CASE STUDY... Deutsche Bank

Between 2007 and 2020 Columbia Business School in New York engaged Music & Management to provide The Orchestra Experience for Deutsche Bank’s newly appointed managers. 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