Jammin Sessions

Jeff Prouty was inspired by John Kao, author of Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity, when the idea for Jammin Sessions was realized 22 years ago. Prouty read the book and heard the Harvard Business School professor speak at a conference. Here’s an excerpt from a Publishers Weekly review of Kao’s book:

“It took a Chinese American student listening to jazz and jamming with a group of African Americans at a private boarding school to internalize the polar tensions between musical score and improvisation and come up with a formula for creativity. Kao, now a professor at Harvard Business School, has been using the jamming metaphor to teach creative entrepreneurship for 14 years. In business, the score is not a musical theme but an idea, process or question that takes on new dimensions when bandied about by a group. This business version of jamming, Kao says, is the creative advantage that can give a company a competitive edge.”

Since then, The Prouty Project has hosted 10 “jams” a year on topics addressing virtually every aspect of business and life — topics that draw 10-year-old kids to 92-year-old grandparents and all ages in between to participate in energizing and thought-provoking discussions.

These interactive sessions are open to the public and held online the first Tuesday of each month (with the exception of January and July), from 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. via Zoom video conferencing. A $20 payment will be requested for each Jammin Session. All proceeds will be donated to The Prouty Project Stretch Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation.

2 steps to register:

– RSVP to The Prouty Project: Click “RSVP” on the list below for the Jammin session you’ll be attending.
– DONATE to the Stretch Fund: Please follow this link.

Your donation and RSVP will secure your spot!

We look forward to seeing you soon. You’ll leave inspired and stretched!

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