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
Lack of vision

  • 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

Group Synergy

ENSEMBLE ACCELERATOR PROCESS

ACTIVATE THE JAZZ MODEL TO SCALE ENSEMBLE FLOW

Agility that can scale. Ensemble flow for healthy peak performance requires a distinct system integrating business capability and cohesive talent: a playbook 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
ENSEMBLE MAPPING

Map and align your team's business capability into a seamless framework

  • Align your teams' strategic vision, value propositions, and planning with key stakeholders and service agreements

  • Integrate process objectives and KPIs into a seamless solutions framework measurably aligning goals, process, and people capability

  • Assess and optimize team's operational strengths and workstyle s

WE INTEGRATE YOUR KEY OBJECTIVES, KPIs, AND WORKSTYLEs with each team member represented INTO FOUR (4) CORE CAPABILITY ZONES:
IMPLEMENTATION

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)

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

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

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

MARKET COMPARISON FAQ

What is the key takeaway from your ensemble effectiveness system?

We don't train for performance-we build it. We utilize real-time alignment data and culture-first practices to drive lasting change where it matters most: innovating and executing day-to-day.

What makes the Ensemble Accelerator especially distinct?

We integrate a jazz model of performance excellence to accelerate operational agility and cultural fluency for relational harmony, unlike those who focus on one or the other.

Is this only for large teams or executive groups?

No. We work with teams of 5 to 500-cross- functional, remote, or hybrid. If aligned collaboration matters to your results, we can help.

What kind of results can we expect-and how soon?

Teams begin to feel improvements in clarity, flow, and focus within 30 days. And measurable gains in execution, innovation, and morale within 90.

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.

JEWEL KINCH-THOMAS
Jewel Kinch-Thomas

Co-Founder & Cultural Technologist

Jazz Leadership Project

Greg Thomas

Co-Founder & Cultural Technologist

Jazz Leadership Project

MARK PALMER
MARK PALMER

Workforce Analysis & Development

James Moss
James Moss

Director of Business Development