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About Kevin Asbjörnson - Pianist and Leadership Speaker:

Kevin Asbjörnson, MIM (master of international management), is a Leadership and Performance consultant, international keynote inspirational speaker, Yamaha® Artist, composer, contemporary pianist, and founder and principal recording artist of PianoOne LLC. He is a leading international authority on performing arts-based learning, and leveraging artistic process and creative competencies for unprecedented individual and organizational performance.

Kevin is the creator of Eight Keys to Inspired Leadership, a groundbreaking leadership paradigm that is the foundation of his keynote and Leadership and Performance experience, Artistry of Leadership - Creating Meaningful Connections. Artistry of Leadership is transforming the practice of leadership around the world and helping corporations and organizations to achieve unprecedented creativity, collaboration and productivity.

Kevin Asbjörnson serves as Performing Artist in Residence and Senior Adjunct Faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership and Banff Center-Leadership Development. His company, PianoOne LLC, was a finalist in the 2006 Colorado Business Committee for the Arts Innovation Award recognizing an inspired integration of business and arts that propels company achievement.

What Kevin Asbjörnson Talks About:

As a thought leader and innovator in the field of performing-arts based learning, Kevin has worked with top corporations and organizations in a wide variety of industries.

Kevin’s innovative keynote and Leadership and Development experience is:

Artistry of Leadership – Creating Meaningful Connections®
Ideal for all levels of management including Officers, Senior Executives, Managers, Mid-level Managers and First line Managers/Supervisors

With a Yamaha Grand Piano as the focal point and Kevin’s original piano music as the medium, Artistry of Leadership draws parallels between the competencies of performing artists and business leaders. Through this uniquely interactive experience involving thinking, journaling and dialog, Kevin awakens each participant’s Emotional Intelligence – the artistic competencies of reflection, insight and intentional listening. In doing so, he empowers the participants to apply their new-found perspective as artists in the workplace to achieve unprecedented synergy and teamwork, enhanced employee productivity, accelerated business performance and other breakthroughs for their enterprises. Together, the message, music and insights give participants the keys to inspired leadership that drives significant, long-term improvement in business performance. In short, Kevin reveals how to lead by inspiration, which sparks imagination that triggers innovation.

Music is an international language of emotion and the soul. Leaders, like music, must impact the emotion and soul of the people they are attempting to lead, influence or educate in order to evoke inspiration, imagination and innovation-the real deliverables and artistry of leadership
-Kevin Asbjörnson, MIM