Ensemble Accelerator
ENSEMBLE ACCELERATOR
Transform your teams into high-performing ensembles that innovate and execute like entrepreneurs
Break silos and accelerate effectiveness by leveraging the flow and creativity of jazz
QUICK SUMMARY
ENSEMBLE ACCELERATOR
A high-performance incubator system for leaders to quickly turn teams into enterprising innovators, measurably connecting your strategy to day-to-day work.
Leadership today isn't about following a script—it's about knowing how to listen, adapt, and lead in the moment. Jazz is uniquely designed to address disorder and complexity.
Think "Y Combinator" for teams to play in harmony like a jazz ensemble.
Builds agility through jazz-informed practices to unlock high-quality execution, enabling healthy performance and adaptability.
Uses proprietary workstyle technology to diagnose misalignments and team breakdowns by linking goals to processes to people.
Grounded in the Jazz Leadership Project Model of a whole-brained, collaborative framework based on shared structure, ensemble creativity, and resilient flow.
WHY JAZZ?
TO MOVE FROM FRICTION TO HARMONY
Frequent internal feuds and conflicts
Lack of clarity in roles and decision-making
Resistance to innovation and new ideas
Resistance to innovation and new ideas
ENSEMBLE ACCELERATOR PROCESS
ACTIVATE ENSEMBLE FLOW
Agility that can scale. Ensemble flow for healthy peak performance requires a distinct system integrating business capability and cohesive talent: a roadmap to accelerate alignment and attunement.
ATTUNE FOR PEAK PERFORMANCE THROUGH ENSEMBLE MOBILIZING
What makes a great ensemble?
Playing collaboratively for high-performance harmony
Communicating through soulful, generative listening
Adapting readily to change and the unexpected
Handling conflict as a catalyst for innovation
Taking educated improvisational risks
ENSEMBLE ACCELERATOR: IMPLEMENTATION
ALIGN YOUR CAPABILITIES THROUGH ENSEMBLE MAPPING
Map and align your team’s business capability into a seamless framework
Assess and optimize team’s operational strengths and workstyle
Integrate process objectives and KPIs by measurably aligning goals, process, and people capability
EA QOFT™
A diagnostic and optimization service to reveal leadership operational workstyle dynamics and team cultural
maturity
Critical for Due Diligence
This report analyzes leadership team maturity, operational alignment, and provides data-driven improvement plans.
Valuable for Post-Investment Management
Minimize risks of strategic and operational misalignment, post-acquisition integration failure, key executive departure, and slippage in the value creation timeline.
Fundamental to Post-Acquisition Value Creation
Strengthen operational continuity and team dynamics through the jazz-informed leadership and ensemble methodology.
EA’s Operational and Cultural Technology Optimizes Human Capital
CLIENT SUCCESS STORIES
JAZZ INNOVATION TO TRANSFORMATION
Our jazz-inspired methodologies create authentic transformation across diverse organizational contexts. By applying principles of musical improvisation and ensemble thinking, leaders develop deeper listening skills, adaptability, and collaborative excellence.
Google BEAM
(Project Starline)
(Project Starline)
After 9 years of development, this revolutionary technology team discovered imbalances between key operational zones centering on strategic implementation and process improvement.
Solution: Our Antagonistic Cooperation approach leveraged operational tensions while Ensemble Mindset bolstered transparency of shared vision.
Result: The project leader observed "a noticeable shift in communications" and increased confidence in managing complexities through wise inquiry.
Director of America's Partnerships
Though self-identified as an Innovator, our assessment revealed his true strength as a Stabilizer with operational and tactical mastery. His challenge was to be more inspirational and cultivate better communication.
Solution: Our Tuning In Shedding Practice addressed his tendency to jump to solutions rather than listen fully.
Result: He transformed his approach to communication, seeing it as "a two-way, dynamic volley of ideas that is engaging and enthusiastic."
Professional Services Leader
A leader needed to fully embrace his unique background and strengths to inspire transformative change.
Solution: Through our Step Up to the Mic Shedding Practice, he developed a powerful "Your Sound" leadership statement.
Result: He gained "grounded confidence" in bringing all aspects of his cultural experience to his leadership style, with "new perspectives and ideas to experiment with."
Real world results
measurable impact on team performance
Our comprehensive approach delivers tangible improvements across the entire team lifecycle, from formation to high-performance states. These metrics reflect aggregated data from client implementations over the past 18 months.
37%
Productivity
Boost
Boost
Teams consistently deliver higher- quality outputs with reduced friction points in their workflow processes, leading to more efficient project completion timelines.
42%
Communication Effectiveness
Cross-functional teams experience clearer information exchange, resulting in fewer misunderstandings and faster decision-making across departments.
89%
Leadership
Alignment
Alignment
Executive stakeholders report stronger strategic alignment between business objectives and team capabilities, creating more cohesive organizational performance.
Testimonials
"A must-do for any leader who wants to create a high-performing, collaborative team."
John Dokes
Google Services, Central and West
"...not only enlightening but has also helped the leaders expand their horizons."
Wayne Robinson
Former Google School for Leaders Executive
"JLP and their wonderful band showed us new ways of collaboration using tension and opposition that was as entertaining as insightful. And through one of their exquisite improvisational sessions, they brought home how this work can open us to some truly special and meaningful ways of relating to and working with each other."
Brenda Sanders, PhD
Director, Blue Sky Leaders
"The Jazz Leadership Project was a fantastic conclusion to our Executive development workshop. The lessons were relevant, and Greg and Jewel were terrific facilitators who kept our leaders' attention with their expertise and humor. The activities reinforced the learning and kept people involved, engaged, and wanting more. And then there was the JAZZ… exceptional musicians! Wow!"
Kimberly Kleiman-Lee
for the Eaton Corporation
ENSEMBLE MATURITY LEVELS
Where is your team today?
To navigate shifting conditions and disruption while achieving clarity and agility, teams need to accelerate alignment and attunement.
Level 1: Event Driven
Firefighting dominates. Work is fragmented. Objectives undefined.
Level 2: Process Driven
Work more defined but unclear. Compliance-driven objectives.
Level 3: Capability Driven
Proactive work with tactical objectives. Roles tied to metrics.
Level 4: Value Driven
Holistic integration. Adaptable roles. Innovation-driven objectives.
ENGAGEMENTS
Health & Harmony Check
30-day Sprint:
Ensemble Maturity Diagnostics Report
Ensemble Success Workstyle Analysis
Half-Day Workshop
Map & Mobilize
3, 6, and 12-month engagements:
Health & Harmony check
In-person Multi-day Residency with a live jazz band
Custom Ensemble Accelerator Playbook
Monthly Virtual Sessions
Ensemble Success Expanded Report
Collaborative Excellence Diagnostics
Ensemble Accelerator quartet
Our core ensemble quartet uses next-gen organization alignment modeling and whole-brain, values-based cultural technology anchored in collaborative leadership.
Top corporate clients, such as Google, JPMorgan Chase, TD Bank, and Verizon leverage Ensemble Accelerator to strengthen business capability, performance agility, and cohesion.
Contact Us: gj@jazzleadershipproject.com
Jewel Kinch-Thomas
Co-Founder & Cultural Technologist
Jazz Leadership Project
Greg Thomas
Co-Founder & Cultural Technologist
Jazz Leadership Project
MARK PALMER
Workforce Analysis & Development
James Moss
Director of Business Development