Orchestra Experience. It was amazing and the teams are still talking about it!

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!...

Thanks for what you shared with the team. It did have a real impact and helped land some of the key themes we have been working on as a team…

It was fantastic to have you join us for the session earlier in the week. Your perspective on leadership and business landed beautifully with the group and was one of the highlights of the two-day workshop. I’ve received a lot of very encouraging feedback, and I am glad we could collaborate...

It has been truly a delight to have this experience with you Dominic. Thank you…

I want to personally thank you for the experience last night. You have such a wonderful skill to bring people along and help them see the world in a different light. It was amazing, Life changing for some! Thanks again and looking forward to continuing working together…

You and your orchestra were stellar and a highlight in a day packed with highlights. The audience of senior business leaders may have thought that they had seen it all before but they definitely hadn’t seen anything as compelling and they loved it. A virtuoso experience...

It was a fascinating session with standing ovations for Dominic and the musicians. Thank you for bringing this amazing event to our attention...

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…

What a truly well thought, brilliantly planned and wonderfully executed event. Initiatives such as this, which accurately capture the investment the organisation makes in its employees, make one feel truly privileged and special…

A large part of the beauty of the experience the orchestra 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.  It also matters that the leadership lessons are offered in the context of the gorgeous music, and the gracious facilitation.  It is a session that brings out the best in everyone, as both leaders and learners...

We included the Orchestra Experience in our senior management conference and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. The impact on our most senior leadership was profound, and sitting within the orchestra allowed our leaders to truly experience the impact of effective management. Many participants stated that they will remember this experience vividly for years…

Dominic Alldis conducted a magical event for Jardines Learn Fest’22. It taught us about “orchestrating inclusion” within our group of companies. The Virtual Orchestra Experience brilliantly demonstrates how diversity can become harmony…

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...

Learning about leadership through music is one of the most creative learning experiences I have ever had. The combination of beautiful music and Dominic Alldis'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!..."

Profound insights into innovation through live performance and discussion. Moreover, the jazz vision is dead right for today’s organizations... compelling, engaging and applicable to any creative business...

I want to thank you immensely for delivering such a remarkable and beautiful experience to the learning & development team at Google during our annual summit. Over the past 24 hours I have been approached by many of my colleagues telling me of how inspired, thrilled and just plain joyful they were in having experienced the music metaphor. Some have also said that it was the best learning experience they had ever had at Google or anywhere, period. That is high praise from a high performing teaming of learning professionals at one of the worlds most successful and admired companies! You have our deep appreciation for creating such a moving and enriching experience for us. May you continue to make beautiful music and share it with the world!...

Dominic Alldis was the motivational highlight at our European Consulting Conference with about 900 participants in Madrid this year.  His message conveyed the importance both as a conductor and as a manager, using soft skills to reach common success.  His performance was elegant and he showed sheer mastery in creating the music very slowly and thereby building up the tension more effectively. With his work as a musician he demonstrated highest professionalism and excellence.  In fact Mr. Alldis received a standing ovation for his performance. Moreover it was exceptionally pleasant to work with Mr. Alldis. I would highly recommend him for similar events...

The musical evening by Music & Management is a real magical event.  The beauty of it is how we learn the power of storytelling, how to put together a team of stars and with a few hints generate real teamwork, how to allow teams to alternate leadership at different moments, how to listen for the clues given to you by other team members.  All of this is done in a very professional way.  Dominic Alldis is not only a talented musician, but his empathy and connection to the audience allowed us to learn lessons from a very different professional field.  Feedback from the attendees was simply spectacular and it was an evening nobody will forget.  It is a privilege to be associated with you Dominic and we hope to continue working together in the years to come...

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 his Music and Management performance. Respectfully, one of the most unique and enjoyable keynote speaker presentations your team will ever witness and be sure to remember…

Thank you very much for your impressive performance at our management meeting in Berlin. It was a pleasure to listen to you and the fantastic musicians performing classical music and jazz. Besides the excellent musical performance, you gave us a very lively example of the importance of the right attitude and management skills to deliver outstanding results in your professional area. And this is what we and our managers took home as a learning: a common, clearly defined attitude and excellent management skills are a key factor for success also in our business...

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…

Excellent... the theme of music appealed to everyone.  It was very thought-provoking and relevant at both a personal and organizational level.  Dominic Alldis was engaging and interacted with the audience, I would recommend his presentation to any organisation...

The orchestral metaphor is an extremely powerful way to convey leadership messages. I thought the session was really inspiring...

The presentation by Dominic Alldis really engaged our staff from both the UK and France, and brought management issues to life in a unique and entertaining way…

I would like to thank you for the excellent talk you gave on Friday during our Executive Team meeting in Istanbul.  Your presentation was very inspiring and appreciated by all your audience.  Your metaphors and the bridge you described between leadership and conducting an orchestra illustrated well the challenges that we are face in our different functions.  This was a great learning experience for all participants...

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...

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...

The 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!..

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...

An eye opening experience and a very well structured presentation…  Dominic Alldis 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...

What a refreshing, practical way to demystify effective leadership. Simple, entertaining and drawn from the familiar experience of music, yet powerful and profound. A true learning experience for me in a very long time...

You did a terrific job and your presentation and training session was much appreciated by the participants. I hope you enjoyed your weekend in Marseilles...

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...

Music & Management used a musical vocabulary to make his points about collaboration, leadership and creativity that was totally on target and relevant for our business clients and attorneys at our firm. Our clients gave up many wonderful comments and were very appreciative of being invited to our event…

Music & Management creates magic through a thought-provoking, instructive and fun presentation. They worked with leaders from Sandoz and used music as a metaphor for leadership and team effectiveness.  Their methods are novel, interactive and applicable. Highly recommended...

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 to each and every one of you for having made our first program a wonderful success...

Just a short note to thank you very much for your entertaining contribution to our Forum. Everybody I spoke to very much enjoyed hearing the musician's trade secrets, and we enjoyed the music too…

I have to thank you and your colleagues again for an exquisite performance.  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. 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…

Thank you so much for your contribution to the conference last Friday.  Everyone really valued your input last week– the evaluations of your session were universally positive and you gave people plenty to think about.  What you did fitted perfectly with what we had been focusing on earlier in the day…

Music & Management inspired us all with an experience that helped the whole organization think about leadership and collaboration in new ways and put us on the road to behavior change — which is always the hardest part of the equation...

It was so magical to have you at the conference. Everyone is still raving about it. You have a gift and it’s wonderful that you share it! Thanks again...

Thank you for an enlightening performance. You have brought The Guru Series to new heights!..

Music & Management used music to beautifully illustrate their key messages – and it really made the event feel special...

Thank you Dominic.  You really made a difference to our conference in Budapest…

Thank you again for your fascinating keynote speech!  We hope to see you again very soon…

Thanks for being so wonderful onboard ship, you were fantastic and I am eternally gratefully...

I want to convey my thanks for what was a truly memorable event.  Your talk was such a positive and uplifting experience.  What worked so well was how you engaged and interacted with the audience throughout your presentation.  A hard balancing act that you achieved with enviable ease and absolute charm.  Thank you…”

Thank you for a very successful and enjoyable event for the finance team of EIB.  Everybody seems to have liked the evening.  I got much positive, even enthusiastic feedback, absolutely unheard of… not a single disgruntled remark!

The Music & Management presentation was stimulating, thought provoking and very worthwhile.  It gave our management team an interesting new framework for looking at management issues...

I want to thank you warmly for your great intervention this afternoon. It was a pleasure to have you among us and throughout the reception we heard Humanitarian Coordinators and our own senior leadership praising the session and your gentle and compelling approach to bringing them to reflect on leadership. And of course we all enjoyed the music!…

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...      

Thank you so much for creating a fantastic prelude for our Global Lab Experts Meeting. The performance was spectacular, and thus all attendees were extremely motivated and inspired. We could not have imagined a more beautiful start of our event. Dominic Alldis succeeded in conveying the key message of the meeting with his awesome Musical Interludes. With the exceptional mix of classical and jazz parts, he together with his co-musicians set the right spirit for the meeting. He got involved with our meeting, and related needs, so basing on our input he created a tailored setting for our experts. The event was unique, outstanding, and inspirational…

The event was a big success – thank you once again...

Thank you so much again for the session you ran for us - it went down fantastically well, as I knew it would…

I and others were blown away with your performance.  You were the finale that pulled all the content from the day together into a moving, touching performance…

It was such a pleasure to work with you on the Leadership Forum. The reaction was that you and the orchestra piece were absolutely exceptional. Congratulations. I look forward to the next opportunity to work together…

Conductor and jazz musician Dominic Alldis spoke at a plenary session of our Conference in Cambridge. He 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...

Conductor and jazz musician Dominic Alldis’s presentation and insights made the meeting one of the most successful senior meetings the company has had. We highly recommend him as a speaker for any organization interested in achieving its potential…

Your session reminded us that to pursue true excellence amid the fast-paced business and societal pressures around us, we must embrace the often neglected virtues of listening and patience...

Conductor and jazz musician Dominic Alldis delivered a brilliant session for a group of 150 international executives from Coca-Cola. He spoke about collaboration, innovation and responding to change, and then played with a jazz band to bring these concepts to life. The delegates were delighted and inspired by the session...

Let me tell you that you and your musicians had a terrific impact on our audience and they were more than inspired, also re-energised by your performance

Music & Management 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…

The presentation by Dominic Alldis was rich in metaphors and the examples given were relevant, 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…

I could not believe how relevant and aligned music was with business… Absolutely wonderful, an unforgettable hour… I will not listen to classical music again in the same way...  An outstanding session...  Amazing connections to the corporate world…  I never realized how being a conductor of our orchestra could relate so well to leadership and organizations...  Many lessons to take back...  I wish it could have lasted all day...

I just wanted to reach out to you personally to thank you once again for the excellent Keynote Speech you gave during our recent EMEA meeting in Frankfurt. In the days following on from the event, many people stated how much they had enjoyed your session and how they had been able to relate to it and learn from it. Music speaks to all…

It was wonderfully inspiring and will linger long in the memory. Thank you for spending time with the team and with our clients…

Dominic Alldis’s innovative approach helped to reinforce the critical importance of clear communication and engagement and teamwork when trying to lead high performance teams. I would recommend him to any organisation that is trying to reinforce these principals to clients and colleagues...

We enjoyed a magic moment suspended in the air of time. Dominic Alldis has the power to illustrate collective and individual management practices through the art of music...

I want to thank you warmly for the truly memorable "lesson" you taught us in Berlin. So many of my colleagues came to me afterwards to say how much they had liked your session. Our CEO was also very positive and made reference to you again in his closing remarks. It was a great pleasure and honour to have you with us...

"Very different – very sensible – super engaging, the feedback from colleagues was great. Living up to the expectation and giving a different perspective. It was great to have Dominic with us...”

We were all so surprised and grateful for such a fantastic event and really impressed by the fluidity of the online experience. I personally felt the emotions were real despite there being a screen between us and the orchestra. So, a big thank you again to you and your orchestra for such an excellent performance…

I want to thank you for an incredible experience. The entire team loved it and couldn’t stop talking about it. Hopefully we’ll be able to work together again in the future in a live setting...

I want to thank you again for the great time we spent with you last week. We have received incredibly positive feedback from so many BCGers around the world. And those smiles on the screens during the session, priceless! The balance between the music played and the learnings was fantastic - it was a great honor to have you as our guest speaker!..

Thank you for the wonderful event on Tuesday night - I thought it was spot on. We have had lots of positive feedback about the quality of the music and the insights people were able to take away. The band were great too and I loved that they also got into the conversation…

The Virtual Orchestra Experience was wonderful. The participants were especially impressed with how engaging you were in your delivery. This was truly a memorable event for our team…

Thank you again for all your help in making our leadership offsite a success. Our people are still talking about the Orchestra Experience. It was an absolute pleasure working with you...

Thank you for this valuable and inspiring experience. The participants were deeply impressed and have taken away many impulses for their work…

Our group and I personally enjoyed your keynote a lot! It was a good conversation and a pleasure to hear your experiences and view on things. Hopefully we will keep in touch and collaborate again…

We have had lots of great feedback this morning on the dinner and music. Thank you for sharing your insights, passion and talent with our clients...

Thank you so much for the incredible job you did at the Radius Health All Employee Meeting in Boston. The session was incredible and very well received by all. Truly an outstanding and memorable experience!

Sitting among the orchestra and listening to great music has a great “wow” effect, as well as providing good advice on management and teamwork. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge with us!

Dominic Alldis and Paris Virtuosi did a brilliant job at the first SAP Innovation Forum. They opened the main event with an inspiring session describing the parallel between conducting an orchestra and a company or a team. Dominic's secret skill is that he makes us believe this is so easy, but I know the years of dedication and hard work needed to reach the level of Excellence where he is now. This was a very uplifting experience, leaving us with an envy to learn more…

The experience was memorable and stimulating. This is something I really appreciate as a learning leader because these emotions help the learning stick. It was a pleasure working with you and would be happy to do so again!

Thank you for a truly memorable session that brought a breath-taking end to our Leadership Summit. I have led many events/summits in my marketing career, and I must say I have never experienced such an immersive and unique experience, connecting two different worlds through similar attributes. Your linkage of music to our leadership behaviours was truly amazing. Know that everyone that I talked to after the event was memorized by your session…

Thank you for your fantastic and inspirational talk and musical performance. Our participants highly enjoyed their time with you, and hopefully will take several valuable leadership and teamwork lessons back home with them…

A huge thank you to you and your musicians for helping to bring our people together. You could tell it definitely lifted the energy in the room after a long afternoon and feedback on the event as a whole has been phenomenal…

Thank you for a great session at the Vortex! The group really enjoyed it and made some good connections to collaboration at McDonald’s…

I want to thank you for a very successful virtual keynote. The messages that you addressed in your analogies were very relevant and reflected the core aspects of our discussions extremely well…

It was wonderful to meet you in Barcelona a few weeks ago. To echo the feedback we heard from all that attended, this was truly a once in a lifetime experience. We were so glad to have you there with us to connect Inspiring Leadership to Inspiring Music…

We had really great feedback from the client – thanks again and we hope to work with you again soon!