Ensemble Accelerator

ENSEMBLE ACCELERATOR


Transform your teams into high-performing ensembles

Break silos and accelerate impact by leveraging the creative system 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 and team maturity technology to diagnose misalignments and friction points 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 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.​

ENSEMBLE ACCELERATOR PROCESS

ATTUNE FOR CULTURAL PEAK PERFORMANCE

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 FOR OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

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

  • Assess and optimize team’s operational strengths and workstyle

  • ​Integrate process objectives, OKRs, and KPIs by measurably aligning goals, process, and people capability​

EA QOFT™

revealS leadership operational workstyle dynamics and team cultural maturity

Critical for Due Diligence and Integration

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 cloud
central finance

A newly integrated 20-person corporate finance team supporting $60B operations needed to build trust and cohesion quickly while preparing to scale toward $150B+.


Solution: JLP’s EA QofT™ assessment revealed team alignment and attunement. We conducted an experiential, live workshop with a jazz trio focused on Big Ears and Ensemble Mindset.

Result: The EA QofT™ sharpened clarity of team maturity, which strengthened shared norms. The workshop provided a roadmap for success by fostering foundational trust and establishing a baseline for cohesive scaling.

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.

ORCHESTRATING STAKEHOLDERS

A group of VPs facing turbulent challenges needed to expand their aperture to manage and leverage multi-stakeholder tensions.



Solution: We provided our Stakeholder Ecosystem Mapping tool to help the VPs transition from bilateral negotiation into stakeholder orchestration.


Result: The mapping of stakeholder interconnections enabled VPs to identify gaps and opportunities in communication, influence, and information flow.

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

ENSEMBLE MATURITY LEVELS

HOW DOES your team FUNCTION today?

To navigate shifting conditions and disruption while achieving clarity and agility, teams need to accelerate alignment and attunement.

Level 1: nEED REHEARSAL

Firefighting dominates. Work is fragmented. Objectives undefined.

Level 2: FINDING THE GROOVE

Work more defined but unclear. Compliance-driven objectives.

Level 3: STEADY TEMPO

Proactive work with tactical objectives. Roles tied to metrics.

Level 4: SWINGIN' HARMONY

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

ALIGN & ATTUNE

3, 6, and 12-month engagements:

  • EA Quality of Teams™ assessment

  • Alignment & Attunement Data Analytics

  • In-person Workshop with a live jazz band

  • Custom Ensemble Accelerator Playbook

  • Monthly Virtual Sessions

Ensemble Accelerator tRIO

Our core ensemble quartet uses next-gen organization alignment and attunement 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

Co-Founder & Cultural Technologist

Jazz Leadership Project

Greg Thomas

Co-Founder & Cultural Technologist

Jazz Leadership Project

MARK PALMER

Workforce Analysis & Development