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Learning to conduct an orchestra goes beyond learning to read music or play an instrument.  It is about learning to conduct
your Self.  ---- Jeri Lynne Johnson

Conducting an orchestra requires self-discipline, self-confidence and passion for the process as well as the product.  It is one of the most elemental and visceral demonstrations of leadership you will ever encounter.   Because the art of conducting teaches you that you have no right to ask those things of others, if you do not first demand them from your self.  

Recognizing the value of this important life lesson, Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra Founder and Artistic Director, Jeri Lynne Johnson developed Orchestrating Leadership (OL) into a powerful resource for developing leadership competencies and attitudes for corporate leaders. Using the conductor’s podium as a heuristic device, Maestro Jeri Lynne Johnson and Black Pearl take a distinctive approach to helping executives, directors, managers and employee teams develop a more authoritative, agile, creative, authentic and holistic approach to leadership.

Orchestrating Leadership is also an engaging platform for facilitating the creative process in your organization to unearth and demonstrate new strategies to address a wide range of technical, operational and cultural challenges faced by organizations including

  • Growth and Right-sizing

  • Talent Management and Competencies

  • Globalization and Diversity

  • Complexity

  • Agility

  • Cross Functional Collaboration

  • Information Overload

  • Strategic Thinking and Problem Solving

  • Innovation

  • Customer Service

  • Monitoring Performance

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Jeri is an award-winning conductor who has led orchestras around the world and collaborated with artists from all genres including Jay-Z and the Roots among others.

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Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra was established in 2008 as an innovative model for the 21st-century American orchestra. This National Endowment for the Arts award-winning ensemble is the nation's most diverse professional orchestra. 

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