Third
Stream Leadership
Ut pulvinar
Experiential Executive Development
elit et augue.
With Orbert Davis’ CHICAGO JAZZ PHILHARMONIC
I have been previously exposed to
many of the leadership concepts
discussed … I have never, though,
seen the concepts displayed so
effectively in a very engaging and
inspirational format. I am a
skeptical person and was looking
for forced 'staging' or 'acting' by
Orbert and the musicians. I saw
only very sincere and real high
performing team dynamics that
brought concepts to life.
-McDonald’s executive participant
The Experience
Learning Goals
Who Should Participate
One-Day Program
For more information
Birdie Soti
Executive Director
Chicago Jazz Philharmonic
312-573-8932
[email protected]
Program Facilitators
Orbert Davis
Emmy Award-winning trumpeter, composer and educator, Orbert Davis is co-founder,
conductor and Artistic Director of CHICAGO JAZZ PHILHARMONIC, a 55+ piece jazzsymphonic orchestra. Davis is Clinical Associate Professor in UIC's Department of Theatre
and Music at the University of Illinois at Chicago. One of Chicago’s busiest and most sought
after musicians; Chicago Magazine has named Orbert Davis "Y2k Best Trumpeter in
Chicago" and "Chicagoan of the Year for 2002." Davis won an Emmy Award for the
composition and production of an original score for the national PBS documentary, “DuSable
to Obama: Chicago’s Black Metropolis.” In 2011, Davis was named Artist-In-Residence for
the Chicago Jazz Festival, an honor never before held by a Chicagoan.
Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Musicians
The CJP Double Quartet is comprised of highly trained and experienced professional
musicians. Four string players – trained in the classical, formal, hierarchical tradition – and
four jazz players – from a more democratic, improvisational culture, combine and flex their
musical styles. Some perform with acclaimed classical orchestras such as the Chicago
Sinfonietta and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Others lead their own jazz ensembles and
play with countless others. These talented musicians are also dedicated teachers of their craft.
The ensemble is always a new mix - some have played together often, others will be new to
this group. A diverse team in every sense, they bring different backgrounds, generations,
training, music traditions and performance styles. With Orbert’s expert, collaborative, caring
leadership, they swing.
Linda Rasins
Talent and business consultant Linda Rasins has dedicated her professional life to helping
leaders develop successful, sustainable organizations where people thrive and grow. Her
recent work has focused on innovations in talent development, assisting large corporations in
meeting the challenge of growing leaders prepared to take on an increasingly chaotic and
complex business environment in pace with approaching baby-boomer retirements. Linda
has a deep love for the music born out of the mix of African rhythms and soul with European
instruments and structures – jazz, blues, funk and rock, and most anything that comes from
New Orleans. This interest led her to Orbert Davis’ Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, where she
currently serves as Board Chair, embracing the challenge of growth in a shrinking
marketplace. Linda blogs about organizations and music at workplacejazz.com.
Orbert Davis’ Chicago Jazz Philharmonic
Jazz and classical music
thriving in perfect harmony
"Bristling innovation and
mainstream melody-making,
classical modernism and free
jazz improvisation — all these
elements, and others, converge
when CJP takes the stage."
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (CJP) was born out of an invitation to Artistic Director Orbert Davis from the
Jazz Institute of Chicago to “think big” when planning his appearance at the 2004 Chicago Jazz Festival. That
moment allowed Orbert to launch his dream of leading a Third Stream orchestra – blending and bending
classical and jazz music genres.
The 55-piece orchestra has performed at Chicago’s Millennium Park, The Auditorium Theater, and The North
Shore Center for the Performing Arts, inspiring a uniquely diverse audience of over 42,000 with Orbert’s
unique original compositions and new arrangements.
CJP’s mission is equally devoted to education: our Jazz Alive program brings early and continuous music
education, plus training in the life skills inherent in playing jazz, to Chicago Public School students who would
otherwise have no music in their school. Our summer jazz camp provides learning from master musicians on
the campus of our partner and host, UIC. CJP is incorporated as a not-for-profit 501(C)3.
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It’s Time.
Third Stream Leadership,
Arts-Based Development.
Unique Experience of New Leadership
Today’s business leaders face unprecedented
challenges in the face of accelerating complexity,
change, and new generations in the workforce.
Truly effective leadership is now characterized by
creativity
and
inspiration
balanced
with
operational efficiency. Development of these
competencies requires a “whole brain” approach
– engaging the sensing, intuitive, emotional right
brain with the logical and rational left brain.
The Third Stream Leadership experience offers
both a fresh look at what great leadership looks,
sounds and feels like -- and a learning experience
that engages participants aesthetically.
New Leadership Imperative
In a different world – that of performing arts
and arts education – Orbert Davis demonstrates
an alternative. His Chicago Jazz Philharmonic is
redefining music genres by bringing together
classical music culture and artists with jazz
aesthetics and style.
This requires masterful
collaborative leadership that deeply leverages
diversity. Orbert’s leadership blends the scoring,
instrumentation, and technical precision of
European-rooted classical music - with the
African-American-rooted
jazz
culture
of
improvisation, individual expression, and swing.
With flawless execution.
Learning From Music-Making
In its 2010 study of 1500 CEOs, IBM learned
By observing – sitting among the musicians as
that “creativity is the most important leadership
they rehearse and then perform a new piece of
competency for companies making their way
music,
through the accelerating complexity of the
experience new leadership live and in real time.
current business environment.” CEOs saw the
Via dialogue with Orbert and the musicians,
need for leaders to create cultures inspired by
participants hear about the leader’s thinking
vision and built on trust and authenticity in
and intentions and the impact on team
order to generate innovation that harnesses the
members. Taking it deeper, participants learn to
power of diverse perspectives. This is especially
play some music together, challenging their own
challenging where the remnants of command
risk comfort level, taking action in the face of
and control ”heads-down, impress-the-boss, stay
uncertainty, and reflecting on their own
safe” ways of working, thinking, and behaving
creativity. Individual action planning translates
are ingrained at all levels.
insights into leadership action.
participants
hear,
see,
feel,
“Very inspirational.”
and
“Genius.”
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